Books - "history"
Showing 11761 to 11780 of 43587 results.
Nursing in South Australia: First Hundred Years 1837-1937
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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: South Australian Trained Nurses Centenary Committee 1939
KEYWORDS: specials South Australia nursing nurses history centenary biography memoir hospitals medicine Year Book
The Albertlanders: Brave Pioneers of the 'Sixties
Octavo, maroon heavy card boards with gijlt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 436pp + x14 pp index, illus, VG (bruising to spine extrems, inscription in ink to front pastedown, foxing to page edges and eps) in G+ d/w (7cm closed tear to upper rear, 2x5cm loss to lower spine, tears to upper spine, 1x3cm loss to upper front, fading & soiling, some creasing, archival repair to d/w)
PUBLISHER: Copper Press Reprint 1979 (reprint of Brett Printing Co 1927)
KEYWORDS: Sir Henry Brett Henry Hook New Zealand history pioneers settlers Oruawharo Paparoa Matakohe Maungatoroto Port Albert Albertland Matilda Wattenbach Hanover Tyburnia
Feudal Britain: The Completion of the Medieval Kingdom 1066-1314
Super octavo 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: Edward Arnold 1971
KEYWORDS: specials GWS Barrow British history Wales Scotland England
Impressions of Steam
Photography by Robert Berlzer, Robert Carlisle, Ken Macleay, Ted Payne, Arthur Wills
Oblong imperial 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1975
KEYWORDS: specials Shane McCarthy railways steam trains locomotives New Zealand Australia photographs history steam engines transport
William Shakespeare
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: Mercury Books 1964
KEYWORDS: specials John Masefield William Shakespeare biography history literary criticism drama literature poetry verse poems theatre
Mrs Grundy: Studies in English Prudery
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: Corgi Books 1965
KEYWORDS: specials Peter Fryer England English history sexuality behaviour taboo inhibition prudery language
Urban Village: The Story of Ponsonby, Freemans Bay and St Mary's Bay
Oblong quarto softcover (Nr 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Random House 2008
KEYWORDS: specials Jenny Carlyon Diana Morrow New Zealand Auckland Ponsonby Freemans Bay St Mary's Bay history architecture buildings churches villas neighbourhoods commerce businesses
New Zealand Tragedies: Fires and Firefighting
Imperial 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: Grantham House 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Gavin McLean New Zealand history fires volunteer fire brigades fire engines disasters tragedies
Ann Illustrated Guide to British Jugs from Medieval Times to the Twentieth Century
Quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, nr fine (very very slight bruising to lower spine) in VG d/w (soiling to front edges, rubbing to rear)
PUBLISHER: Swan Hill Press 1997
KEYWORDS: RK Henrywood British jugs design history pottery ceramics collectibles collectors illustrated guide dealers reference
A History of Modern China
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: Pelican Penguin 1956
KEYWORDS: specials Kenneth Latourette China history
As I Was Going Down Sackville Street
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: Penguin 1954
KEYWORDS: specials Oliver St John Gogarty Irish literature Ireland biography Dublin history
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
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: Penguin Biographies 1971
KEYWORDS: specials Andre Maurois Honore de Balzac biography French literary history
Travel in New Zealand: The Island Dominion: Its Life and Scenery, Pleasure-routes and sport
Volume II The South Island
This volume only, octavo, illustrated heavy card boards, frontispiece, ii adverts + xii + 178pp, illus, VG (rubbing & fraying to spine, soiling spots to boards, browning to front and rear eps, gutter at vii cracked)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1926
KEYWORDS: James Cowan New Zealand tourism travel history South Island
The History of the Last Quarter-Century in the United States 1870-1895
With more than 350 illustrations
2 volume set (HEAVY), super octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering & design (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: Charles Scribner's Sons 1896
KEYWORDS: specials Benjamin E Andrews American history USA 1870-1895
Airliner Colour History: McDonnell Douglas MD-80 & MD-90
Quarto, illustrated light card covers with white lettering to spine, 128pp, illustrated, nr fine (slight soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: MBI Publishing Company 1999
KEYWORDS: Arthur Pearcy McDonnell Douglas aircraft aeroplanes civil aviation history MD80 MD90 Pratt & Whitney
In Crocodile Land; Wandering in Northern Australia
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: Angus and Robertson 1950
KEYWORDS: history australia travel exploration ion l. idriess specials
Wellington Railway Memories
paperback quarto (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: nz railway and locomotive society inc.
KEYWORDS: specials wellington railway trains history transport travel
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
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: Penguin 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Orlando Figes Russia history sociology politics communism
Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth
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: Oxford University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: alexander fleming biography medical history penicillin gwyn fleming specials
Basic Documents in Medieval History
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: Van Nostrand 1959
KEYWORDS: europe medieval history norton downs specials