Books - "history"
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Bleau: La Foret de Fontainebleau et ses rochers
text in French, quarto, green cloth boards, illus prelims, 180pp, illus, VG+ (v light discolouration to page edges, light wear) in VG d/w (wear to edges including small chips and closed tears, fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Editions ACLA 1982
KEYWORDS: french languages natural history sylvain jouty forest of fontainebleau
The Colonial Clippers
imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xvi + 384pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, light discolouration) in VG+ d/w (light wear including small closed tears)
PUBLISHER: Brown, Son & Ferguson 1955
KEYWORDS: history clippers sailing nautical basil lubbock
The Log of the Cutty Sark
imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, frontispiece, xii + 332pp, illus including VG+ folding photograph, VG+ (light wear, light discolouration) in VG+ d/w (in plastic wrapper)
PUBLISHER: Brown, Son & Ferguson 1960
KEYWORDS: history cutty sark sailing nautical basil lubbock
The Western Ocean Packers
imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, frontispiece, xiii + 146pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, light discolouration) in VG+ d/w (light wear, black marks to extremities)
PUBLISHER: Brown, Son & Ferguson 1960
KEYWORDS: history western ocean packers sailing nautical basil lubbock
Birds of a Salt-Field
Thin card boards, octavo (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand 1967
KEYWORDS: specials ornithology birds New Zealannd Australia natural history Roy P Cooper
Sea Classics of New Zealand: Stories of New Zealand's Yachting Pioneers
Imperial octavo, stapled wrappers, signed (VG);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: Paul Titchener Publications 1981
KEYWORDS: specials New Zealand history maritime yachting boats nautical Paul Titchener Ronald Carter Ted Le Huquet Logan Brothers Bert Woollacott
The New Zealanders at Gallipoli (second edition)
octavo, brown cloth boards with darker brown lettering to spine and front board and brown bordered design to front board, xix + 330pp, illus, VG+ (wear to extremities, slight discolouration to eps), lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1921
KEYWORDS: new zealand military history world war one WWI gallipoli
Land, Pa and Polity: A Study Based on the Maori Fortifications of Pouto
monograph 15
signed by author, dated in ink, quarto, illus heavy card boards with light blue cloth to spine, handwritten black lettering to spine, v + 118pp, illus, VG+ (light wear)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Archaeological Association 1985 (?)
KEYWORDS: new zealand history maori anthropology pouto land geoffrey irwin
A Conservation Manual for the Field Archaeologist
quarto, illus light card covers, printed rear pastedown, xii + 172pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, ink owner's name to fep)
PUBLISHER: Archaeological Research Tools, volume 4 1988
KEYWORDS: history archaeology conservation catherine sease
The Sweet Potato and Oceania: An Essay in Enthnobotany
mperial octavo, light card covers, frontispiece, xvi + 389pp, illus, VG (light wear and soiling, v light foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Bishop Museum Press 1974
KEYWORDS: natural history sweet potato oceania anthropology botany ethnobotany d.e. yen
Taphonomy: The Analysis of Processes from Phytoliths of Megafauna
quarto, illus light card covers, viii + 115pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear)
PUBLISHER: Australian National University 1999
KEYWORDS: science taphonomy archaeology natural history mary-jane mountain doreen bowdery
The Archaeology of the Peripheral Pa at Pouerua, Northland, New Zealand
quarto, illus light card covers, ix + 114pp, illus, VG (stain to fep and prelims, v light wear, owner's stamp to fep)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1993
KEYWORDS: archaeology new zealand history pa site pouerua northland douglas g. sutton
Prehistoric Man in Palliser Bay
super octavo, illus heavy card boards with light blue cloth to spine, handwritten black lettering to spine, v + 272pp, illus including large folding maps (near fine), VG+ (v light wear) inscribed and signed by author on front cover
PUBLISHER: National Museum of New Zealand 1979
KEYWORDS: new zealand history archaeology prehistoric man palliser bay b. foss leach helen m. leach
The Archaeology of Pouerua
imperial octavo, illus light card covers, x + 262pp, illus, VG+ (v light fading to cards, some page edges folded over)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: new zealand history archaeology pouerua pa douglas sutton louise furey yvonne marshall
Archaeological Excavations at the Omata Stockade and Warea Redoubt, Taranaki
monograph 20
quarto, illus light card covers, 132pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Archaeological Association 1994
KEYWORDS: new zealand history archaeology omata stockadge warea redoubt nigel prickett
Ecological Restoration of New Zealand Islands: Papers presented at conference on ecological restoration of New Zealand islands, University of Auckland
20-24 November 1989
quarto, illus light card covers, vi + 320pp, illus, VG+ (ink owner's name to fep, water damage to lower right corner causing some pages to stick together)
PUBLISHER: Department of Conservation 1990
KEYWORDS: ecology new zealand natural history d.r. towns c.h. daugherty i.a.e. atkinson
Sites of Gender: Women, Men and Modernity in Southern Dunedin 1890-1939
super octavo, illus light card covers, xiii + 434pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: gender studies sociology feminism new zealand history dunedin barbara brookes annabel cooper robin law
The Technology of a Modern Stone Age People in New Guinea
Occasional Papers on Technology 3 (Penniman T.K & Blackwood B.M (eds))
imperial octavo, light card covers, frontispiece, 60pp + xvi plates, illus, VG (wear to wrappers repaired with tape, foxing throughout, ink owner's details to fep)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1964
KEYWORDS: beatrice blackwood archaeology history new guinea stone age
Settlement in the South East Bay of Islands, 1772: A Study in Text-Aided Field Archaeology
imperial octavo, illus light card covers, v + 229 + unpaginated appendices, VG- (moderate wear, soiling and foxing to covers and page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Otago 1969
KEYWORDS: new zealand history archaeology anthropology south east bay of islands jean kennedy
Pig Husbandry in New Guinea: A Literature Review and Bibliography
includes CD-ROM, quarto, illus light card covers, xvi + 291pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear and rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research 2003
KEYWORDS: agriculture pig husbandry new guinea robin hide natural history anthropology