Books - "history"
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Compendium of Australasian Merchant Ships 1831-2008: A listing of non sail-powered Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific merchant ships
Oblong super octavo, illus light card wrappers, brown text to wrapper, tan text to spine, 316pp, VG (light to moderate creasing to wrapper, light soiling & fading to wrapper, light soiling 7 tanning to page edges, previous owner's label adhered to front inside cover & title page)
PUBLISHER: Nautical Association of Australia Inc 2008
KEYWORDS: merchant ships history australian new zealand shipping nautical south pacific robert bob tompkins
The Adventures of Kimble Bent: A Story of WIld Life in the New Zealand Bush
Small octavo, brown buckram boards, black illus & text to boards, black text to spine, xxi + 336pp, illus, G (heavy scuffing & soiling to boards, 8cm split to cloth along spine hinge, moderate insect damage to spine & boards, several gutters cracked, moderate to heavy soiling & foxing to pages, binding shaky, previous owner's name to pastedown & fep)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1911
KEYWORDS: kimble bent bushman history aotearoa new zealand maoriland colonial settler
Home Boats: The Ships that made New Zealand and their Seafarers
Quarto, illus heavy boards, yellow text to spine & boards, illus eps, illus prelims, illus title page, 329pp, VG+ (light bruising to board corners & edges, slight soiling to boards,, previous owner's name in pencil to fep, light staining to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Nick Tolerton & Atelier de Merivale 2021
KEYWORDS: nick tolerton new zealand nautical maritime merchant navy history boats boating ships shipping
The China Navigation Company Limited: A Pictorial History 1872-1992
Oblong imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, blind stamped lettering to front board, illus title page, illus prelims, unpaginated prelims + 119pp, illus+folding map, VG+ (light bruising, soiling & rubbing to boards & spine, light foxing to page edges & first & last page, previous owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w VG+ (v slight creasing to edges, light soiling to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Butterfield & Swire, John Swire & Sons 1992
KEYWORDS: china navigation company chinese maritime nautical history trade relations
Some Arval Brethren
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vi + 132pp, folding chart, VG+ (v slight rubbing to board corners, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light fading to spine, light chafing & tanning to jacket, price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press Oxford 1980
KEYWORDS: arval brethren fratres arvales classics roman greek ancient history societies ronald syme republic religious fraternity twelve brethren
An Accidental Utopia? Social mobility & the foundations of an egalitarian society, 1880-1940
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, yellow & white text to spine, 332pp, illus/graphs & charts, Nr FINE (v slight rubbing to wrapper corners, slight tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: new zealand political history egalitarian society gender relations social mobility class erik olssen clyde griffen frank jones systemic analysis dunedin urban social structure
Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarum Sive Originum; Libri XX; Tomus I [Libros i-x] & Tomus II [Libros xi --xx]
TWO VOLUME SET, TEXT IN LATIN, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, mixed pagination, VG+ (v slight rubbing to edges, light soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading & soiling to jacket, volume 1's jacket has 1cm closed tear to front & 2cm open tear to rear, previous bookseller's label residue to rear)
PUBLISHER: The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1985
KEYWORDS: text in latin isidore of seville isidori hispalensis episcopi history roman latin language grammar study
An Aramaic Approach to Q: Sources for the Gospels of Matthew & Luke
Octavo, light blue light card wrappers, dark blue & white text to spine & wrapper, x + 210pp, VG+ (v slight chafing & creasing to wrapper, v slight soiling to inside cover)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2002
KEYWORDS: aramaic biblical history scripture Q bible sources gospel texts maurice casey matthew luke dead sea scrolls theology
Aramaic Sources of Mark's Gospel
Octavo, light blue light card wrappers, dark blue & white text to spine & wrapper, x + 278pp, VG+ (v slight chafing & creasing to wrapper, slight soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: aramaic biblical history scripture Q bible sources gospel texts maurice casey mark dead sea scrolls theology
A History of Croydon Bush: From the Past to the Present (1856-1988)
Imperial octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, viii + 248pp, illus, Nr FINE (v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w VG+ (slight rubbing to edges, v slight soiling & fading to jacket)
PUBLISHER: The Gore Publishing Co 1988
KEYWORDS: paula dickie first edition croydon bush south island southland new zealand history gore
Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine
Super octavo, grey light card wrappers, blue text to wrapper & spine, ix + 561pp, VG+ (slight rubbing to wrapper edges & spine, v slight soiling to wrapper & page edges)
PUBLISHER: J C B Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 2001
KEYWORDS: jewish literacy roman palestine levant middle eastern history catherine hezser
Gallia Narbonensis; with a chapter on Alpes Maritimae: Southern France in Roman Times
Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 370pp, illus, VG (light to moderate colour loss to edges of boards where jacket had previously been affixed, v slight rubbing to edges of boards & spine, moderate soiling to page edges) in d/w VG- ( v slight rubbing to edges, moderate staining from boards to inside of jacket, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: B T Batsford Ltd 1988
KEYWORDS: gallia narbonensis alpes maritimae french southern france history roman empire europe a l f rivet