Books - "history"
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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
Air Whaler
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 243pp, illus, VG+ (light scuffing to extrems, sl chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor tanning & soiling to eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional sl foxing/soiling throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/loss to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Smapson Low, Marston & Co 1949
KEYWORDS: aviation history Antarctica south pole Antarctic
The Story of the Solomons
Octavo, green heavy boards, black lettering to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG- (light bruising to spine & board corners, light soiling to rear board, minor insect damage to front hinge, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to front gutter- ffep potentially removed, light tanning & creasing to prelims, occasional sl foxing throughout) in d/wm VG (moderate creasing & tanning to spine & cover edges/folds at flaps, other minor soiling, 2cm closed tear to top edge of front cover, other sl closed tearing/chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: D O M Publications 1967
KEYWORDS: pacific islands Solomon Islands history colonialism anthropology geopolitics
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd; Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History: Volume III
THIS VOL ONLY, sm octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering to spine (rubbed off) with raised bands also, frontispiece, 400pp, illus, G+ (heavy cracking to front & rear hinges/gutters- front board shaky, leather peeling from front board, other moderate rubbing & soiling/chafing to boards & spine, heavy tannin & soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, moderate foxing & soiling throughout, illus opp. pg61 has heavy creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Printed by A Reilly, for Edw. Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork Hill, M,DCC,XLII (1742)
KEYWORDS: antiquarian books leather bindings natural history Noel Antoine Pluche historical
Maori and Pakeha in North Otago
MISBOUND- PAGE BLOCK UPSIDE DOWN, octavo, illus stiffened covers, black lettering to spine, 156pp + index to rear, illus, VG- (moderate rust staining to spine, heavy soiling & moderate tanning to covers & page edges, light foxing & soiling throughout)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed N/D (c.1940s)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori pakeha North Otago history early settlers
The Victorian Church (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges stained blue, vol 1- x + 606pp, vol 2- viii + 510pp, VG (minor rubbing & bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to boards of vol 1, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, moderate foxing to eps of vol 1, prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps of both vols, occasional cracking to gutters throughout, occasional foxing throughout, binding a little sloppy) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1966-70
KEYWORDS: history religion religious church churches Victorian era 19th nineteenth century England English
Piranesi: Antichita Romane Vedute di Roma
TEXT IN ITALIAN, square imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, brown/green lettering to spine, 172pp, illus, VG (moderate creasing to cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate foxing to half title page & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta 2000
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN ITALIAN antiquity ancient Rome landscapes scenery art Piranesi history historical
The Eagle and the Spade: Archaeology in Rome During the Napoleonic Era
Super octavo, brown heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xxviii + 328pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl tanning to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: ancient Rome Roman archeology archaeology antiquity history historical Napoleonic era early 19th nineteenth century
Religions of Rome (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & grey/brown lettering to spines, vol 1- xxiv + 454pp, vol 2- xiv + 416pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing to spines & cover edges, light chafing tpo covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear of both vols, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: ancient Rome Roman religion religions history
A History of the Ranfurly Telephone Exchange 1922-1987
Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to front board, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (sl chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Ross K McGrath 1992
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Ranfurly telephone exchange communication
Maniototo Inquests 1869-1925
Quarto, spiral bound illus light card wrappers, grey lettering to front cover, (6) + 79pp, illus, VG+ (sl soiling & creasing/curling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Hazel Harrison 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Maniototo mining accidents research inquests
A History of Greek Literature
Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, blue lettering on silver gilt backing to spine, top page edges stained red, xviii + 921pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate staining to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (moderate foxing, light to moderate creasing & chipipng to edges, sm pencil annotation to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1966
KEYWORDS: Greek literature history criticism
The Invention of Jane Harrison
Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt face illus to front board, xiii + 229pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board corners, sl soiling to page edges, moderate pencil annotaiton to terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light fading & creasing to spine, light creasing to edges, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: classical philology literature anthropology classicists mythology history historiography
New Zealand Jesus: Social and Religious Transformations of an Image, 1890-1940
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & yellow lettering to spine, 268pp, VG+ (sl creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers 2011
KEYWORDS: New Zealand religion religious Christianity history doctrines Jesus Christ
Our Buried History: Coast Road Church Wainuiomata
Super ocatvo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, illus title page, 216pp, illus/photos, folding map of cemetery loosely enclosed to rear, VG+ (prev. bookseller's sm labels to spine & front coversl chafing & soiling to covers, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Wainuiomata Pioneer Church Preservation Society Inc 2016
KEYWORDS: New Zealand rural communities history old churches Wainuiomata Wesleyan church