Books - "history"
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Super Octavo Softcover (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: Bloomsbury 2023
KEYWORDS: history earth geography natural empires
The Brownie of Bodsbeck
Octavo Hardcover (VG+) d/w (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: Scottish Academic Press 1976
KEYWORDS: historical fiction history James Hogg literature
New Zealand Official Yearbook 1987-88 (92nd Annual Edition)
Super Octavo Softcover (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: The Department of Statistics, Wellington 1987
KEYWORDS: New Zealand statistics history official yearbooks
Jack's Voice: A POW's Diary & Letters - Stalag VIIIB 1941-1945
Super octavo softcover (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: John Penman Turner 2020
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history war battles WW2 World War 2 military letters diaries POW Stalag VIIIB
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Octavo Softcover (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 2008
KEYWORDS: Nazi Germany history war World War 2 WW2 battles economy Europe
The Journal of Christopher Columbus
Super Octavo Hardcover (VG) d/w (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: Anthony Blond / Orion 1960
KEYWORDS: Christopher Columbus geography biography maps history exploration travel
The Pacific Islands Year Book: 1942 (Fourth (War-Time) Edition)
Octavo Hardcover (G+) scruffy copy; 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: Pacific Publications 1942
KEYWORDS: Pacific Islands yearbooks war battles World War 2 WW2 The Pacific War military history
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Octavo softcover (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: W. W. Norton & Company 2008
KEYWORDS: America American history law Hemings
General Peter Cosgrove: My Story
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR Super octavo hardcover (VG+) d/w (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: HarperCollins 2006
KEYWORDS: Austrailia Austrailian military history biography autobiography battles army interfet
Covid-19 Nation Dates: A New Zealand Timeline of Significant Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Second Edition)
Octavo softcover (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: Mcguinness Institute 2024
KEYWORDS: New Zealand pandemic science timeline history global events covid 19 covid-19 coronavirus health
Vile Crimes: The Timaru Poisonings
Octavo softcover (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: Canterbury University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Timaru true crime murder law history colonial society
Richard Trevithick: The Engineer and the Man (Trevithick Centenary Commemoration Memorial Volume)
FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, super octavo hardcover (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: Cambridge University Press 1934 (Second Impression)
KEYWORDS: Richard Trevithick engineering biography memoir first edition history
Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island
Octavo softcover (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: Talbot Press 1983
KEYWORDS: autobiography Blasket Island Peig Sayers Ireland history
The Falklands War: A Day-by-Day Account from Invasion to Victory (25th Anniversary)
Super octavo softcover (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: Marshall Cavendish 2007
KEYWORDS: military war english history Falklands Simon Weston
Elite Units of The Third Reich: German Special Forces in World War II
Imperial octavo softcover (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: Brown Reference Group 2004
KEYWORDS: Nazi Germany war battles World War 2 WW2 military history german special forces third reich Nazis
The Cosmic Serpent: A Catastrophist View of Earth History
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 299pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing & rubbing to edges, moderate scuffing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1982
KEYWORDS: social history catastrophe politics science astronomy space first editions
Leica: An Illustrated History Volume I - Cameras
THIS VOL ONLY, Quartp, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board, illus title page and prelims, 318pp, illus/photo, VG- (light-moderate soiling to boards, slight brusing and rubbing to extrems, moderate soiling and light tanning to pages edges, sloppy binding and heavy cracking to gutters, occasional soiling to pages throughout) in d/w VG (light soiling to upper edges, moderate creasing to flap folds, light chipping and moderate creasing to spine, moderate chafing and soiling)
PUBLISHER: Lager Limited 1993
KEYWORDS: cameras photography history art Leica
Dionysos, Archetypal Images of Indestructible Life
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, green lettering to spine, xxxvii + 474pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing to front wrapper, 1cm closed tear to head of spine, light soiling and foxing to page edges, light tanning and foxing to inside covers)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: mythology greek gods Dionysos vase paintings ceramics and pottery ancient history
Tim Harington Looks Back
FIRST EDITION Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, upper edges of pages stained blue, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims+ 288pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light-moderate tanning & foxing on page edges, light tanning on eps, moderate soiling and foxing on rear eps and gutter, terminal pages missing) in d/w VG- (price clipped, 2cm closed tear to front flap fold and other multiple small closed tears to edges, 5cm loss to base of spine, moderate staining/soiling to front cover and spine, moderate creasing and chipping to edges, moderately tanned spine, faded small ink numerals to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1940
KEYWORDS: First Edition biography military history Great War Spanish Civil War Gibraltar Tim Harrington
Stories of Murchison Earthquake: 17th. June, 1929
THIRD PRINTING, Quarto,stapled red light card wrappers, black lettering on cover, 56pp, VG (light creasing on front cover with light bruising to extrems, light fading on the upper edge of the front cover and spine, light scuffing on front and back cover, light soiling/foxing and tanning on page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to inside front cover, light creasing in prelims and throughout)
PUBLISHER: The Murchison District Historical and Museum Society 1979
KEYWORDS: third printing earthquake Murchison Earthquake history natural disasters New Zealand personal accounts