Books - "history"
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Southern Journeys: South Island People and Places
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: Random House 2001
KEYWORDS: specials Roy Sinclair New Zealand South Island people places travel landscape people local history
No Place to Linger: Saga of a Wartime Atlantic Kiwi
Super octavo, grey boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xii, 220pp, illus, VG+ (v slight foxing to page edges) in VG d/w (tanning to interior, rubbing to rear)
PUBLISHER: Holmwork Publishers 1985
KEYWORDS: John Holm history second world war WWII World War Two New Zealand Royal Navy escorts merchant navy convoys Atlantic autobiography
Trees, Timber and Tranquility
Small quarto, green heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, green eps, 144pp, illus, nr fine (v slight bruising to lower spine) in nr fine d/w (bruising to upper rear corner)
PUBLISHER: C Rex Monigatti Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: Lindsay Poole botany forestry trees New Zealand forestry history autobiography
Pamir: The Story of a Sailing Ship
First edition, small octavo, illus heavy card boards, 48pp, illus, VG- (some plates loose, light scuffing and soiling, light tanning within, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1949
KEYWORDS: first edition Sydney D Waters Pamir New Zealand sailing ship history four-master Finland
A Concise Economic History of Britain from the Earliest Times to 1750 (Vol 1); from 1750 to Recent Times (Vol 2)
Two-volume set, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xv + 324pp (vol 1), viii + 368pp (vol 2), VG (owner's name & address in ink to both feps, v slight rubbing to boards, scratch to rear board vol 1, browning to eps vol 1, light foxing to page edges) in Vg d/w (soiling & tanning, bruising to edges, 2cm closed to upper rear right corner vol 2)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1957 (vol 1) 1954 (vol 2)
KEYWORDS: Sir John Clapham WHB Court Britian history economics agriculture trade manufacturing industry
General Gordon, Soldier, Administrator, and Christian Hero
A Biographical and Historical Sketch of his Career in China and the Soudan
Duodecimo, green boards with gilt lettering & decoration to front board, frontispiece, folding map, viii + 202pp, illus, VG (staining spots to boards, rubbing to spine, bruising to spine extrems & board corners, foxing, esp to prelims & rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Ward Lock & Co (year?)
KEYWORDS: George R Emerson General Charles George Gordon biography military history China Sudan Soudan
Reinterpreting the Educational Past: Essays in the History of New Zealand Education
Octavo, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine & covers, 233pp, VG+ (slight bruising to lower cover corners, owner's name & date in ink to fep, damp stain to upper page corners)
PUBLISHER: NZ Council for Education Research 1987
KEYWORDS: Roger Openshaw David McKenzie New Zealand education history curriculum schools nursing civil service essays
The Art of Alfred Sharpe
Oblong quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, frontispiece, 144pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Auckland City Art Gallery / David Bateman 1992
KEYWORDS: Roger Blackley Alfred Sharpe New Zealand art artist colonial watercolourist biography art history landscape
Tales from Herodotus
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 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Herodotus classics history literature
A Short History of Church Music
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: Mowbrays 1977
KEYWORDS: specials Erik Routley music history English church music Anglican
1812 Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow
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 Perennial 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Adam Zamoyski Russia history Napoleon Moscow military campaign 1812
Jacob's Ladder: A Novel of Virginia During the Civil War
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 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Donald McCaig American Civil War history Virginia
Athletic Park: A Lost Football Ground
Athletic Park 1986-1999
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: Tim Donoghue Publications 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Tim Donoghue Athletic Park history rugby sport Wellington test matches All Blacks WRFU
The British Shotgun: Volume One 1850-70
Imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, nr fine (small stain to rear board lower edge) in VG+ d/w (slight soiling to rear, v slight bruising to upper edge & front corner)
PUBLISHER: Ashford, Buchan & Enright 1990
KEYWORDS: IM Crudgington DJ Baker firearms British shotguns evolution history development patent drawings contemp advertisements
Jaguar E-Type: The Definitive History
A Foulis Motoring Book
Quarto, dark blue boards with silver lettering to spine, illus title page, 712pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to uppr spine) in VG+ d/w (slight rubbing to upper edges)
PUBLISHER: Haynes Publishing 1989
KEYWORDS: Philip Porter cars automobile Jaguar E-Type XK-E engineering history sports car background design development specification
A Short Histgory of the Early Church
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: William B Eerdman 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Harry R Boer religoin theology church history Christianity
Portrait of Tasmania
first edition, hardcover quarto (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: Rigby 1974
KEYWORDS: australia arts cedric emanuel tasmania history travel specials
Historic Towns of New South Wales
hardcover quarto (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: Cassell 1979
KEYWORDS: australia arts cedric emanuel new south wales historic towns history travel specials
Onward and Upward: being the Life Story of John Kenyon of Slaidburn as recollected by him in his 87th Year
Octavo, dark green boards with gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, iii + 113pp, VG+ (slight rubbing to spine, browning to front & rear eps, slight foxing esp to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Self published 1961
KEYWORDS: John Kenyon Slaidburn Ireland autobiography agriculture farming history
I Shall Not Die: Titokowaru's War New Zealand 1868-1869
Octavo, illus light card covers, 323pp, illus, VG (light bruising and scuffing to cover edges, light soiling and rubbing to covers, light sunning to spine, light soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps and page edges, first 10 pages starting to come loose at the top of binding)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1989
KEYWORDS: James Belich New Zealand history wars Titokowaru Taranaki Maori European