Books - "history"
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Sail in the South
Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1976
KEYWORDS: marime nautical history sailing history Australia Australian New Zealand ships vessels
My Father's Island: A Galapagos Quest
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 1989
KEYWORDS: pacific islands Galapagos island history exploration adventure Hans Angermeyer travel history literature
The Coming of the Maoris to Aotearoa
RE-BACKED, octavo stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1953
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Maori culture heritage history anthropology migration
Catalogue of the Natural History Drawings Commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 (Held in the British Museum (Natural History)) Part 1: Botany: Australia
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 183pp, illus, VG+ (sl fading to spine & boards, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning to top edge of title page, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear ep, minor creasing to bottom corner of page block)
PUBLISHER: Meckler Publishing / British Museum (Natural History) 1984
KEYWORDS: Joseph Banks nature naturalists Endeavour voyages history historical catalogues British Museum Natural History botany Australia 18th eighteenth century art drawings
The History of Zoology in Western Australia; Discoveries in the 17th Century
Octavo, beige stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 20pp, VG (light to moderate soiling & foxing to covers/edges, minor soiling & tanning to page edges, light rusting of stapled to central gutter)
PUBLISHER: V K Jones & Co 1914
KEYWORDS: zoology Australia history historical discoveries 17th seventeenth century natural history
The Identity of Captain Cook's Kangaroo (pgs 43-50, pls 3-5)
Imperial octavo, beige light card covers, black lettering to covers, pgs 43-50, illus/plates, VG+ (prev. owner's name in ink to front cover, light wrinkling & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1950
KEYWORDS: British Museum bulletins zoology natural history Captain Cook kangaroos Australia Australian animals history exploration discoveries
Innovation and Specialisation: The Story of Shipbuilding in Finland
4to, pp. 328; illus. heavy card boards; illus. tp, photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Nautilus 2017
KEYWORDS: Kalle Id Bruce Peter Finland shipbuilding ship ships building maritime history industry technology history
The History of the Worthies of England
Three volume set. Rebacked, retaining original bdg. Demy 8vo, pp. xxx + 582 + 8 (advts), xii + 591, xii + 584; brown cl boards, boards paneled & decorated in arabesques, spine lettered in gilt; frontis. (v.1 only), top & fore edges sl deckled; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate to heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals)., some unopened pgs;
PUBLISHER: Thomas Tegg 1860
KEYWORDS: Thomas Fuller England English history worthies directory county counties directories occupations social history
Homer and the Monuments
Super 8vo, pp. xxiv + 552; blue buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; top pg edge stained red, illus., 32 plates; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to ffep); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning & foxing; price clipped).
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co. 1950
KEYWORDS: Homer Homeric Greece Greek ancient classical history antiquities archaeology history
Petrol Company (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45)
LACKS D/W, tidy ex-library, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 363pp, illus/folding maps, VG (usual library markings/stamps, spine sl cocked, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs / War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs 1961
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history official history guides ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Petrol Company army corps
British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report ; Botany. Part III, Pp 29-76: Lichens
Quarto, grey light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, Pps 29-76 + plates to rear, VG (moderate cracking/tearing to spine, light tanning to spine & cover edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, some minor closed tearing to top edges of some pages)
PUBLISHER: British Museum (Natural History) 1923
KEYWORDS: British Antarctic expeditions exploration botany natural history south pole Antarctica history historical lichen lichens Terra Nova reports
Borromini
Super 8vo softcover (VG), some annotations; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press
KEYWORDS: Anthony Blunt Borromini architecture history art history historian life lives
Tibet: Land of Snows
Quarto hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co 1967
KEYWORDS: Tibet history culture heritage art history
Memories of a Bygone Era
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Marjorie Hall (Maidie) Robertson 2010
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers early settlers family history Phillips Robertson
Salt and Civilization
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 417pp, VG (spine cocked, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, strip of moderate tanning to half title page) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing/wrinkling & peeling to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling, 1cm closed tear to top edge of front cover)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: history culture salt commodities history historical antiquity
The Facts of Life
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: Great Britain British history sex sexual social history
A Bright & Savage Land: Scientists in Colonial Australia
Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: William Collins 1986
KEYWORDS: colonial Australia history naturalists botany botanists scientists history
Captain William Crush Daldy 1816-1903
Octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 236pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges, light tanning to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning/fading to spine, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: The Heritage Press 1993
KEYWORDS: Captain William Crush Daldy history biography biographies memoir history New Zealand early settlers pioneers
The Rooper Story
NOTE FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, xix + 290pp, illus/folding charts, VG (light to moderate fading & warping to spine, sl soiling to front board, moderate staining to rear board, spine cocked, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: S Straker & Sons (Printer) 1958
KEYWORDS: family history Rooper history genealogy
Te Puea: A Life
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Raupo / Penguin 2008
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history Te Puea Herangi biography biographies memoir history Michael King