Books - "history"
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The Old Whaling Days: A history of Southern New Zealand from 1830 to 1840
New Zealand Classics
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: Golden Press 1975
KEYWORDS: robert mcnab new zealand history whaling specials
Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan
hardback (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: Jonathan Cape 1927
KEYWORDS: travel history lafcadio hearn japan specials
Japan an Attempt at Interpretation
hardback (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: Macmillan 1913
KEYWORDS: lafcadio hearn japan japanese culture history specials
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: second series
hardback (VG) lacks d/w, lacks fep; 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: Jonathan Cape 1927
KEYWORDS: lafcadio hearn japan japanese culture history specials
Greenhithe Today & Yesterday (second edition)
stapled wrappers (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: Heritage Press
KEYWORDS: new zealand history greenhithe specials
Thomas Dagger Adams: Professor of Classics, University of Otago
hardcover octavo (VG) d/w (VG-, closed tears); 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 1954
KEYWORDS: biography new zealand history university of otago classics thomas dagger adams lucy s. adams specials
Occidental Gleanings
sketches and essays now first collected by Albert Mordell
two volume set, some pages uncut, octavo, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering and rule to spine, blind rule to boards, blind-stamped device to rear boards, (I) xlii + 275pp (II) ix + 289pp, VG (pencil markings to eps, tanning esp. to eps, occasional foxing esp. to prelims and page edges, light bruising to head and tail of spine), lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1925
KEYWORDS: lafcadio hearn travel japan japanese culture history
Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
first edition, small octavo, green buckram boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, black rule to front board and embossed design, frontispiece, viii + 251pp + 2pp, illus, VG (light wear and fading to boards, wear to page edges, light tanning, small closed tear to lower prelim page edge, ink owner's name to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1902
KEYWORDS: lafcadio hearn history travel japan japanese culture
King George III and the Politicians
The Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford 1951-52
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1959
KEYWORDS: specials Richard Pares English history King George III politics government patronage Lords Commons Cabinet 1760-1832
Reports of the Various Expeditions Fitted Out to Relieve, or Ascertain the Fate of Messrs. Burke and Wills (extract of the Royal Geographical Society Session 1862-63
Octavo contemporary rebind with leather corners and marbled boards, with modern cloth spine and gilt labelling, 153pp, folding map, VG (externally scuffed and worn but contents clean and tidy
PUBLISHER: Royal Geographical Society 1864
KEYWORDS: travel history exploratiuon australia burke wills w h norman j m'kinlay
Imagining a Universe of Majesty; The Formation of the European Character 750-1150 AD
first edition quarto sliver grey cloth boards with white lettering to spine, viii + 333pp, illus FINE in near FINE d/w
PUBLISHER: peter g tchamitch 1992
KEYWORDS: history z g tchamitch religion christianity
Odd Men In: A Gallery of Cricket Eccentrics
introduction by Leo Cooper
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: The Pavilion Library 1985
KEYWORDS: sport cricket a.a. thomson history biography specials leo cooper
Chain of Fire
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: Puffin 2004
KEYWORDS: children's literature south africa apartheid history beverley naidoo specials
The Death of British Agriculture; The Wanton Destruction of a Key Industry
introduction by Christopher Booker
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: Duckworth 2001
KEYWORDS: british history agriculture industry economics richard a.e. north christopher booker specials
Our Motoring Heritage
softcover 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: T.T.N. Coleridge 1973
KEYWORDS: t.t.n. coleridge new zealand history motoring heritage motor vehicles sport classic cars specials
Preston Fight or the Insurrection of 1715
hardback (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: Charles H. Kelly
KEYWORDS: w.h. ainsworth history preston fight insurrection 1715 britain england specials literature historical fiction
The King's England: Cambridgeshire: The Country of the Fens
hardback (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: Hodder and Stoughton 1939
KEYWORDS: the king's england english history cambridgeshire fens arthur mee specials
The King's England: Cornwall
hardback (VG) d/w (VG) in plastic wrapper; 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1967
KEYWORDS: the king's england english history cornwall arthur mee specials
EBLA: An Archaeological Enigma
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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1979
KEYWORDS: history archaeology chaim bermant michael weitzman ebla specials
From Oasis into Italy: War Poems and Diaries from Africa and Italy 1940-1946
softcover super 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: Shepheard-Walwyn 1983
KEYWORDS: military history italy africa literature war diaries poems field marshall lord carver general sir john hackett specials