Books - "history"
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Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white and yellow lettering to front wrapper, black, white and yellow lettering to spine, illus/diagrams/photos, Near Fine (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Massey University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: Maori New Zeaaland history sailiing voyages traditions waka navigation
Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700
Two volume set. Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine & front board lettered in maroon & gilt, 338, 339-860 pp.,VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems, some rubbing), in slipcase, VG (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, light soiling & scuffing). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2013
KEYWORDS: Europe European political religious history Reformation Christianity Folio Society
The Campaigns of Alexander
Octavo, orange cl boards, spine lettered in black, 308 pp.,VG+ (sl bruising to edges & extrems), in slipcase, VG (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, rubbing). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2012
KEYWORDS: Alexander the Great Arrian ancient Greece Greek history Folio Society
The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History
Super octavo, black card boards, spine lettered in gilt, 713 pp.,VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems, sl scuffing to boards), in d/w, VG (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling & scuffing/rubbing). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2018
KEYWORDS: dictionary dictionaries modern history reference
Aethelred the Unready
Scarce in hardcover. Super octavo, blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt, 369 pp.,VG (light bruising to edges & extrems with small tear to spine at head, light soiling to pg edges, sl scuffing to boards), in d/w, VG (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling & scuffing). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2016
KEYWORDS: Levi Roach Anglo Saxon Anglo-Saxon medieval history
The Zen of International Relations: IR Theory from East to West
Octavo, grey card boards, spine lettered in silver gilt, 254 pp.,VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems, light scuffing/rubbing to boards, desk copy stamp throughout), in d/w, VG (light bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling & scuffing). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Palgrave 2001
KEYWORDS: international relations politics political history
Approaches to the Modern Japanese Short Story
Octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, 341 pp.,VG (light bruising to edges & extrems, light scuffing/rubbing to boards, ownership inscription to ffep, ffep torn at fore-edge), in d/w, VG (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling & scuffing, moderate fading esp to spine). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Waseda University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese literature history literary criticism
The Heaphy Track
Scarce. Super octavo, illus light card covers, 214 pp.,VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems, sl rubbing to covers). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Nikau Press 2012
KEYWORDS: early New Zealand local history walking tracks hiking
The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics
First softcover edition. Super octavo, illus light card covers, 772 pp.,VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems, light soiling). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: Sri Lanka travel history companion historu culture
The History of Seaward Downs
Signed by committee chairman. Super octavo, illus card boards, 216 pp.,VG+ (sl bruising to edges & extrems, light soiling/scuffing to boards). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: The Seaward Downs Book Committee 2007
KEYWORDS: Seaward Downs early local New Zealand history
Through South Westland: A Journey to the Haast and Mount Aspiring, New Zealand
Super octavo, green cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, 219 pp.,G+ (moderate to heavy bruising to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping, moderate soiling & scuffing to boards, moderate soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals, ownership inscription to ffep, frontis loose, moderate cracking to gutters, map to rear loose). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Witherby & Co. 1911
KEYWORDS: early New Zealand travel writing travelling South Island local history
The Hunt for Kimathi
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, brown card boards, spine lettered in gilt, 267 pp.,VG (light bruising to edges & extrems, light soiling & scuffing to boards, moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals), in d/w, VG- (moderate bruising to edge & extrems with light to moderate chipping, moderate soiling & scuffing, light to moderate foxing). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1958
KEYWORDS: Ian Henderson Kenya Dedan Kimathi military history
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Super octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in red, 401 pp.,VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems, soiling to spine & boards, rubbing), in slipcase, VG (light bruising to edge & extrems, light to moderate soiling, fading & scuffing). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2018
KEYWORDS: British Empire Great Britain history Folio Society
The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome
Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, teg, 671 pp.,VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems), in slipcase, VG (light bruising to edge & extrems, light to moderate soiling, fading & scuffing). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2013
KEYWORDS: anicent Greece Greek Roman history classics classical
The Gympie Goldfield, 1867-2008
Signed & inscribed by author. Obl super octavo, illus light card covers, 102 pp.,VG (moderate bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling to covers, sl cracking to front hinge). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Gympie Regional Council 2009
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian local history goldfields gold mining
The New Zealand Division, 1916-1919
Super octavo, cl boards, 634 pp.,VG- (moderate bruising to edges & extrems with light chipping, light to moderate soiling to boards, moderate soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals, light to moderate cracking to front, central & rear gutters, ownership inscription to ffep). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1921
KEYWORDS: 20th century New Zealand military history
Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station
Note from J. Archer Absolom (chairman of the Tutira Trust) to W. A. Wattie tipped in to ffep. Imp octavo, blue cl boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt, 444 pp.,VG (light bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, light soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals), in d/w, VG- (heavy bruising to edges & extrems with heavy chipping & loss, light to mdoerate soiling). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons 1953
KEYWORDS: early New Zealand local history sheep station
A Dance to the Music of Time
4 VOL SET IN INDIVIDUAL SLIPCASES. FIRST EDITION THUS. Super octavo, red cl boards, gilt lettering to spines, illus to front boards, xvi+496pp, x+502pp, ix+501pp, x+565pp, illus, VG+, in slipcase VG (minor scuffing & moderate soiling to covers). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Folio Society 2006/2007
KEYWORDS: first edition thus Anthony Powell history literature novels collection England Britain
A History of Farm Implements and Implement Firms in New Zealand
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, green cl boards, black lettering to front board, illus/photos, vii+104pp, VG (minor creasing/bruising to extrems of spine & board, minor buising & soiling to boards, minor tanning/foxing & soiling to page edges, owners name in pen to pastedown, minor tanning to page extrems).
PUBLISHER: N/A (circa 1956)
KEYWORDS: first edition B L Evans New Zealand agriculture farming tools machinery history illustrated
The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand + A Supplement to The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand
EXTREMELY RARE, TWO VOLUMES 1928 FIRST EDITION WITH 1939 SUPPLEMENT. Quarto, half bound leather boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt decoration to main volume, gilt lettering & decoration to boards, speckled page edges to supplement, frontispiece+xi+386pp+61 plates to rear, 95pp+10 plates, illus/plates (all counted), Vol 1 VG (minor fading & soiling to spine, moderate chipping to spine/ hinges & board extrems with some loss, moderate scuffing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning/faxing & soiling to page edges, minor foxing/tanning to eps & prelims & rear eps, minor foxing sporadic throughout, sl tanning to page extrems). Vol 2 VG ( moderate fading to spine, moderate scuffing and minor loss to base of spine, moderate scuffing to board edges, sl scuffing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to fep, sl foxing to prelims, sl foxing sporadic to rear).
PUBLISHER: Ferguson & Osbourne 1928 /1939
KEYWORDS: first edition G V Hudson natural New Zealand history lepidopterology science nature moths butterflies illustrated plates