Books - "history"
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Forgotten Ships: Unfinished Voyages to New Zealand1820-1925
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, white text to spine & wrapper, illus prelim, 204pp, illus, VG+ (slight creasing to edges of wrapper & hinges, v slight soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Otago Maritime Society 2018
KEYWORDS: new zealand colonisation colonialism ship voyage immigration shipwreck shipping disaster tragedy nautical maritime history
Compendium of Australasian Merchant Ships 1831-2008: A listing of non sail-powered Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific merchant ships
Oblong super octavo, illus light card wrappers, brown text to wrapper, tan text to spine, 316pp, VG (light to moderate creasing to wrapper, light soiling & fading to wrapper, light soiling 7 tanning to page edges, previous owner's label adhered to front inside cover & title page)
PUBLISHER: Nautical Association of Australia Inc 2008
KEYWORDS: merchant ships history australian new zealand shipping nautical south pacific robert bob tompkins
The Adventures of Kimble Bent: A Story of WIld Life in the New Zealand Bush
Small octavo, brown buckram boards, black illus & text to boards, black text to spine, xxi + 336pp, illus, G (heavy scuffing & soiling to boards, 8cm split to cloth along spine hinge, moderate insect damage to spine & boards, several gutters cracked, moderate to heavy soiling & foxing to pages, binding shaky, previous owner's name to pastedown & fep)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1911
KEYWORDS: kimble bent bushman history aotearoa new zealand maoriland colonial settler
The China Navigation Company Limited: A Pictorial History 1872-1992
Oblong imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, blind stamped lettering to front board, illus title page, illus prelims, unpaginated prelims + 119pp, illus+folding map, VG+ (light bruising, soiling & rubbing to boards & spine, light foxing to page edges & first & last page, previous owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w VG+ (v slight creasing to edges, light soiling to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Butterfield & Swire, John Swire & Sons 1992
KEYWORDS: china navigation company chinese maritime nautical history trade relations
An Accidental Utopia? Social mobility & the foundations of an egalitarian society, 1880-1940
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, yellow & white text to spine, 332pp, illus/graphs & charts, Nr FINE (v slight rubbing to wrapper corners, slight tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: new zealand political history egalitarian society gender relations social mobility class erik olssen clyde griffen frank jones systemic analysis dunedin urban social structure
Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarum Sive Originum; Libri XX; Tomus I [Libros i-x] & Tomus II [Libros xi --xx]
TWO VOLUME SET, TEXT IN LATIN, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, mixed pagination, VG+ (v slight rubbing to edges, light soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading & soiling to jacket, volume 1's jacket has 1cm closed tear to front & 2cm open tear to rear, previous bookseller's label residue to rear)
PUBLISHER: The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1985
KEYWORDS: text in latin isidore of seville isidori hispalensis episcopi history roman latin language grammar study
A History of Croydon Bush: From the Past to the Present (1856-1988)
Imperial octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, viii + 248pp, illus, Nr FINE (v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w VG+ (slight rubbing to edges, v slight soiling & fading to jacket)
PUBLISHER: The Gore Publishing Co 1988
KEYWORDS: paula dickie first edition croydon bush south island southland new zealand history gore
Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine
Super octavo, grey light card wrappers, blue text to wrapper & spine, ix + 561pp, VG+ (slight rubbing to wrapper edges & spine, v slight soiling to wrapper & page edges)
PUBLISHER: J C B Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 2001
KEYWORDS: jewish literacy roman palestine levant middle eastern history catherine hezser
Gallia Narbonensis; with a chapter on Alpes Maritimae: Southern France in Roman Times
Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 370pp, illus, VG (light to moderate colour loss to edges of boards where jacket had previously been affixed, v slight rubbing to edges of boards & spine, moderate soiling to page edges) in d/w VG- ( v slight rubbing to edges, moderate staining from boards to inside of jacket, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: B T Batsford Ltd 1988
KEYWORDS: gallia narbonensis alpes maritimae french southern france history roman empire europe a l f rivet
Two Maori Stories from Marlborough
Quarto staplebound, yellow light card wrappers, black illus & text to wrapper, 41pp, illus, VG- (moderate soiling to wrapper, light rubbing to edges, light tanning & soiling to pages)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury Maori Studies 1 & Department of Maori, University of Canterbury 1983
KEYWORDS: aotearoa new zealand history maori histories marlborough tuiti matikanara melodie watson margaret orbell
The Wentworth Indenture
LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION, small octavo, tan buckram boards, black text & border to white section on front board, 21pp, VG (v slight scuffing to board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages, previous owner's name in pencil to fep) in d/w (light soiling, chipping & tanning to glassine jacket, blurlb affixed to front flap of jacket)
PUBLISHER: The Nag's Head Press 1979
KEYWORDS: wentworth indenture colonisation colonialism land deals new south wales company new zealand aotearoa te wai pounamu history maori pakeha relations
Zosimus: New History, a Translation with Commentary
Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, red & black text to spine & wrapper, xv + 263pp, VG (moderate soiling, rubbing & creasing to wrapper, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Australian Assosciation for Byzantine Studies, Byzantina Australiensia 2, University of Melbourne 1984
KEYWORDS: byzantine studies byzantina zosimus history byzantium ancient texts
Caput and Colonate: Towards a History of Late Roman Taxation
Super octavo, red heavy boards, black text to spine, unpaginated prelims + 165pp, VG+ (slight brusing to spine, v slight rubbing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w G+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to jacket, moderate chipping & creasing to edges, light to moderate fading & 8cm closed tear to spine of jacket)
PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 1974
KEYWORDS: late roman taxation rome empire republic tax economic history
'Above the City': A History of Otago Boys' High School 1863-2013
SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, imperial octavo, dark blue heavy boards, silver gilt school crest to front board, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 440pp, illus, Nr FINE (v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light chafing to jacket, light rubbing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Otago Boys' High School Foundation 2013
KEYWORDS: otago boys' boys high school schooling education history new zealand dunedin roy sweetman
The Impact of Christianity on the Maori People
SIGNED, DATED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, tan heavy boards, black text to front board & spine, 39pp, VG ( light to moderate soiling & chafing to boards, light foxing to boards & page edges)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1955
KEYWORDS: maori religion christianity colonisation new zealand aotearoa history christian belief a w reed
Our Memories, Our Stories: Teviot Valley Central Otago
Quarto, illus light card wrappers, white text to spine & wrappers, illus inside covers, illus title page, 240pp, illus, VG+ (light chafing to wrapper, slight rubbing to edges of wrapper, v slight soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times Print 2011
KEYWORDS: teviot new zealand history central otago family settlement colonisation colonial
An Account At Large of the Right Honourable the Earl of Danby's Arguments at the Court of King's-Bench at Westminster, Upon his Lordship's Motion for Bail, The 27th day of May, Term. Pasch. 1682
Record of the trial of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds (prev. Earl of Danby), impeached as treasurer in the fallout from the Popish Plot, denied habeas corpus, and held in the Tower of London until 1684. Later known as one of the Immortal Seven who invited William of Orange to depose King James II. Quarto, string bound, in light card protective wrapper, 28pp, VG+ (light to moderate tanning & soiling to pages, light foxing to pages, 2cm closed tear to lower edge of title page) in d/w VG+ (light creasing to edges of protective wrapper)
PUBLISHER: London, Printed for Charles Mearne, 1682
KEYWORDS: english british history popish plot thomas osborne first duke of leeds immortal seven anglican roman catholic king james ii
Brett's Historical Series: Early History of New Zealand; from Earliest Times to 1840 & from 1840-1845
Quarto, red heavy boards, half bound in brown leather, gilt text, illus & borders to spine & boards, page edges speckled red, unpaginated prelims, + 728pp + xliii, extensive illus, VG- (frontispiece missing & large section of panoramic view of new plymouth missing [all others present], heavy soiling, scuffing & fading to boards & spine, spine lightly cocked, front& rear gutters fully cracked, heavy soiling to pastedowns & prelims/terminals, moderate to heavy foxing to pages, page 15-16 loose, previous owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: H Brett, Printer and Publisher, Auckland 1890
KEYWORDS: new zealand colonial history colonisation early aotearoa brett's historical series
Windows on a Chinese Past; Volume 4; Don's 'Roll of Chinese'
Quarto, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 300pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to board edges, light soiling to page edges, light tanning to page edges, small section cut from top corner of fep) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1993
KEYWORDS: dunedin chinese immigration james ng otepoti cantonese mandarin speakers early new zealand aotearoa history gold rush goldfields
Aphrodisias and Rome: Documents from the excavation of the Theatre at Aphrodisias conducted by Professor Kenan T Erim, together with related texts
Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xviii + 214pp + xxxii plates, illus/diagrams + folding charts [complete], VG+ (v slight bruising to spine, light soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light chipping & creasing to edges, light to moderate soiling to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, Journal of Roman Studies Monograph No. 1 1982
KEYWORDS: aphrodisias excavation joyce reynolds roman history theatre