Books - "history"
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The Garden Pest Book; An Illustrated New Zealand Guide
drawings by Karen Mason
softcover imperial 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Reed 1982
KEYWORDS: new zealand natural history gardening bugs insects entomology bruce chapman david penman karen mason specials
Man to Man
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Whitcoulls Publishers 1980
KEYWORDS: auotbiography new zealand politics union tom skinner john berry history specials
Richard III
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Signet Classics 1964
KEYWORDS: specials william shakespeare plays history theatre literature
Boswell's Life of Johnson Volume One
this vol. only, 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1960
KEYWORDS: specials james boswell samuel johnson history biography literature
The Holt Report
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Age Insight
KEYWORDS: specials crime history report australia harold holt john larkin geoffrey barker
Pope Joan
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Consul Books 1960
KEYWORDS: specials popes history scandal lawrence durrell religion
Camden's Britannia - Surrey and Sussex
hardback super octavo with d/w (NEAR 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1977
KEYWORDS: specials surrey sussex britain geography history travel topography
R.L.S.: A Life Study
hardback octavo with 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1980
KEYWORDS: specials robert louis stevenson jenni calder biography history literature
Turning Point - The Making of a Captain
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) with 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1998
KEYWORDS: specials photography rugby new zealand history sean fitzpatrick all blacks
The Quest for Paradise: A History of the World's Gardens
quarto hardback with 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Mayflower Books 1979
KEYWORDS: specials gardens ronald king culture history architecture economy
The New Zealand Alpine Journal; A Record of Mountain Exploration and Adventure by Members of the New Zealand Alpine
8 volume set, facsimile edition, limited numbered edition, runs from vol. 1 1892 to vol. 8 1940, octavo, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering and rule to spine, blind rule to boards, illus including near fine folding diagrams and VG+ maps in rear pocket, all volumes VG+ (light wear to extremities, light foxing and soiling to eps and page edges) in VG d/w (most volumes light wear and light soiling with v light creasing and tiny closed tears to edges, vol 1. with narrow chip to lower rear flap corner, vol. IV with small chip to upper spine), all volumes in protective plastic cover, a very tidy set
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Alpine Club 1975-1978
KEYWORDS: new zealand alpine journal club mountain exploration adventure travel history mountaineering sport outdoors
Royalty in New Zealand: A Visit of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cornwell and York to New Zealand 10th June to 27th June, 1901; A Descriptive Narrative
quarto, red buckram boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, blind rule to boards, patterned eps, illus half title, xiv + 391pp, illus , VG- (heavy wear to spine with tanning, fraying and chipping, internally the spine is coming away from text block, only partially attached at front, insect damage to fep, water stains to covers, light foxing) includes folding map VG- (creasing and foxing with large repaired tear)
PUBLISHER: John Mackay, Government Printer 1902
KEYWORDS: new zealand history english british monarchy royal family duke and duchess of cornwell and york r.a. loughnan
The Exploration of The Pacific
second edition, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt emblem to front board, blind-stamped emblem to rear board, xv + 411pp, illus including VG folding maps (light wear and creasing, v light foxing), VG (light wear, white mark to front board, light foxing to eps and page edges) in VG- dw (light soiling, numerous small closed tears to edges)
PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1947
KEYWORDS: j.c. beaglehole history travel exploration pacific
Year Book of the Arts in New Zealand No. 3 1947
imperial octavo, grey cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece tipped in, 171pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, pencil owner's name to fep, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: H.H. Tombs 1947
KEYWORDS: howard wadman new zealand arts history year book
Mr Surveyor Thomson; Early Days in Otago and Southland
first edition, octavo, green cloth boards, illus eps, 147pp, illus, VG in VG d/w (light wear and soiling)
PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1971
KEYWORDS: first edition john hall-jones otago southland history surveying john turnbull thomson
Year Book of the Arts in New Zealand No. 3 1947
imperial octavo, grey cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece tipped in, 171pp, VG+ (light wear, v light foxing)
PUBLISHER: H.H. Tombs 1947
KEYWORDS: howard wadman year book arts new zealand history
The Cossacks Burn Down the YMCA; Russia Revisited
first edition, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 208pp, VG (light wear and fading, v light foxing) in VG d/w (light wear, soiling to rear, small closed tears to upper edge)
PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1964
KEYWORDS: first edition eddy gilmore russian history cossacks politics soviet union
Pour Devoir A History of the Northland Regiment and its Forbears
octavo, blue buckram boards with black lettering to front board, 122pp, illus, VG+ (light wear, tears to front spine edge, light fading, prev owner's details in pen within)
PUBLISHER: Unity Press 1960
KEYWORDS: harry field military history new zealand northland regiment
The Blood and the Shroud
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Orion 1999
KEYWORDS: specials ian wilson turin shroud history religion archaeology science
Treatise and Handbook of Orange-Culture in Auckland, New Zealand
octavo, green buckram boards with gilt lettering and blind rule to front board, frontispiece, vii + 76pp, VG (moderate soiling and foxing to boards, moderate tanning to spine, light scuffing/fraying to spine extrems and board corners, moderate tanning to eps, prev owners ink stamp to fep, light foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: George Didsbury, Government Printer 1884
KEYWORDS: new zealand history agriculture geo. E. alderton auckland gardening fruit oranges