Books - "history"
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Stamp Curiosities
Octavo, dark green cloth boards with white lettering to spine & white & orange stamp motif & rule to front board, frontispiece, 285pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing & soiling to prelims, owner's name in ink to fep) with d/w folded and enclosed at rear, G+ (very scruffy)
PUBLISHER: Stanley Paul 1959
KEYWORDS: RJ Sutton postage stamps philately history anecdotes people errors designs frauds forgeries counterfeits oddities
Gaining a Foothold: Historical Records of Otago's Eastern Coast 1770-1839
Quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxii + 467pp, illus, Nr. FINE in d/w Nr. FINE
PUBLISHER: Friends of the Hocken Collection 2008
KEYWORDS: Ian Church Hocken Library Otago New Zealand early European exploration east coast Otago history sealing whaling Kai Tahu Maori Banks Peninsula to Stewart Island archaeology logs journals exploreers court cases land claims reference
The Conquest of Everest: Original Photographs from the Legendary First Ascent
Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary
Small quarto, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & blind stamped dolphin motif to front board, illus eps, illus prelims, 240pp, illus, VG+, in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2013
KEYWORDS: George Lowe Huw Lewis-Jones Mount Everest first ascent mountaineering climbing Sir Edmund Hillary Tenzing Norgay photographic pictorial record history Chris Bonington Kenton Cool Peter Hillary Tom Hornbein Reinhold Messner Colin Monteath Jan Morris Norbu
Desert Duel: New Zealand's North African War 1940-43
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 194pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name & address in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Reed Publishing 2002
KEYWORDS: Matthew Wright New Zealand 2nd Division Second World War Two military history North African war Egypt El Alamein Tebaga Gap Minqar Qaim
The Wellington Harbour Board Collection 1880-1980
Oblong quarto (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: Wellington Harbour Board 1980
KEYWORDS: specials Wellington Harbour Board New Zealand maritime history Port Nicholson port pictorial record photographic record
Who Killed the Clutha?
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: John McIndoe 1978
KEYWORDS: specials Paul Powell New Zealand Central Otago Clutha River hydro-electricity history government politics cover-up totalitarianism
Hall of Mirrors
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: Arrow Books 2002
KEYWORDS: specials David Sinclair First World War One WWI Treaty of Versailles history America Britain france Woodrow Wilson David Lloyd George Georges Clemenceau politics
Freyberg's 2nd New Zealand Division in Italy 1943-46
Quarto, light card covers with blue taped spine and black lettering to front cover, 244pp, illus, VG+ (tanning to cover upper edges, edge of spine tape unsticking)
PUBLISHER: Self-published / photocopied at Wright & Carmen's Copyshop 1990
KEYWORDS: RD Munro Second World War Two New Zealand military history Freyberg 2nd New Zealand Division Italy
Colonial Discourses: Niupepa Maori 1855-1863
Octavo, illus black & white light card covers, 250pp + 2pp adverts, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: Lachy Paterson New Zealand Maori Pakeha history newspapers press Te Hokioi Te Karere Maori
A History of The West of England Cloth Industry
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: Macdonald 1957
KEYWORDS: k.g. ponting history england cloth industry business specials
Mary The NZ Journal of Agriculture Anthology
ex-library, 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: MTF Publishing 2007
KEYWORDS: enid b.v. phillips new zealand history journal agriculture specials
Early Brooklyn
Oblong quarto, illus light card stapled wrappers, 48pp, illus, VG (owner's stamp to fep, fading to covers)
PUBLISHER: Millwood Press 1983
KEYWORDS: Joy Vickers New Zealand history Ohiro Brooklyn Vogeltown Wellington
My Life With The Gipsies
first edition, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 204pp, VG- (light wear, ink owner's details to fep, light tanning to eps, foxing to page edges, small gauge to rear board) in VG- dw (wear to extremities, with chips and closed tears to edges and small hole to rear)
PUBLISHER: Souvenir Press Limited 1960
KEYWORDS: first edition autobiography marta adler history sociology
Dredging for Gold
the history of two successful but contrasting enterprises; I Rimu Gold II Newstead Gold, compiled from authoritative memoirs and official publications
duodecimo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 83pp, illus including near fine folding greyscale maps to p.38 and rear, VG+ (v light wear, light tanning to eps) in VG d/w (light rubbing and soiling, small chips and closed tears to head and tail of spine)
PUBLISHER: 1964
KEYWORDS: j.h.w. mcgeorge gold history new zealand rimu gold dredging geology mining
Journal of the Polynesian Society, December 1945: Notes on Some Melanesian Wood-Working Implements
extract from vol. 54, no. 4
inscribed by author, octavo, light card stapled wrappers, 212-218pp, VG (light wear and soiling, v light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Thomas Avery and Sons 1945
KEYWORDS: signed new zealand richard rolston polynesian society history melanesia wood-working archaeology pa-site
Journal of the Polynesian Society No. 199 September 1941: Austral Islands Tapa
Extract from Vol.50 No.3
Super octavo, stapled paper wrappers, pages 107-113, illus, VG- (heavy fading & tanning to covers, owner's name in ink to front cover, rust staining to staples)
PUBLISHER: Polynesian Society 1941
KEYWORDS: Ernest S Dodge Polynesia Austral Islands tapa crafts history anthropology Peabody Museum of Salem
The First 50 Tests
softcover quarto (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: Don Neely 2010
KEYWORDS: new zealand history test matches cricket don neely specials
Auckland Minds & Matters
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 University of Auckland 2003
KEYWORDS: nicholas tarling auckland new zealand university education history specials
Faces and Voices of Papua New Guinea; A National Family Album
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: Robert Brown and Associates 1986
KEYWORDS: elton brash jose reis eisuke schimauchi papua new guinea anthropology history sociology specials
Supplement to Places Names of New Zealand
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1979
KEYWORDS: place names new zealand geography a.w. reed specials history