Books - "history"
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Te Kupenga 101: Stories of Aotearoa from the Turnball
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, frontispiece, white lettering to front board and spine, 271pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (minor creasing to spine)
PUBLISHER: Massey University 2021
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Alexander Turnbull
Paris Mon Amour
Folio, heavy boards, 267pp, Near FINE (minor marking to front board) in d/w Near Fine (still in original plastic wrap)
PUBLISHER: Evergreen 1999
KEYWORDS: photography art Jean-Claude Gautrand Paris France history
Marc Riboud In China: Forty Years of Photography
Folio, black cloth boards with red decoration to front board, red lettering to spine, 175pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1997
KEYWORDS: photography art history China Marc Riboud
Living Apart: South Africa Under Apartheid
Folio, black heavy boards, grey lettering to front board and spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 256pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, minor soiling to page edges) in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Phaidon 1996
KEYWORDS: art photography South Africa apartheid history
From Defeat to Victory: The Eastern Front, Summer 1944 (Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 2)
Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 354pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to extrems sl fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of Kansas 2016
KEYWORDS: military wwII World War 2 war battles Eastern Front history
The Art of Pleafing in Conversation
DUAL TEXT, THIS VOLUME ONLY, sm octavo, rebound incorporating original leather boards with contemporary spine & board corners [half bound], gilt lettering to red title plates on spine, contemporary eps [front eps incorporating originals], red speckling to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep [historic], XX + 456pp, illus, VG- (minor pencil marking to title page, heavy scuffing to boards with light surface loss and light marking, heavy tanning and soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: London 1749
KEYWORDS: Dual Text French English pleafing language art social history
From Swamp to City: Commemorating The Diamond Jubilee of The City: Official Souvenir 1887-1937
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG- (heavy creasing/rolling and minor chipping to extrems, minor foxing to page edges, minor marking to front wrapper, minor scuffing and creasing to rear wrapper, ink imprint to fep from next page)
PUBLISHER: Not Available (c. 1937)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Palmerston North society city development
The Last Voyage of Capt. John Ross R.N., For The Discovery of a North West Passage: Performed In The Years 1829-30-31-32 and 33
READING COPY OR REBIND, LACKS SPINE, FRONTIS & PRELIMS, octavo, marbled heavy boards half bound in leather with blind decoration, marbled page edges, vignette, 716pp + 44pp supplement, folding table near rear, illus, G- (missing spine, front board & eps detached but present, moderate to heavy scuffing & surface loss to boards & extrems, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling throughout- text unaffected, occasional minor pencil underlining & markings, rear board & terminals/supplement pgs detached but present, occasional creasing to pages at rear, binding otherwise reasonably sound)
PUBLISHER: London: Published for The Proprietors by John Saunders, 25, Newgate Street, 1835 (?)
KEYWORDS: maritime exploration biography Captain John Ross history antiquarian books rebinding reading copy
James LillyWhite's Cricketers' Annual 1885
Ex library, sm octavo, orange buckram covered soft boards, black lettering to front board, previous owner's pencil lettering to spine, printed inside boards, frontispiece, ads + 276pp + 20pp ads, VG- (minor creasing, soiling, light rolling to lower corner of front board, heavy fading to front board text and title and rear board text, minor scuffing to extrems, light scuffing, fading/discolouration to spine and chipping to base, minor lime green marking to spine, handwritten title to spine, minor library markings to front board, pencil annotation to front board)
PUBLISHER: James LillyWhite & Frowd & Co and Wright & Co 1886
KEYWORDS: New Zealand cricket sports history James LillyWhite