Books - "history"
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The Inchiquin Manuscripts
Super octavo, red buckram boards, silver gilt lettering & rule to spine, ix + 749pp, VG (light fading & rubbing/scuffing to spine, sl bruising & scuffing to board corners, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional ink & pencil markings to margins- unobtrusive)
PUBLISHER: Irish Manuscripts Commission 1961
KEYWORDS: O'Brien family estate Earls of Inchquin Ireland Irish papers history historical
Arabian Highlands
Super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board, xvi + 771pp, illus, folding map to rear pocket, VG (light fading to spine, light scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor creasing to ffep, minor cracking/tearing to gutter at title page, moderate cracking to gutter at index, minro soiling to rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1952
KEYWORDS: geography travel journeys history historical Arabia Arabian literature H St J B Philby exploration
Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition 1350-1450
Super octavo, green illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xii + 185pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing to spine & covers/edges, sl chafing to covers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press N/D (c.2000s?)
KEYWORDS: art history Italy Italian humanist composition paintings painting
Great Knock: Sim's Australians v Canterbury, Played at Lancaster Park, Christchurch 27, 28 February, 2 March 1914
LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, SIGNED BY PRINTER/PUBLISHER, square duodecimo, brown buckram boards, brown lettering to title plate on front board, illus title page, 67pp, Near FINE (sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & soiling/staining, sl foxing)
PUBLISHER: The Nag's Head Press 1978
KEYWORDS: signed limited numbered editions sport history cricket matches Australia New Zealand
Outlines of Scripture Geography and History: Illustrating the Historical Portions of the Old and New Testaments
LACKS FEP, sm octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind stamp illus/decoration to spine & boards, printed eps, vi + 372pp, illus/maps- not counted presumed all present, VG- (moderate chipping & bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate chafing & light soiling to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning & soilling to page edges, ffep mssing, moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals & sporadically throughout, pgs 111-130 partially detached but present, occasional cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 1853
KEYWORDS: bible old new testament geography history scripture religion religious
Te Kooti Rikirangi: General and Prophet
FIRST EDITION, octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 196pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate fading to spine, minor creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Collins Bros & Co 1966
KEYWORDS: Te Kooti Rikirangi New Zealand Maori history outlaws activists first editions
Journal de James Morrison, Second Maitre a Bord de la Bounty
TEXT IN FRENCH, super octavo, grey light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, xxiii + 200pp, VG- (moderate to heavy staining & light to moderate creasing to spine & covers, minor tanning & foxing to page edges, a lot of page edges remain uncut, moderate staining to rear eps & prelims, moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes 1966
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH maritime history mutiny HMS Bounty James Morrison second mate journal diary
Alvis Three Litre in Detail: TA21 to TF21 1950-67
Quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 176pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tnning, sl fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Herridge & Sons 2003
KEYWORDS: British motor motoring industry Alvis design engineering classic vintage cars automotive history 3 three litre liter
The German National Railway in World War II
Quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, marbled eps, 192pp, illus, photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Schiffer Publishing 2008
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 German Germany transport rail national railway
His Majesty's Grant of the Island of St Helena to the East India Company, 16th December 1673
ASSOCIATION COPY- Dame Alison was a constitutional lawyer, quarto, red faux leather heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, unpaginated prelims + 141pp, illus, beautifully lettered presentation ink inscription to Dame Alison Quentin-Baxter to ffep, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Wanderer 1999
KEYWORDS: St Helena charters royal charter East India Company history
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu, Volume Two
THIS VOL ONLY, UNCOMMON IN HARDCOVER, quarto, dark blue heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to spine & front board, 440pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history Ngai Tahu iwi tribes
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
Super octavo, mauve & blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 177pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading to spine & board edges/extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (minor tanning to spine, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges & flaps/folds)
PUBLISHER: The John Hopkins University Press N/D (c.1980?)
KEYWORDS: history Italy Italian heresy heretics peasants Friuli
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xiv + 208pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 1999
KEYWORDS: history illegal drug trade drugs opium narcotics Asia trafficking
Catching Nature in the Act: Reaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Super octavo, grey buckram boards, green gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 275pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2014
KEYWORDS: natural history 18th eighteenth century Reaumur naturalists
White Wings: Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade, 1850 to 1900, Volume I
THIS VOL ONLY, sm quarto, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 365pp + index to rear, illus, VG+ (light bruising/scuffing to extrems, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ light fading to spine, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1976
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history maritime nautical sailing
The Decisive Battles of the Western World and Their Influence Upon History (3 Vol Set)
3 VOL SET, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges stained red, mixed pagination, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedowns of all vols, prev. owner's catalogue numbers to ffeps of all vols also) in d/w, VG (price clipped, minor creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling, minor foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1957
KEYWORDS: military history battles warfare western world west
Twenty Years After: The Battlefields of 1914-18: Then and Now (Supplementary Volume)
SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt & black lettering to spine, gilt lettering & black lettering & illus to front board, viii + 800pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional minor foxing/soiling throughout, moderate cracking to gutter at title page & sporadically throughout, binding a little sloppy)
PUBLISHER: George Newnes Limited N/D
KEYWORDS: post-war history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 battlefields military locations
German Industry on the Warpath
HOLOGRAPH LETTER FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, sm octavo, illus stapled light card wrappers, printed inside covers, 64pp, VG- (minor closed tearing to base of spine area, minor creasing & moderate soiling/foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, newspaper clipping tipped in to inside front cover, light to moderate foxing to inside covers, minor ink markings to margins throughout, v sm hole to pg9)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co N/D (c.1942)
KEYWORDS: anti-Nazi war pamphlets Germany nazi German politics political economy industry history
The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & covers, viii + 157pp, VG (sl creasing/curling to cover edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate underlining & annotation in pencil- otherwise still a very tidy copy)
PUBLISHER: University of Michigan Press 2015
KEYWORDS: English drama literature stage plays theatre theater history criticism
Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, red gilt lettering to spine, x + 331pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2005
KEYWORDS: history weather meteorology Victorian era science forecasting forecasts 19th nineteenth century