Books - "history"
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Nga Waka O Nehera: The First Voyaging Canoes
first edition 223pp quarto softcover NF (in wrappers,sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: reed auckland 1997
KEYWORDS: new zealand maori history jeff evans canoe travel
Bygone Fife From Culross to St Andrews
first edition 393pp [col.frontis.w.b/w fold-out map at rear] VG+ (blue cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed,faint green pencil date to map w.minor creases to edges)
PUBLISHER: william blackwood edinburgh 1931
KEYWORDS: scotland history geography culross james wilkie fife
The Annals of Auchterarder and Memorials of Strathearn
first edition 301pp ills.[b/w] VG- (burgundy cloth,blind stamp to top board,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,paste action to eps,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed,spine cracked w.several sections loosening some barely attached)
PUBLISHER: david philips crieff 1899
KEYWORDS: scotland history geography auchterarder strathearn alexander reid
A Joy For Ever
St.Mary's Parish Church Timaru
first edition limited [600 copies] 76pp ills.[b/w and col.] NF (green cloth,minor soiling to content edges) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: tombs wellington 1945
KEYWORDS: new zealand geography history harold monaghan timaru
Ballads of the Pacific Northwest
first edition inscribed by author 170pp ills.[b/w w.col.frontis.] VG+ (green cloth,top board sl.stained,minor foxing to content edges,author's inscr.to half-title) in VG+ d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,chipping and wear to extrems.w.1cm loss to foot of spine)
PUBLISHER: ryerson press toronto 1946
KEYWORDS: history pacific northwest robert allison hood signed geography
Vignettes of Vancouver
first edition inscribed by author 84pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (green cloth,sl.soiled,eps and content edges sl.foxed,author's inscr.to half-title) in Vg d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear and chipping to extrems.,internal foxing)
PUBLISHER: education services vancouver 1954
KEYWORDS: geography history robert allison hood signed
The Mac Callum More: A History of the Argyll Family from the Earliest Times
first edition 144pp [fold-out chart to front] VG (red cloth,mod.rubbed and stained,sl.wear to extrems.,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: bemrose london 1871
KEYWORDS: hely smith history argyll mac callum
The Economic Development of the British Overseas Empire
3 vols.
3 vols.vol.1 second edition/vols.2,3 first editions 555/616/356pp [fold-out maps] VG+ (blue cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,owner's sign.to ffep,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: routledge london 1928/1930/1936
KEYWORDS: british empire history geography knowles
The Wind Commands
first nz edition, imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, 498pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (minor soiling,maps to eps,ffep clippedcontent edges v.sl.soiled) in VG- d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,front cover and spine sunned almost to white,sl.wear and chipping to extrems.,insect holes to foot of both hinges)
PUBLISHER: john mcindoe dunedin 1976
KEYWORDS: nautical history harry morton travel
Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1858
first edition thus unbound pp353-670 VG (amateur white card and clear plastic wrapper,contents appear to have been removed from a book,minor soiling)
PUBLISHER: govt.print office washington 1858
KEYWORDS: history politics india geography
Wigan R.L.F.C. 1895-1986
first edition 352pp ills.[b/w] F in F d/w
PUBLISHER: breedon books sport derby 1986
KEYWORDS: sport rugby league wigan ian morrison history
The Modern School of Art
vol.4
ex-lib.vol.4 only 232pp ills.[b/w] VG (green cloth,rubbed and stained,mod.wear to extrems.,usual libr.stamps and labels,insect holes to eps,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed,some sl.foxing to contents but plates are generally clean w.foxing only to margins and verso)
PUBLISHER: cassell london [nd]
KEYWORDS: arts wilfrid meynell history
Fabre's Book of Insects
271pp ills.[12 tipped-in col.plates by detmold] NF (green cloth w.gilt dec.borders,eps and untrimmed content edges v.sl.foxed,plates all clean and bright) in VG d/w (onion-skin unprinted wrapper,sl.soiled,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.) in VG- box w.lid (green card w.col.plate mounted on top,rubbed and soiled w.stain to top affecting one corner of plate,mod.wear and chipping to extrems,one side of base detached at one corner)
PUBLISHER: dodd mead new york 1926
KEYWORDS: natural history science fabre insects rodolph stawell
The Mantle of Surgery
the first seventy-five years of the royal australasian college of surgeons
first edition 310pp ills.[b/w and col.] F in NF d/w (v.sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: royal australasian college of surgeons melbourne 2002
KEYWORDS: medicine science surgeons history beasley
Dreamscape 1
first edition vol.1 only 351pp NF (green cloth,owner's inscr.to ffep [nz author dennis mceldwoney],sl.cocked) in Fine dustwrapper
PUBLISHER: pisces print christchurch 1991
KEYWORDS: biography history new zealand john summers
Merchant Ship Stability
third edition 165pp [b/w diagrams] VG+ (blue cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,eps and extrems.sl.foxed) in G+ d/w (rubbed and stained,chipping and wear to extrems.w.several losses,tatty)
PUBLISHER: brown glasgow 1962
KEYWORDS: history pursey merchant ship nautical transport
Fishermen in War Time
[first edition] 240pp ills.[b/w] VG- (blue cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled w.gilt navy league stamp to rear board,sunned spine,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,content edges sl.foxed/soiled)
PUBLISHER: sampson low london [nd]
KEYWORDS: nautical military history walter wood
London City
first edition 491pp ills.[b/w w.large folding map at rear] VG+ (burgundy cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,spine sunned and sl.stained,sl.wear to extrems.,owner's sign.to ffep,minor foxing to content edges,minor soiling to folding map) heavy item
PUBLISHER: black london 1910
KEYWORDS: geography history london walter besant
Kon-Nichi-Wa Japanese Beauties Today
first edition 164pp [text in japanese/english/french]+ads.ills.[b/w and col.] VG+ (mauve cloth boards w.white cloth spine,sl.soiled and sunned,prelims.sl.wrinkled,contents clean and tight) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,chipping and wear to extrems.w.some closed tears,tape repairs to head of spine)
PUBLISHER: shibusawa tokyo 1964
KEYWORDS: history geography japan beauty takako shibusawa
Alexander Turnbull: His Life His Circle His Collections
first edition 324pp ills.[b/w] VG in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled w.sl.surface losses to spine due to insects,sl.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: alexander turnbull library wellington 1974
KEYWORDS: new zealand literature history biography alexander turnbull library