Books - "history"
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Wellington Harbour: A Heritage of Tara
First edition, square quarto, oatmeal cloth boards with blue lettering to spine, illus eps, illus prelims, 120pp, illus with pencil drawings & 12 tipped-in colour plates, VG+ (slight fading to spine, staining to title page lower corner, foxing)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1970
KEYWORDS: first edition DR Neilson New Zealand Wellington harbour history art drawings pictorial record
The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War
Super octavo, illus light card covers, 512pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to front cover lower corner)
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2009
KEYWORDS: Gavin McLean Ian McGibbon Kynan Gentry New Zealand military history letters diaries memoirs South Africa Korea WWI WWII Vietnam Gulf War
The Goose - History, Folklore, Ancient Recipes
34 recipes by Germano Poloni 41 recipes by Italy's most famous chefs
first edition Oblong Imperial Octavo (Nr Fine) 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Konemann Verlagsgesellschaft 1998
KEYWORDS: specials first edition Germano Pontoni Licio Damiani Corrado Barberis Rossano Nistri Claudio Carboni recipes italian goose history cooking folklore cookery cuisine
Over the Wide and Trackless Sea: The Pioneer Women and Girls of New Zealand
Super octavo, illus light card covers, 304pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Harper Collins 2008
KEYWORDS: Megan Hutching New Zealand history pioneers settlers women girls
The Elite: The Story of the Rhodesian Speical Air Service
Limited numbered signed edition in full leather (no.636 of 1500), imperial octavo, royal blue leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, SAS badge embedded in front board, aeg, royal blue eps, ix + 489pp, illus, fine, in blue heavy card slipcase, VG+, and blue leather Elite SAS bookmark with gilt lettering & motif, fine
PUBLISHER: Three Knights 1984
KEYWORDS: Barbara Cole Rhodesian SAS Special Aar Services military history elite fighting force counter insurgency Africa Mozambique Zambia Botswana zimbabwe
The Architect of the Roman Empire 27 BC - AD 14
First edition, octavo, red buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind rule to boards, xi + 192pp, illus with folding maps, VG+ (tanning to eps & folding maps, foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (tanning to spine & edges, fading to spine with loss of visible lettering, insect damage to spine extrems, browning internally)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1931
KEYWORDS: T Rice Holmes Roman Empire history Augustus Octavia ancient Rome
The Politics of Aristotle
hardcover octavo (VG-) in d/w (G+), 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: Oxford University Press 1952
KEYWORDS: specials Ernest Barker greek philosophy politics political science classics ancient history aristotle theory
The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378
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: Penguin 1986
KEYWORDS: specials Ammianus Marcellinus rome roman empire ancient history archaeology literature
The Elite Rhodesian Special Air Service Pictorial
Limited, numbered, signed edition in slipcase, imperial octavo, blue leather boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind rule to boards, SAS badge embedded in front board, aeg, illus eps, illus prelims, vii + 168pp, illus, near Fine, in blue slipcase, VG+
PUBLISHER: Three Knights Publishing 1986
KEYWORDS: Barbara Cole Rhodesian SAS special air services military history war counter-insurgency Mozambique Zambia Botswana Africa
Guide to Homeopathy
hardcover duodecimo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Brockhampton Press 1996
KEYWORDS: specials Brockhampton Reference guide homeopathy holistic medicine health history science index
Hokitika: Place of Return
Hokitika Borough Council 1866-1989
Octavo, white illus light card covers, 108pp, printed rear ep, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: West Coast Historical Museum 1989
KEYWORDS: Ron Fields New Zealand West Coast history Hokitika Borough Council
The Reed Field Guide to New Zealand Birds
Revised Edition
Octavo, illus dark blue heavy card boards, green eps, illus title page, 256pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to spine extrems, staining & nicks to boards, creasing to fep)
PUBLISHER: Reed Books 1998 reprint
KEYWORDS: Geoff Moon Reed field guide New Zealand birds ornithology photographic guide photographs natural history
The Farming of New Zealand
An Illustrated History of New Zealand's Agriculture
Quarto, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus title page & printer's imprint page, 256pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing/bruising to spine extrems and board corners, v light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (bruising to spine extrems, 1cm closed tear to lower front corner, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Australia & New Zealand Book Company 1981
KEYWORDS: Gordon McLauchlan New Zealand pictorial photographic history farming agriculture country rural life
Journey Through a Landscape: Paintings of New Zealand
First edition, square quarto, beige cloth boards with green lettering to spine, illus eps, illus half-title & title pages, 80pp, illus throughout plus 15 full-page colour plates tipped-in, nr fine, in d/w, VG (rubbing to spine extrems, corners & edges)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1975
KEYWORDS: first edition Don Neilson Ian F Grant New Zealand art painting drawings sketches landscape scenery buildings natural history
Egmont and the Children of the Mountain Mist
Imperial octavo, illus beige light card covers with brown lettering & Mount Egmont/Taranaki picture mounted to front cover, printed fep, illus rear ep, 32pp, ill) with b&w photos, VG (tanning & foxing to covers, bruising, nicks & creasing to cover edges & corners,
PUBLISHER: Thomas Avery & Sons (undated)
KEYWORDS: Herbert Mace JW Chapman-Taylor New Zealand Mount Egmont Taranaki photography photographs natural history scenery Maori myths legends hisgtory
The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction and Use
Second Edition
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Red River University of Oaklahoma Press 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Reginald Laubin Gladys Laubin Indian tipi North American Indian culture camping tents construction history
Disaster At Bari
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Glenn B Infield Second World War Two WWII military history Bari John Harvey Luftwaffe shipping disaster bombing
Louis Hay: Architect
Softcover oblong 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: N/A, undated
KEYWORDS: specials Peter Shaw architecture New Zealand history biography Louis Hay
Trafalgar
The men, the battle, the storm
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: Hodder and Stoughton 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Tim Clayton Phil Craig military history Battle of Trafalgar Napoleonic Wars biography memoir
The Flight of Rudolf Hess
Myths and Reality
Softcover octavo (NF) ; 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: The History Press 2011
KEYWORDS: specials Roy Conyers Nesbit Georges Van Acker military history biography Rudolf Hess Deputy Fuhrer aviation defection