Books - "history"
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Hotel Cabana: Thru the Decades
INSCRIBED TO ROCK JOURNALIST TREVOR REEKIE & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, quarto, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, 280pp, illus, disc to rear pocket VG+ (minor creasing & chafing/soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Lee Pritchard 2007
KEYWORDS: signed Lee Pritchard Trevor Reekie music history Cabana history
With the Fourth New Zealand Rough Riders
Super octavo burgundy buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, red speckled page edges, 200pp, illus/plates, lacks all but first fold of first plate, all others present, topical ephemera loosely enclosed, VG- ( moderate to heavy scuffing to edges & extrems, light fading to spine, moderate soiling & chafing to boards, page edges & pages lightly soiled & tanned, slight insect damage to rear board, moderate cracking to rear gutter with failed attempt at glue repair, previous owner's name stamped to contents & dedication pages)
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times & Witness Newspapers Co 1906
KEYWORDS: new zealand fourth contingent rough riders history military south africa history james g harle moore
Thomas Banks 1735-1805 Britain's First Modern Sculptor
Quarto 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: Sir John Soane's Museum 2005
KEYWORDS: British art sculpture Thomas Banks history historical history 18th eighteenth century
The Mary Rose: The Excavation and Raising of Henry VIII's Flagship
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: Conway Maritime Press 1983
KEYWORDS: maritime history Mary Rose history excavations Henry 8th viii flagships
Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board, illus eps, v + 191pp, illus + folding map to rear, VG+ (v slight soiling to cover, slight bruising to board corners, light foxing to upper page edges and prelims, light tanning to pages, light pencil annotation to folding map at rear only) in d/w VG- (heavy chipping & creasing to jacket edges, light to moderate tanning,soiling & foxing to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Polynesian Society Wellington NZ 1956
KEYWORDS: first editionpacific history polynesian polynesia voyaging ancient voyagers andrew sharp pre colonial history
The Brevarium of Festus: A Critical Edition with Historical Commentary
Octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 194pp, VG+ (slight rubbing to spine & board corners, light soiling & foxing to page edges, previous owners' names in ink to fep, light tanning to pages) in d/w VG- (moderate scuffing & creasing to jacket, light chipping along edges, light tanning, soiling & foxing to jacket)
PUBLISHER: The Athlone Press London 1967
KEYWORDS: latin historiography history j w eadie ancient greek roman classics history livian
The Pressure of Sunlight Falling
Quarto, grey cloth boards, blind stamped text to spine & front board, 160pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG+ (v slight rubbing & creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: fiona pardington new zealand maori female photographer life casts indigenous history colonial history
A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origins, Languages, Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants (Sixth Thousand)
SIXTH THOUSAND, octavo, half leatherbound brown heavy boards, gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to spine with rsaised bands also, aeg, frontispiece, illus title page, xviii + 590pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork, minor fading & rubbing to boards, moderate soiling to gilt page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, moderate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: J Snow 1837
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature historical history natural history missions missionaries south sea islands pacific anthropology
Heimat: A German Family Album
Super octavo hardcover (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: Particular Books 2018
KEYWORDS: nora krug family history german nazi regime social history
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud: Volume V
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: W.W. Norton & Company Ltd 1999
KEYWORDS: history social history pschology Freud victorian
Charging against Napoleon: Diaries and Letters of Three Hussars 1808-1815
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: LEO COOPER 2001
KEYWORDS: history Napoleon war diary entries military history Britain France
The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History
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: The University of Chicago Press Ltd 2012
KEYWORDS: history seashore coasts coastal history geography environmental studies human-environment interaction
Grant Rises in the West: From Iuka to Vicksburg, 1862-1863
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: Bison Books 1997
KEYWORDS: Ulysses S Grant Civil War Vicksburg Campaign Mississippi River American History Military History Union Army Confederacy Sieges Battles
Napoleon Bonaparte
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: Harper Collins Publishers 1997
KEYWORDS: history Napoleon emperor France french French history revolution kings and rulers biography
The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 - April 1942: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Volume III
THIS VOL ONLY 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: Castle Books 2001
KEYWORDS: history United States naval operations second 2nd world war two 2 ww2 wwii educational navy military history Pacific conflict
The Luck of the Draw: Horses, Spitfires and Kittyhawks
Imperial octavo hardcover (Near FINE): 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: Edward Sly 2003
KEYWORDS: history autobiography military history Australia air force fighter pilot Ted Sly
Mateship and Moneymaking: Australian Shearing: The Clash of Union Solidarity with the Spirit of Enterprise 1895-1995
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: Xlibris Corporation 2013
KEYWORDS: history sheep shearing Australian outbackLabour history economy
An Impeached Nation: Being a Study of Irish Outrages
Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to board & spine, stamped border decoration to front board, 417pp, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards & spine, light bruising to board corners, light to moderate tanning & soiling to pages & edges, slight foxing to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep, and notes in pencil to rep)
PUBLISHER: The New Zealand Tablet Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd 1909
KEYWORDS: irish history outrages united kingdom english history henry w cleary
Origins, Orient and Oriana
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: Teredo Books Ltd 1980
KEYWORDS: history naval maritime history ships Orient Steam Navigation Company naval architecture
Between two Rivers: A history of the Camerons community, Grey District, West Coast, 1865 - 2006
Quarto, illus light card wrappers, white & black lettering to spine & wrappers, 154pp, illus VG+ (light creasing to wrapper, slight tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Camerons Community Club 2006
KEYWORDS: west coast grey district new zealand history camerons community history