Books - "history"
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Super in the South: The Early History of the Southland Co-operative Phosphate Co. Ltd
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: Southland Cooperative Phosphate Co 1983
KEYWORDS: specials Clive A Lind New Zealand Southland history Phosphate Cooperative fertiliser commerce business agriculture
The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages AD500-1600
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 1971
KEYWORDS: specials Samuiel Eliot Morison American history discovery exploration Cabots Verrazzano Gomez Cartier Gilbert Frobisher Raleigh
The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648: Bering's Precursor with Selected Documents
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: The Hakluyt Society 1981
KEYWORDS: raymond h. fisher history semen dezhnev bering specials
The English New England Voyages 1602-1608
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: The Hakluyt Society 1983
KEYWORDS: history exploration travel david b. quinn alison m. quinn new england specials
Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage 1585-86
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: The Hakluyt Society 1981
KEYWORDS: sir francis drake mary frear keeler history west indian voyage travel exploration specials
The Growth of the American Republic (fifth edition)
two volume set in slipcase, hardcover octavo (VG) d/w vol 1 (VG) d/w vol 2 (VG-), slipcase (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 1962
KEYWORDS: united states of american american republic history politics samuel eliot morison henry steele commager specials
From Tasman to Marsden: A History of Northern New Zealand From 1642 to 1818
Octavo, green cloth boards with black lettering to front board and gilt lettering to spine, xv + 236pp, VG (slight bruising to spine extrems, foxing & browning to page edges, browning to front & rear eps, foxing)
PUBLISHER: J Wilkie & Co 1914
KEYWORDS: Robert McNab New Zealand history Tasman Cook Kermadecs timber whaling te Pahi Boyd Marsden Bay of Islands
The Way We Were: Pictorial Memories of Early New Zealand: Dunedin / Coastal Otago
Oblong quarto, illustrated light card covers, illus eps, 80pp, illus, nr fine (slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Moa Beckett 1994
KEYWORDS: Valerie Davies New Zealand pictorial history photography Dunedin Coastal Otago
The Honoured Society
First edition, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering in black background to spine, 254pp, illus, VG (ex libris label to fep, foxing & fading to prelims & page edges) in VG d/w (heavy tanning & foxing to interior, bruising to spine extrems & edges, chipping to corners, 2cm tear to rear upper left corner, browning to rear)
PUBLISHER: Collins 1964
KEYWORDS: first edition Norman Lewis mafia Sicily history Italy Sicilian life
Norway
Black's Popular Series of Colour Books
First edition, octavo, light blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind lettering & blind tooling to front board, frontispiece, vii + map + 196pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG- (heavy damp staining to boards & spine, inscription in ink to fep, foxing & browning throughout) in VG- d/w (bruising & nicks to spine extrems & adges & corners, crease to full length of rear, tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: A & C Black Ltd 1928
KEYWORDS: first edition SC Hammer A Heaton Cooper Norway travel tourism history landscape
Dickens
First edition, super octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, xvi + 1195pp. Illus, nr fine, in VG+ d/w (slight rubbing to front, sticker residue to front)
PUBLISHER: Sinclair Stevenson 1990
KEYWORDS: first edition Peter Ackroyd Charles Dickens biography history literary criticism
The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
Paperback octavo (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 1992
KEYWORDS: biography frederick townsend ward military history caleb carr specials
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
Paperback 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: University of California Press 1996
KEYWORDS: henry thoreau biography literary history robert d. richardson jr specials
The Collector: David Douglas and The Natural History of the Northwest
paperback 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: Sasquatch Books 2009
KEYWORDS: specials jack nisbet david douglas natural history biography scotland nature pacific northwest
Nothing Like a Dame: A Biography of Dame Daphne Purves
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: Hazard Press Publishers 1988
KEYWORDS: specials dame daphne purves biography molly anderson education dunedin otago new zealand history
Journal of Ensign Best 1837-1843
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: RE Own Government Printer 1966
KEYWORDS: specials Nancy Taylor Ensign Best history diary journal Norfolk Island Australia New Zealand sailor sea voyage
The Banjo of the Bush: The Work, Life and Times of A. B. Paterson
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in plastic-covered 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: Lansdowne Press 1975
KEYWORDS: specials Clement Semmler Banjo Paterson biography Australia history literary criticism
Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
Volume 1 The Nineteenth Century in Europe: Background and the Roman Catholic Phase
This volume only, super octavo, royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges red, xiv + 498pp, VG+ (v slight bruising to spine extrems, tanning to front & rear eps, date stamp to front pastedown) in VG d/w (bruising to spine extrems, soiling to front & rear, price clipped, foxing)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1959
KEYWORDS: Kenneth Scott Latourette religion theology history Christianity Roman Catholicism
Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
Volume II The Nineteenth Century in Europe: The Protestant and Eastern Churches
This volume only, super octavo, royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges red, ix + 532pp, VG+ (tanning to front & rear eps, date stamp & bookroom stamp to fep) in VG d/w (bruising to spine extrems, soiling to front & rear)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1960
KEYWORDS: Kenneth Scott Latourette religion theology history Christianity Protestant Eastern churches
Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
Volume III The Nineteenth Century outside Europe 1815-1914: The Americas, Pacific, Asia and Africa
This volume only, super octavo, royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges red, viii + 527pp, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems, tanning to front & rear eps) in VG d/w (bruising to spine extrems, soiling to front & rear, tanning to spine)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1961
KEYWORDS: Kenneth Scott Latourette religion theology history Christianity church Americas Pacific Asia Africa