Books - "history"
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The Hoihi: New Zealand's Yellow-Eyed Penguin
square imperial octavo, illus heavy card boards, frontispiece, v + 44pp, illus, near fine in VG+ d/w (light wear and rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1991
KEYWORDS: new zealand natural history yellow-eyed penguin hoiho ornithology adele vernon dean schneider
National Resources Survey Part VI: Hawke's Bay Region
Compiled by the Town and Country Planning Branch
Quarto, green illustrated heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, frontispiece, vii + 233pp +7 large folding colour maps in rear pocket, illustrated, VG+ (owner's name in ink to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: AR Shearer, Government Printer 1971
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hawke's Bay Min of Works history reference climate geology government transport population industry forestry agriculture
Fiji and the Fijians: Volume 1 The Islands and their Inhabitants
This volume only, octavo, illustrated light card covers with black lettering to spine, ix pp intro to reprint edition, frontispiece, xi + folding map + 266pp, illus, VG+ (price label to rear cover, slight soiling to rear spine)
PUBLISHER: Fiji Museum 1982 reprint
KEYWORDS: Thomas Williams Fiji islands history people anthropology pre-christianity culture agriculture customs religion
Fiji and the Fijians: Volume 2 Mission History
This volume only, octavo, illustrated light card covers with black lettering to spine, v pp intro to reprint edition, frontispiece, 435pp, VG+ (price label to rear cover, foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Fiji Museum 1985 reprint
KEYWORDS: James Calvert Fiji islands history people anthropology Methodism Methodist mission christianity politics anthropology
Arts in the Religions of the Pacific: Symbols of Life
First edition, signed by author, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii +219pp, illustrated, near fine (v slight foxing to upper page edges) in VG+ d/w (fading & light soiling to upper internal edge and rear upper edge)
PUBLISHER: Pinter Publishers 1995
KEYWORDS: Albert C Moore Pacific arts religion Australia Melanesia Polynesia New Zealand music dance masks carving anthropology culture history geography
Oamaru Harbour: Port in a Storm
Octavo, illustrated light card covers, 176pp, illus, VG (front gutter cracked, v slight rubbing to cover corners, slight soiling to upper page edges)
PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press 1982
KEYWORDS: Gavin McLean Oamaru maritime history North Otago New Zealand port politics finance
Seeing Further: The Story of Science & The Royal Society
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Harper Press 2010
KEYWORDS: specials Bill Bryson Royal Society science history anthology Richard Dawkins Darwin Margaret Atwood Martin Rees Simon Schaffer Margaret Wertheim
The Mass
Paperback (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Collins Fount Paperbacks 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Jean-Marie Lustiger meditation religion theology Mass history order of mass
The Dominion of New Zealand
The All Red Series
Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering, illus eps, frontispiece, folding map at rear, VG (slight splitting at spine) 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Pitman & Sons 1909
KEYWORDS: specials Sir Arthur P Douglas New Zealand history geology Maori colonisation geography climate flora fauna government politics
New Zealand's Forests
Hardcover imperial octavo (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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1984
KEYWORDS: specials Harriet Fleet New Zealand trees forests timber flora fauna history logging forestry destruction pests deer
The Local Historian's Encylopaedia
Softcover 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Historical Publications 1981
KEYWORDS: specials John Richardson local history historical encyclopedia reference archives markets transport archaeology legislation parishes research
United States Geological Survey: Cambrian Brachiopoda
Part II - Plates
This volume only, quarto, dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind rule to boards, 363pp, 104 full-page black & white plates, illus, VG (rubbing & bruising to spine extrems, 1cm x 3cm rubbed-through patch to lower spine, fading to spine, rubbing to board & spine edges, soil spots to rear board, front & rear gutter loose but still attached, owner's name in ink to fep, Universities of Canterbury & Heidelberg library stamps to prelims, fading to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Washington Government Printing Office 1912
KEYWORDS: Charles D Walcott George Otis Smith geology brachiopoda natural history science reference shells fossils
New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1895
Prepared under instructions from the Hon RJ Seddon, Premier
Very tidy copy, octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, blind rule to rear board, black rule & decoration to front board & spine, patterned eps, folding colour map frontispiece, vii + 554pp, illus, folding statistical chart to rear, VG (slight rubbing to spine extrems & board corners, foxing & fading, gutters cracked, pages 199-203 have pulled through binding in the centre of text block and are loose.)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1895
KEYWORDS: EJ Von Dadelszen New Zealand history reference government politics farming agriculture population BDM exports imports industry
Maori & Pakeha: A Study of Mixed Marriages in New Zealand
first edition, hardcover octavo (VG) 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1966
KEYWORDS: new zealand history sociology mixed marriages john harre specials
Photograms of the Year 1921; the Annual Review of the World's Pictorial Photographic Work
small quarto, light blue cloth boards with white and black lettering to front board and spine, frontispiece tipped in, 34pp + LXIV plates + 43pp adverts, illus, VG- (soiling to boards, stickers to front pastedown, wear to extremities including bruising to corners and closed tears to head and tail of spine, discolouration to pages and v occasional foxing), lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Iliffe & Sons 1921
KEYWORDS: arts history photography f.j. mortimer
The Island Melanesians
octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 326pp, illus, VG+ in VG+ d/w (light rubbing and wear)
PUBLISHER: Blackwell 1997
KEYWORDS: history archaeology anthropology matthew springs island melanesians
A Popular Account of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
duodecimo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board and spine, blind rule to front board, frontispiece, vii + 436pp + 32pp adverts, illus, VG- (ex-library with usual treatments, soiling and rubbing to boards, bruising to corners and head and tail of spine, front and rear gutters cracked, foxing throughout esp. to eps, light tanning to pages)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1875
KEYWORDS: history david livingstone south africa religion travel
Ginger: The Military Career of Pte. Ginger Jordan, B.E.F.
scarce first edition, hardback, foxing, lacks 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: robert scott roxburghe house patternoster row
KEYWORDS: specials military history captain horace wyndam private ginger jordan biography
City of Dreams
paperback, some creasing (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 cost.
PUBLISHER: bantam books
KEYWORDS: specials literature fiction historical history beverly swerling
Simla Past and Present (second edition)
facsimile reproduction, hardcover octavo (VG+) lacks d/w; 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: The Times Press 2000
KEYWORDS: history edward j. buck simla india specials