Books - "history"
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The Journal of William Lockerby: Sandalwood Trader in the Fijian Islands During the Years 1808 - 1809 with an Introduction & Other Papers Connected with the Earliest European Visitors to the Islands
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, blind stamped border & gilt stamped ship decoration to boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled edges, cxi + 249pp, frontispiece, 3x folding maps to rear pocket (all complete) VG+ (slight brusing & scuffing to board edges & spine, v slight foxing & tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & soiling to pastedowns, fep/rep & half title page, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: The Haklyut Society Second Series No. LII Issued for 1922
KEYWORDS: first edition haklyut society william lockerby sandalwood trader trade fiji fijian islands nineteenth century polynesian history
The Crisis of the Twelth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxviii + 677pp, illus, Nr FINE (slight bruising to board edges, v slight soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing to corners, light soiling tanning & fading to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: twelth century thomas n bisson european politics political history analysis power lordship
Memoir of the Life and Episcopate of George Augustus Selwyn: Bishop of New Zealand 1841-1869; Bishop of Lichfield 1867-1878 [in two volumes]
IN TWO VOLUMES, REBOUND FOR LIBRARY USE, super octavo, black leather binding, gilt ruled border to boards, gilt stamped decoration to boards, gilt decoration, leather raised bands & gilt lettering to spines, all page edges marbled, marbled eps, frontispieces, mixed pagination, varied illustration maps/lithographs/charts/facsimile journal pages, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to boards, edges & spines, moderate scuffing and cracking to hinges (secure), light soiling & fading to boards, edges & spines, sporadic slight foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: William Wells Gardner 1879
KEYWORDS: archbishop bishop of new zealand george augustus selwyn anglican new zealand history
Our New Zealand Cousins
INSCRIBED WITH THE AUTHOR'S COMPLIMENTS, small octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to boards & spine, gilt bands to spine, illus eps, xii + 311pp + 32ads, VG (light brusing to boards & spine, v slight scuffing to edges of boards, light to moderate foxing to page edges & ads to rear, heavy tanning to fep & half title page, previous owner's name in ink to pastedown & fep, previous bookseller's label to pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington 1887
KEYWORDS: james inglis travelogue new zealand aotearoa travel writing colonial history
Sowers of Thunder: Giants in Myth and History
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, black, brown & white text to wrapper, xvi + 194 pp, illus, VG+ (v slight rubbing to edges of wrapper, light tanning & fading to wrapper, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Rider & Company 1978
KEYWORDS: anthony roberts myth history gogmagog cornish british giants esotericisms titans albion british isles united kingdom folklore europe european king anak hoerbiger
Festivals of the Athenians
Octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt publishers stamp to front board, gilt lettering to spine, 208pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to edges of boards & spine, light to moderate tanning & soiling to pastedowns, prelims/terminals & page edges) in d/w VG- (moderate to heavy tanning & fading to jacket, 2cm open tear to front corner of jacket, slight scuffing to edges of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1977
KEYWORDS: ancient greek athenian athens religion religious history classical h w parke
The Saga of Themistocles
Octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt publishers stamp to front board, gilt lettering to spine, 248pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing to edges of boards & spine, light to moderate tanning & soiling to pastedowns, prelims/terminals & page edges, diagonal section cut from fep with remnant of previous owner's name in ink) in d/w VG (moderate tanning & fading to jacket, light soiling to jacket, slight scuffing to edges of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1978
KEYWORDS: ancient greek themistocles robert j lenardon grecian history classical
Greek and Roman Voting and Elections
Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt publishers stamp to front board, gilt lettering to spine, 271pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to edges of boards & spine, light tanning & soiling to pastedowns, prelims/terminals & page edges) in d/w VG (light tanning & fading to jacket, light soiling to jacket, slight scuffing to edges of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1982
KEYWORDS: ancient greek history classical grecian political politics voting elections
The Magistrates of the Roman Republic: Volume II; 99BC-31BC
THIS VOLUME ONLY, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 647pp + 89, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to edges of boards & spine, slight soiling to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & fep/rep)
PUBLISHER: American Philological Association Number XV Volume II 1968
KEYWORDS: roman republic magistrates t robert s broughton ancient history classical political politics
The Nuremberg Chronicle: A Facsimile of Hartmann Schedel's Buch der Chroniken
Folio, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to black section on front board & spine, unpaginated prelims + 289pp, extensively illus/maps/diagrams, VG+ (v slight scuffing to board corners & spine, light to moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, v slight chafing to boards)
PUBLISHER: Landmark Press 1979
KEYWORDS: nuremberg chronicles german european history fifteenth century hartmann schedel anton koeberger
Revolution in Judaea: Jesus and the Jewish Resistance
Octavo blue heavy boards, quarter bound in red cloth, silver gilt lettering to spine, deckled edges, 256pp, VG+ (light fading & scuffing to boards & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate fading to spine, 2cm closed tear to front of jacket, light to moderate soiling to jacket, light tanning to jacket, price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Taplinger Publishing Company 1980
KEYWORDS: ancient judaea revolution jesus abrahamic religions religiou history christian hyam macoby
Tangata Whenua: A History
Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, black & white text to spine & wrapper, viii + 536pp, Nr FINE (v slight rubbing to edges of wrapper, v slight soiling to page edges, previous owner's stamp to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2020
KEYWORDS: tangata whenua aotearoa new zealand history atholl anderson judith binney aroha harris