Books - "history"
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Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum
Octavo stapled light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Not Stated
KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel museum guides museums Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum history
The Nature of Alexander
Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1983
KEYWORDS: ancient history Alexander the Great biography biographies Greek Mary Renault
History of Kaitangata 1800s-2004
Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 556pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges & eps, ffep glued down to front pastedown, minor wrinkling & soiling to title page) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing/wrinkling to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Print (Printer) N/D (c.2004?)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand rural communities history goldmining Kaitangata south island
The Great Warbow: From Hastings to the Mary Rose
Ex-library, quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 538pp, illus, VG (jacket firmly affixed to boards- could be carefully removed if desired, usual library markings & scuffs, moderate soiling to page edges & eps, occasional crscking to gutters) in d/w, VG (affixed to boards, minor creasing & fading with soiling)
PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing 2005
KEYWORDS: history weapons weaponry bows arrows warbow longbow warfare combat
The Earliest Wheeled Transport: From the Atlantic Coast to the Caspian Sea
Quarto, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt publisher's motif to front board, 272pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl fading to board edges, light to moderate soiling to page edges & eps, light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, odd makeshift tape repairs to internal sides, moderate creasing to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1983
KEYWORDS: transport history wheels wheeled wagons carts horses vehicles ancient iron age bronze age
The Future of Architecture Since 1889
Heavy quarto, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine & boards, illus prelims, 527pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges, minor soiling)
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 2012
KEYWORDS: architecture buildings design history
The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
Super octavo, black heavy boards, yellow lettering to spine, xxxvi + 732pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to boards, light soiling to page edges- otherwise still a tidy copy) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Allworth Press 2001
KEYWORDS: philosophy history historical Greek Indian Greece India criticism
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, to page edges stained red- faded, xiv + 465pp, VG (light scuffing/chafing to board edges & extrems, 1cm crack to top of rear hinge, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in reversible d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, moderate foxing/soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1967
KEYWORDS: literature philosophy history Ibn Khaldun
Academies and Society in Southern Sung China
Ex-library, super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, x + 309pp, VG (minimal library markings, boards sl warped, light tanning & soiling to page edges, minor scuff to front pastedown, moderate creasig to top edges of pgs 195-208, jacket affixed to rear board) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & peeling to edges, sl soiling, rear flap affixed to rear board)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 1999
KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity China southern Sung dynasty academic education
The History of Changi
Octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine, xviii + 132pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl creasing to cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Changi University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: southeast Asia Changi history military Singapore Henry Probert
Bruce McLaren: Racing Car Constructor
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 264pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Begg & Allen 2019
KEYWORDS: automotive motorsport Bruce McLaren car racing high performance history biography biographies memoir
Can-Am 50th Anniversary: Flat Out With North America's Greatest Race Series 1966-74
Lg quarto, illus heavy boards, orange lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 256pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extremw, light chafing & soiling to boards) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Motorbooks / Quarto Publishing 2016
KEYWORDS: automotive motorsports North America can-am race history car racing
The Road to Monaco: My Life in Motor Racing
SIGNED, square super octavo, green heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, 448pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Denley Publications 2015
KEYWORDS: signed Howden Ganley motorsports automotive history autobiography autobiographies memoir f1 formula one 1 New Zealand Zealanders
The Venture of Islam (3 Vol Set)
3 VOL SET, super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & coloured lettering to spines, mixed pagination, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press N/D (c.2010s?)
KEYWORDS: history Islam Islamic culture empires
The Second World War, Illustrated & Abridged
Heavy folio, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine & front board, 304pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Grange Books 2003
KEYWORDS: Winston S Churchill military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History
Imperial octavo, illus stiff card covers, red lettering to spine & front cover, illus prelims, xii + 369pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to cover edges/extrems)
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2021
KEYWORDS: urban hobbies sport skateboarding history culture development
Take Me to the Nevis
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, 323pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl curling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Dunstan Publications 2020
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Central Otago Nevis Valley goldmining history