Books - "history"
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The Making of the Education System 1851-81
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: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1977
KEYWORDS: donald k. jones education history england wales britain specials
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia; A Book of Identification
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Viking O'Neil 1986
KEYWORDS: simpson day ornithology natural history australian birds avian identification specials
British Colonial Policy in relation to New Zealand 1871-1902; Volume 1 Relations with Great Britain and the Colonies
Documents from the Colonial Office Papers in the Public Record Office
This volume only, slim-line quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xlix + 357pp, VG (rubbing & scratches to boards, bruising & fraying to spine extrems & front board lower corner, occasional pencil annotations, staining to front page edges, tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University College 1956
KEYWORDS: DK Fieldhouse New Zealand Britain British colony colonial policy government politics political science history
The Ways of the Navy
First edition, octavo, dark blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & black lettering with black rule to front board, frontispiece, 288pp, illus with 16 plates, VG (bruising & rubbing to spine extrems & lower board corners, browning to eps, light foxing, owner's name in ink to fep & to lower page edges) in d/w, G+ (areas of untidy tear/damage to spine extrems with loss, missing portions to all four flap/cover corners, 2cm tear to lower front edge, rubbing, soiling & foxing, tidy 4cm tape repair to upper spine/rear fold)
PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co 1931
KEYWORDS: first edition Rear Admiral D Arnold-Forster nautical history Royal Navy naval lore sea ceremony navigation ships boats guns torpedoes trade routes submarines
The Founding of New Zealand: The Journals of Felton Mathew, First Surveyor-General of New Zealand, and his Wife 1840-1847
First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering & shield to spine, 267pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges and tanning to fep) in d/w VG (moderate wear to covers, moderate rubbing to spine causing small holes along hinges)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1940
KEYWORDS: first edition J Rutherford Felton Mathew New Zealand history surveyor-general Captain Hobson
Who are the Maoris?
Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 303pp, illus, VG- (lacks fep, boards detached at rear & spine but still intact at front hinge, fading & staining to boards, bruising & rubbing to spine extrems & board edges & corners, scribble in red crayon to front pastedown, tanning to page edges & eps, foxing)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs (year?)
KEYWORDS: Alfred K Newman New Zealand Maori history myths legends religion ethnology origins
Medical Practice in Otago and Southland in the Early Days
A Description of the Manner of Life, Trials, and Difficulties of some of the Pioneer Doctors, of the Places in which, and of the People among whom, they Laboured
FIRST EDITION, Octavo, green textured buckram boards with blind rule & gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, 304pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to spine, lighter fading to board extrems, light bruising to spine extrems, light bubbling under the buckram covering to boards, light foxing, pencil notes op title page)
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times & Witness Newspapers 1922
KEYWORDS: Robert Valpy Fulton MD medical history medicine New Zealand Otago Southland pioneer doctors GPs
White Stone Country: The Story of North Otago
Octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, VG+ in VG+ d/w
PUBLISHER: Capper Press Reprint 1977 (of North Otago Centennial Committee 1962)
KEYWORDS: Kenneth Cornwell McDonald New Zealand South Island North Otago Oamaru history
Testament of a Generation; The Journalism of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
ex-library, 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: Virago 1985
KEYWORDS: journalism biography history paul berry alan bishop vera brittain winifred holtby literature literary criticism feminism sexuality gender issues sociology specials
The Complete Yes Prime Minister; The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: BBC Books 1989
KEYWORDS: journalism politics jonathan lynn antony jay right hon. James hacker britain history specials
My Feudal Lord
with William and Marilyn Hoffer
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: Corgi Books 1995
KEYWORDS: biography tehmina durrani william hoffer marilyn hoffer religion pakistan sociology history journalism feminism gender issues muslim society specials
The Ark of the Covenant
ex library 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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999
KEYWORDS: specials history religion politics ark covenant roderick grierson stuart munro-hay
Quest for Adventure
First edition, quarto, blue buckram boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 448pp, illus, VG+ (1cm ding to front board lower edge, inscription in ink to fep, slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (2cm untidy closed tear to lower spine, 2cm closed tear to front lower corner, bruising to edges & corners, foxing & soiling to interior)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1981
KEYWORDS: First edition Chris Bonington adventure travel history Thesiger Chichester Heyerdahl climbing canoeing Bonatti Arctic Antarctic Nile sailing
The Seas Around New Zealand
Quarto, orangey-brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus prelims, 181pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to board lower edges & corners, owner's name in ink to half-title page, in VG+ d/w (fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1981
KEYWORDS: Kim Westerskov Keith Probert New Zealand oceans seas marine environment biology geology topography flora fauna natural history fish seals whales sharks dolphins shoreline
Look Over My Shoulder
Signed by author & artist, oblong slim imperial octavo, illus light card covers, illus eps, 92pp, illus, nr fine (bruising to corners)
PUBLISHER: Craig Printing Co 1997
KEYWORDS: John Husband Lynley Millar Southland Otago New Zealand art pictures drawing sketches history poetry poems verse
Paths Toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America
Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, xii + 230pp, nr fine (small stain to front board upper left corner)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: Ruth Berins Collier politics political science democracy unions labour Western Europe South America history
Potato Growing in Australia
duodecimo, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 127pp, illus, VG- (frontispiece loose, light soiling and creasing to covers, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs N.D.
KEYWORDS: australian agriculture potatoes g. seymour history vegetables gardening
The University of London 1836-1986: An Illustrated History
With a foreword by HRH The Princess Anne
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Athlone Press 1986
KEYWORDS: specials Negley harte University of London history academia
Scottish Arms, Being a Collection of Armorial Bearings A.D. 1370-1678
reproduced in fascimile from contemporary manuscripts, with heraldic and genealogical notes
rare and handsome two volume set, elephant folio, limited numbered edition (#12 of 60 large paper copies signed by publisher William Paterson), half-bound blue leather/blue cloth with red label, gilt lettering and rule, and five raised bands to spine, gilt upper edges, (volume I) xxv + 126 chromolithographic plates, (volume II) 425pp, both volumes VG+ (wear and rubbing to extremities, light soiling to boards, light foxing and soiling to some pages, small hole to front board and scratch across rear board of volume I, small stains to front board and small hole to rear board of volume II) THIS ITEM IS VERY HEAVY AND POSTAGE WILL ACCORDINGLY BE EXPENSIVE
PUBLISHER: William Paterson 1881
KEYWORDS: robert riddle stodart scotland scottish arms history armorial bearings heraldry genealogy family
The Gumdigger; The Story of Kauri Gum
Tidy ex-library, FIRST EDITION, octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 168pp, illus, VG
PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1948
KEYWORDS: new zealand history kauri gum a.h. reed