Books - "history"
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Old Marlborough, or, The Story of a Province
Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 478pp + ads to rear, illus, VG+ (light bruising & fading to spine extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges- some minor loss, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1976 (Hart and Keeling 1900)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history T Lindsay Buick Marlborough
Some Further Recollections of a Happy Life - Selected From the Journals of Marianne North
FIRST EDITION, FIRST REPRINT, octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 316pp, illus, VG (sl fading to spine, minor bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate tanning to prelims & terminals, occasional cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1893 (First reprint)
KEYWORDS: first editions (first reprint) Marianne North nature botany botanists journals diaries history historical biology biologists
Anglo-Saxon Superiority: To What It Is Due (Second Edition in English, Translated From the Tenth French Edition)
SECOND ENGLISH EDITION, ex-library, octavo, brown buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, deckled page edges, xl + 427pp + catalogues to rear, G+ (heavy cracking & staining to spine- spine partially detached/flapping, heavy staining to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, moderate amount of library stamps, heavy annotation & underlining to text, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, light to moderate tanning & foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: The Leadenhall Press 1899
KEYWORDS: English speaking people anglo-saxon anthropology social history French
Last Days in New Guinea, Being Further Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate
FIRST EDITION, 2x FOLDING MAPS, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 287pp + catalogue to rear, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & extrems, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl occasional cracking to gutters, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: John Lane the Bodley Head 1922
KEYWORDS: first editions New Guinea history magistrates Captain C A W Monckton
The Great Boer War (Third Impression)
ORIGINAL BINDING, ALL 5 FOLDING MAPS PRESENT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 552pp, VG (moderate tanning to spine, moderate chipping to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners, light fading to board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to front & rear gutters, prev. owner's details in ink to prelims, light to moderate patches of foxing throughout, folding maps have minor creasing & foxing but still tidy)
PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder, & Co 1900
KEYWORDS: Arthur Conan Doyle Boer war history accounts maps 19th nineteenth century
Caithness Originals
Octavo, purple buckram boards, black lettering to spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 188pp, illus, VG- (heavy fading/discolouration to spine, minor insect damage to front hinge of spine, moderate to heavy fading & soiling to boards, moderate bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light to moderate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Wick: W Rae 1906
KEYWORDS: Scotland Scotsmen Scottish history heritage portraits John Horne
The Last of the Ngati Mamoe: The Wild People of the New Zealand Mountain and Bush
FIRST EDITION, loosely enclosed single page signed holograph letter of publishing interest from the author to the publisher A H Reed, octavo, maroon stiff card covers, lg illus plate to front cover, printed inside covers, frontispiece, 15pp, illus/plates, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1936
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history early settlers Captain James Cook Maori tribes bush countryside iwi first editions
The Life and Times of Sir Julius von Haast: Explorer, Geologist, Museum Builder
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, blu etextured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxi + 1142pp, illus, folding maps to rear, VG+ (minor bruising to extrems, light soiling to spine & boards/edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light insect damage to front pastedown, minor wrinkling & foxing to folding maps at rear) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy chipping & loss/tape repairs to edges, light tanning & moderate wrinkling to spine- minor loss, moderate tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: H F von Haast 1948
KEYWORDS: New Zealand early settlers pioneers Sir Julius von Haast biography biographies memoir history first editions
Mahinarangi (The Moon-Glow of the Heavens)
FIRST EDITION, A NICE COPY! Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to front cover, ix + 46pp, illus, VG (light fading & soiling to spine, light creasing/curling to spine, light soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, rear gutter separated at staples)
PUBLISHER: J C Ekdahl 1945
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori Tainui people Pei te Hurinui literature history heritage culture first editions
Reminiscences of Earliest Canterbury (Principally Banks' Peninsula) and Its Settlers
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 215pp, VG- (heavy cracking & fraying to spine hinges- still firmly affixed, moderate to heavy scuffing & bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owners' details to ffep, light foxing throuhgout)
PUBLISHER: The Christchurch Press Company 1915
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history Canterbury Banks Peninsula early settlers pioneers
Forty Years in New Zealand: Including a Personal Narrative, an Account of Maoridom, and of the Christianization and Colonization of the Country
INC. FOLDING MAP, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & black & gilt illus to front board, frontispiece, viii + 503pp, illus, VG- (heavy cracking to rear hinge & spine extrems, light to moderate tanning to spine, moderate scuffing & bruising to board corners, moderate soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, ffep glued dow to front pastedown, light tanning & foxing/soiling to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, moderate foxing throughout, moderate cracking to rear gutter & sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1878
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history early settlers pioneers Rev James Buller religion Christianity
A History of Canterbury (3 Vol Set)
3 VOL SET, octavo, burgundy buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, printed/maps at eps of vols 2&3, mixed pagination, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, occasional sl cracking at gutters) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges/extresm, light fading/tanning to spines, minor soiling)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1957-71
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury early settlers pioneers development
The Maori: Yesterday and To-Day
FIRST EDITION, TIPPED IN PLATE SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xii + 266pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, G+ (heavy chipping & loss to spine- heavy but tidy archival repairs, moderate creasing & chipping to edges with archival repairs, moderate tanning to spine, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1930
KEYWORDS: first editions signed James Cowan New Zealand history Maori culture heritage
Rural Rides, in Two Volumes (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, octavo, blue & black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges stained orange- faded, printed eps, vol 1- xii + 320pp, vol 2- v + 335pp + catalogue to rear, VG (sl bruising to extrems, heavy soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges- otherwise still a tidy set) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spines, sl bruising to spine of vol 1, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Everyman's Library / J M Dent & Sons 1957-66
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature William Cobbett England Everyman's Library series rural countryside historical history
The Coming of the Maori to Ao-tea-roa
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, green stiff card covers, lg illus title plate to front cover, printed inside covers, frontispiece, 23pp, illus, VG (light bruising & soiling to covers- sl tanning also, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing throughout, prev owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1934
KEYWORDS: signed first editions New Zealand history Maori A W Reed
Romance of the Rail: Through the Heart of New Zealand
Octavo, illus stapled light card covers, 65pp, illus, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate tanning to covers, sm gouge to rear cover, moderate rusting to staples, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor tearing at front gutter to staples, prev. owner's name in ink to title page, author's signature tipped in to verso of intro page, light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: W A G Skinner, Govt Printer 1928
KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport history rail railways trains James Cowan
Japanese Terror in China
FIRST EDITION, octavo, illus light card covers, 222pp, VG- (heavy creasing/scuffing & fading/discolouration to spine, moderate creasing & tanning/foxing to covers, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, occasional minor cracking to gutters, light foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Thacker, Spink & Co 1938
KEYWORDS: first editions military war history Japan China Japanese Chinese
With the Cameliers in Palestine
Octavo, blue buckram boards, dark blue lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, frontispiece, 244pp, illus, G+ (heavy cracking & soiling to spine, moderate scuffing to board extrems, heavy soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, prev, ownership markings to front pastedown, heavy scuff/paper residue to ffep, moderate cracking to gutters, some terminal pages may be missing, light to moderate soiling & foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1938
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history cameliers mounted imperial camel brigade Palestine middle east
The Waking Dream: Fantasy and the Surreal in Graphic Art 1450-1900
UK FIRST EDITION, quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt publisher's motif to front board, 224pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, patches of moderate foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1975
KEYWORDS: first UK editions fantasy surrealism art history appreciation
Travel USA Portfolio for 1960 - Visit USA Year
Oblong quarto, glossy heavy boards, gilt lettering to blue buckram spine, numbered tabs to page fore-edges, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, moderate chafing/soiling & tanning to boards, moderate tanning & light soiling to page edges & eps, occasional adhesion to page top corners)
PUBLISHER: National Association of Travel Organizations 1960
KEYWORDS: travel history USA America United States reference