Books - "history"
Showing 43901 to 43920 of 44357 results.
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
Fra Angelico at San Marco
Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 338pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sm ex-libris label to base of ffep, moderate foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges, minro tanning to spine, sl chafing & soiling/foxing)
PUBLISHER: BCA / Book Club Associates 1993
KEYWORDS: art history Fra Angelico San Marco Dominican priory Italy Italian religion religious
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
The Usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson and his Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780-1841
Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt initials to front board, printed eps, frontispiece, xiii + 718pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning & light wrinkling, light to moderate creasing to edges, minor chafing)
PUBLISHER: Blubber Head Press 2001
KEYWORDS: history Jorgen Jorgenson biography biographies memoir Iceland Van Diemen's Land Tasmania
The New Zealand Turf Register 1925-26, Containing a Full Report of the Season's Racing in New Zealand
Duodecimo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & equine illus to front board, xii + other mixed pagination, VG (moderate bruising & rubbing to extrems, moderate fading to spine & front board, moderate rubbing & staining to rear board, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing & creasing to prelims, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: The Christchurch Press Company 1926
KEYWORDS: New Zealand turf registers past years equine horse racing horses history
The Last of the Windjammers (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, imperial octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, blind stamp lettering to front boards, maps/illus to eps, frontispieces, vol 1- xiv + 518pp, vol 2- xv + 448pp, illus, folding designs, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, minor scuff/chip to base of spine on vol 2, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd 1963-66
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history windjammers ships Basil Lubbock
The Photography of John Richard Morris: An Appreciation of his Contribution to New Zealand Portrait and View Photography in the Nineteenth Century
Oblong quarto, spiralbound illus light card wrappers with french flaps, xiv + 44pp, illus, VG (light creasing & moderate tanning to front cover, moderate vertical crease & moderate tanning to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art history photos photography Hardwicke Knight John Richard Morris
Jim Pike, the Master: His Life and Times 1892-1969
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, HOLOGRAPHY LETTER FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, unpaginated prelims + 158pp, illus/photos, VG- (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate teo heavy water staining & soiling to base of spine & boards, sl foxing to page edges, moderate water staining to front eps) in d/w, VG- (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & edges, moderate water satining to top edge of front cover)
PUBLISHER: Alan J Chittick 2001
KEYWORDS: signed Alan J Chittick horse racing sport equine history Jim Pike jockeys biography biographies memoir
Scarlet: Clarrie Grimmett, Test Cricketer
Super octavo, green heavy boards, xi + 271pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, 1.5cm closed tear to base of rear, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: The Cricket Publishing Company 2008
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket cricketers Clarrie Grimmett biography biographies memoir
New Zealand Rough Riders: In the South African War 1899-1902 (Eight Edition)
8TH EDITION, quarto, illus light card wrappers, brown & white lettering to spine, 274pp, illus, Near FINE (sl creasing to cover corners)
PUBLISHER: Richard Stowers 2015
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history South Africa African rough riders soldiers
The Master's Touch: Racing With Etienne de Mestre, Winner of Five Melbourne Cups
Quarto, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 224pp, illus, Near FINE (sl creasing to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Keith Paterson 2008
KEYWORDS: sport history equine horseracing horses horse racing etienne Livingston de Mestre
Rakiura: A History of Stewart Island New Zealand
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xx + 415pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, moderate general soiling)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1940
KEYWORDS: signed first editions New Zealand Rakiura Stewart Island Basil Howard history
Standing Upright Here: New Zealand in the Nuclear Age 1945-1990
SIGNED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, green & white/black lettering to spine, 621pp, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges & spine, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: signed Malcolm Templeton New Zealand modern history nuclear oceania France foreign relations
The Story of Two Campaigns: Official War History of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment, 1914-1919
FACSIMILE REPRINT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 265pp, maps to rear, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: N & M Press (modern facsimile reprint)
KEYWORDS: FACSIMILE REPRINT military history New Zealand Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war campaigns