Books - "history"
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life
First edition, imperial octavo, navy blue boards with silver lettering to spine, dark blue eps, 528pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (slight soiling)
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004
KEYWORDS: first edition Richard Dawkins evolutionary history biology science
The History of the Jews
Association copy of a youthful AH Reed - signed & dated by him twice at the age of 20, octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering & black decorative rule to front board & gilt lettering with gilt&black decorative design to spine, blind lettering & rule to rear board, patterned eps, xii + 627pp, illus with folding maps/floor plans, VG (tanning to page edges, bruising & small closed tears to spine extrems, moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: George Routledge & Sons 1878
KEYWORDS: Henry Hart Milman Jews Judaism history
Horouta: The History of the Horouta Canoe, Gisborne and East Coast
Prepared for publication by Te Nonoikura Haronga, Peter Gordon & Rongo Halbert family
Quarto, grey boards with white lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 496pp, illus with 27 maps towards rear, nr fine in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Reed Publishing 1999
KEYWORDS: Rongowhakaata Halbert New Zealand Gisborne East Coast Hawke's Bay Horouta Canoe Tairawhiti Polynesia first settlers history genealogy reference
Samuel Marsden: Pioneer and Peacemaker
Small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 24pp, illus, VG+ (v slight fading to cover edges, creasing to lower fep)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)
KEYWORDS: AH Reed New Zealand Samuel Marsden biography history children's school readers
Legends of Maoriland: The Birds of Maoriland
The Raupo Series of School Readers
Scarce Raupo series, small octavo, patterned yellow & red light card stapled wrappers, 28pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)
KEYWORDS: AH Reed New Zealand natural history birds Maori myths legends children's school readers
Legends of Maoriland: The Fish of Maoriland
The Raupo Series of School Readers
Scarce Raupo series, small octavo, patterned yellow & red light card stapled wrappers, 27pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)
KEYWORDS: AH Reed New Zealand Maori myths legends children's school readers fish sea ocean marine creatures natural history
First New Zealand Christmases: Tasman 1642; Cook 1769; Marsden 1814
The Raupo Series of School Readers
Scarce in Raupo series, small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 16pp, illus, VG+ (slight fading to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)
KEYWORDS: AH Reed New Zealand children's school readers history Abel Tasman Captain Cook Samuel Marsden
I Remember 1848-1866
The Raupo Series of School Readers
Scarce Raupo series, small octavo, patterned orange&black light card stapled wrappers, 27pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)
KEYWORDS: Ann Black Fraser New Zealand children's school readers history early settler's story
Out of the Mountains Books 1 and 2
The Raupo Series of School Readers
Scarce, two-volume set of Raupo series, small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 64pp in two volumes, illus, VG+ (v slight tanning to covers)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1938
KEYWORDS: IE Dickens New Zealand children's school readers history Milford Sound Track Eglinton Hollyford
The Wreck of the Osprey
The Raupo Series of School Readers
Small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 24pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to covers)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)
KEYWORDS: AW Reed New Zealand children's school readers history shipwreck Osprey
Deeds of Daring in New Zealand
The Raupo Series of School Readers
Small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 19pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to covers)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)
KEYWORDS: Leslie Lockerbie New Zealand children's school readers history adventure Huria Matenga Rawiri Korako Te Puoho
The Games of Ao-Tea-Roa
The Raupo Series of School Readers
Small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 27pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to covers)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)
KEYWORDS: Leslie Lockerbie New Zealand children's school readers history Maori games dances haka ti rakau poi potaka pirori ruru reti tutukai wi mutorere niti
Otakou: Early Days in and about Otago Harbour
The Raupo Series of School Readers
Small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 24pp, illus, VG (light fading to spine and edges of covers, light central vertical crease to whole booklet)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)
KEYWORDS: Hannah Chapman-Cohen New Zealand children's school readers history Otago harbour Otakou traders whalers Captain Cook Dumont D'Urville
Escape From Germany: The Greatest POW Break-Out of the First World War
Super octavo softcover (nr 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: Doubleday / Transworld 2011
KEYWORDS: specials Neil Hanson history World War One WWI First World War Germany POW escape
Merchant Fleets in Profile 4
With drawings to 1:1800 scale
Super octavo hardcover (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: Patrick, Stephens, Cambridge 1980
KEYWORDS: specials Duncan Haws merchant navy fleet Hamburg Adler Carr Lines history routes livery
Victorian People: Some Reassessments of People, Institutions, Ideas and Events 1851-1867
Ex library, first edition, octavo hardcover (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: Odhams Press Ltd 1954
KEYWORDS: Asa Briggs specials first edition ex library history Victorians Crystal Palace Crimean Trollope Bagehot Public Schools Trade Unions John Bright Robert Lowe Benjamin Disraeli John Roebuck
Butterfly Farmer
octavo hardcover (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: The Country Book Club 1954
KEYWORDS: specials L Hugh Newman butterflies natural history biology insects entomology
Letters of Herbert Cardinal Vaughan to Lady Herbert of Lea: 1867 to 1903
hardcover octavo ex library (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: Burns Oates 1942
KEYWORDS: specials ex library Shane Leslie Cardinal Vaughan Lady Herbert letters history
The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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: Thames and Hudson 1969
KEYWORDS: specials Hans Jaffe art painting history modernism
Rangiora High School 1884-1984: A Centennial History
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 274pp, illius, VG+ (slight bruising to lower fore-edges)
PUBLISHER: Rangiora High School Centennial Committee 1984
KEYWORDS: David Gunby New Zealand Rangiora High School centennial history education school