Books - "history"
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Africa Explored: Europeans in the Dark Continent 1769-1889
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: Penguin 1984
KEYWORDS: specials Christopher Hibbert Africa history exploration expeditions travel
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places
First edition, 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: Jonathan Cape 1998
KEYWORDS: speciasl Nadine Gordimer Stephen Clingman south Africa literary criticism essays politics history writers anthology
The Missionary Period in the History of Te Awamutu District
Te Awamutu Historical Society Bulletin No. 4
Quarto, light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front, 2 hand-drawn maps + 43 pp, text typed on manual typewriter, VG (light tanning to cover edges & page lower edges)
PUBLISHER: Te Awamutu Historical Society Incorporated (nd)
KEYWORDS: Eric J Laird New Zealand Te Awamutu Maori missionaries settlers history
Sacred Soil: Images and Stories of the New Zealand Wars
Quarto, illus light card covers, 160pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name to fep)
PUBLISHER: Random House 1998
KEYWORDS: Neil Finlay New Zealand Photography photographs photographic pictorial history wars memorials sites
Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People
Foreword by Laila Shukry El Hamamsy
Quarto, red faux leather boards with gilt lettering in black decorative panel, frontispiece, xiii + 146pp, illus, fine, in d/w, VG+ (price clipped)
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press 1973
KEYWORDS: ethnology nubia Egypt customs anthropology Robert Fernea Georg Gerster Horst Jaritz photographic history
Leo XIII Italy and France
First edition, ex library, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind lettering to front board, frontispiece, v + 280pp, VG (usu library markings, bookseller's label to front pastedown, 3 library stamps to fep, v light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Burns Oates & Washbourne 1935
KEYWORDS: first edition ex library Eduardo Soderini Leo XIII religion theology religious French Italian history Catholicism papacy pope
In a Class of Its Own: The Story of a Century and a Quarter of Teacher Education at the Dunedin Training College, Dunedin Teachers' College and the Dunedin College of Education
A Dunedin College of Education Anniversity History
Super octavo, purple boards with gilt lettering to spine, 220pp, illus, Nr fine, in d/w, Nr fine
PUBLISHER: Dunedin College of Education / Longacre Press 2001
KEYWORDS: David Keen New Zealand Dunedin teachers education training college of education centenary anniversary history
Photographic View Album of Whakarewarewa
Not in Bagnall, oblong super octavo, maroon leather boards with gilt lettering & rule to front board, textured cloth pastedowns, decorated title page, unpaginated but 16 pp of b&w photographs, illus, G+ (heavy rubbing to board edges resulting in loss of leather covering to front board fore-edge & lower edge and rear board corners, fading to boards, stitching to body of book loose, tanning to eps,)
PUBLISHER: Wildman & Lyell c. 1900
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Whakarewarewa geysers Maori portraits photographic pictorial history
Guide to the Hot Lake District Rotorua
Oblong super octavo, black leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, printed pastedowns, decorated title page, unpaginated but 16 pp b&w photographs, illus, G+ (rubbing, brusing & fraying to spine & spine extrems, damage to boards with loss of leather in two patches, heavy tanning to eps, stitching to body of book loose)
PUBLISHER: Iles c.1910
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Rotorua photographic pictorial history record travel geysers Whakarewarewa
The Graphic Series: Panoramic Photographic Pictures of Rotorua and NZ Wonderland
Second Edition
Long narrow oblong super octavo, illus light card sewn wrappers, unpaginated but 20pp b&w photographs, illus, G+ (bruising & creasing to front & rear card fore-edges, light soiling spots to cards, stitching to body of book loose, some foxing to rear pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Graphic CB & Co Ltd (n/d) circa 1890-1900
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Rotorua Rotomahana Tarawera photographic pictorial history travel scenery
Auckland
Binding variant of Bagnall T59, oblong super octavo, string-tied brown light card stapled wrappers with brown lettering & brown motifs to front cover, unpaginated but 11pp of tipped-in b&w photogravures - one of which is fold-out, VG- (some fading & staining to covers, bruising to cover edges, creasing to cover corners)
PUBLISHER: Tanner Bros Ltd (c.1910)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland photographic pictorial history architecture harbour
Kaiwaka: A Photographic History / Ngo Taonga Whakatapu o Kaiwaka
Quarto, illus green light card covers, printed eps, 100pp + folding map to rear, illus, VG+ (slight fading to spine
PUBLISHER: Quadrant Press / Kaiwaka & Districts Historical Society 1990
KEYWORDS: LJ Hargreaves RS Dowson JM Reynolds MR Wilson New Zealand Kaiwaka Pukekaroro Oneriri Hakaru Topuni photographic pictorial history photographs
Waiting for the Sun
The harrowing story of a peasant boy in occupied Tibet
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: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Mary Craig biography memoir history Tibet occupation China refugee exile
The Greatest Game Ever Played
Vardon, Ouimet and the Birth of Modern Golf
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: Time Warner Paperbacks 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Mark Frost sport golf history chronology
The Victims of the Mamertine
Scenes from the Early Church
Ex-library hardcover octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; 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: M.H. Gill & Son 1897
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials A J O'Reilly religion religious history
The Drugs Epidemic
First edition hardcover octavo (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: Tom Stacey Ltd 1970
KEYWORDS: first edition specials William Deedes drugs narcotics sociology society social commentary history
The Church in the Pages of Punch
Ex-library first edition hardcover octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; 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: Smith, Elder & Co., 1912
KEYWORDS: ex-library first edition specials D Wallace Duthie religion Church history Punch magazine
Life in Shakespeare's England
A Bookf of Elizabethan Prose
Ex-library 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: Penguin Books Ltd 1951
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials John Dover Wilson history anthropology sixteenth century England sociology Shakespeare's England
Revolution, Reaction, and the Triumph of Conservatism
English History 1558-1700
Softcover imperial octavo (VG) ; partial f.ep ; 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: Longman Paul Limited 1984
KEYWORDS: specials Michael A R Graves Robin H Silcock English history historiography
The Greatest of the Borgias
Ex-library hardcover super octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; 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 Bruce Publishing Company 1952
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Margaret Yeo biography religious history St. Francis Borgia