Books - "history"
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Ships and Ship Models
hardcover super 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: Model and Allied Publications 1977
KEYWORDS: specials David R MacGregor journal ships boats sea vessels maritime history models modelling
Passage To The New World: Packet Ships and Irish Famine Emigrants 1945-1851
hardcover super octavo (nr fine) in d/w (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: P. M. Heaton Publishing 1995
KEYWORDS: specials David Hollett ships maritime history vessels boats ireland
The Marist Brothers In New Zealand, Fiji & Samoa 1876-1976
hardcover super 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: New Zealand Marist Brothers' Trust Board 1976
KEYWORDS: specials Pat Gallagher new zealand history polynesia church religion theology
The Falsification of Macedonian History
softcover imperial octavo (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: Athens 1984
KEYWORDS: specials Nicolas K Martis history macedonia archaeology anthropology greece
Johnny Enzed: The New Zealand Soldier in the First World War 1914-1918
Super octavo, blue boards with sivler lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, 720pp, illus, Nr fine, in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Exisle 2015
KEYWORDS: Glyn Harper New Zealand military history First World War One WWI letters diaries memoir biography
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Supply Company
Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 372pp, illus + folding maps, VG (light rubbing to spine extrems, moderate tanning to prelims & page edges, light soiling & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: War History Branch Dept Internal Affairs 1955
KEYWORDS: PW Bates New Zealand military history Second World War Two WW2 Supply Company
Liquid Gold Ships: A History of the Tanker 1859-1984
Super octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, viii + 181pp, illus, nr fine (bookseller's label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (some creasing to upper edges)
PUBLISHER: Lloyd's of London Press 1985
KEYWORDS: Mike Ratcliffe transport shipping history petroleum oil tankers vessels international trade
The Ploughing and the Sowing: A History of the Merrivale-Waiau Presbyterian Church
Octavo, illus blue light card covers with darker blue lettering to front cover, 96pp, illus, VG- (light soiling to covers, light tanning to spine & cover edges, label residue stain to front cover lower edge, notation in ink to front cover lower edge, some creasing to lower corner of first few pages)
PUBLISHER: Merrivale-Waiau Presbyterian Church Jubilee Committee 1980
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Southland Merrivale Waiau Presbyterian church history
The Churches - East of the Tamaki
Small folio, maroon light card covers with black lettering to front cover, 162pp, illus plus folding map, VG (fading to spine, moderately heavy dampstaining to rear cover, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Anglican,Methodist, Presbyterian & RC Churches East of the Tamaki (?) 1973
KEYWORDS: Venerable HG Buckle churches history New Zealand Tamaki Presbyterian Anglican Methodist Roman Catholic
Tales of the Turi: South Hillend Centenary
Octavo, dark brown boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 359pp, illus, VG+ (6cm x 4cm portion of fep upper corner cut out, light label residue stains to lower spine & front board lower corner)
PUBLISHER: South Hillend Centennial Cttee 1984
KEYWORDS: Marjorie Cairns Frank Plunkett New Zealand Turi South Hillend history Taringatura Aparima Oreti River Southland settlers pioneers
The History of the Melanesian Mission
Ex library, dark blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind rule to boards, black coated eps, frontispiece, xxviii + folding map + 372pp, illus, VG- (some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, library labels to feps, moderately heavy foxing)
PUBLISHER: Isbister & Co Ltd 1900
KEYWORDS: ES Armstrong George Augustus Selwyn John Selwyn Bishop Patteson diocese mission church history Melanesia Norfolk Island Torres Islands
The History of Broadcasting in New Zealand 1920-1954
Quarto, blue light card covers with gilt lettering to spone & front board, iii + 203pp, VG- (heavy fading to covers, two 2cm closed tears to lower spine extrem & front cover lower corner, upper 1cm portion of spine missing, small nick to central spine, inscription in ink to fep, front gutter cracked/detached at staples, heavy foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand 1980
KEYWORDS: John Herbert Bert Hall New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation NZBC history pioneers radio wireless
Fading Fast: Images from New Zealand's Rural South
Signed by all three authors, quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering to red spine, vi + 160pp, illus, VG
PUBLISHER: Bunny Busters 2012
KEYWORDS: David Teele Rita Teele Val McMillan New Zealand South Island pictorial photographic history architecture buildings stations post offices farms
The Pictish Nation: Its People & Its Church
First edition, new fep to reinforce damaged original fep, imperial octavo, navy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 561pp, VG-(moderate bruising & fraying to spine extrems, light rubbing to board edges & corners, heavy foxing & tanning, esp to page edges, heavy browning to rear eps)
PUBLISHER: TN Foulis Publisher 1918
KEYWORDS: first edition Archibald B Scott Picts Pictish nation Scots history religion church Celtic Welsh Cymric
Invercargill 150 Years: 1856-2006
Super octavo, illus light card covers, 144pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Lloyd Esler 2006
KEYWORDS: Lloyd Esler new Zealand Southland Invercargill history
Catlins Bound: William McPhee's Southern-Built Sailing Ships, New Zealand 1860-70s
Illustrated with Shipping Notices, Photographs, Maps, Adverts & Paintings by Fergus Sutherland; accompanied by Music by Maritime Crew
CD loosely enclosed, imperial octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps & white lettering to blue spine, illus eps, 262pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Catlins Wildlife Ecotours 2009
KEYWORDS: Mike McPhee Ian Churcvh Fergus Sutehrland New Zealand Catlins Stewart Island shipbuilding maritime nautical history sailing ships
Violent Truce: A Military Observer looks at the Arab Israeli Conflict 1951-1955
Forewords by Major Gneeral Vagn Bennike, Lt Col WT McAninch, Major John R DeBarr USMC
First edition, octavo hardcover (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: John Calder Publishers 1956
KEYWORDS: specials first edition Commander EH Hutchison USNR history Israel Jordan Syria Iraq Arab-Israeli conflict warfare
Hawaii: Isles of Dreams
Uncorrected proof copy first edition, 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: Arthur Barker 1957
KEYWORDS: specials first edition Jacques Chegaray Hawaii history travel tourism culture
Being Indian: The Truth about why the Twenty-first Century will be India's
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 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Pavan K Varma India social history religion cultural portrait
Ashburton Borough: The Final Fifty Years 1939 - 1989
Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine, frontispiece, ix + 338pp, illus, VG+ (v slight bruising to lower spine extrem, small stain spots to fep lower edge) in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Ashburton District Council 1993
KEYWORDS: HC Richardson New Zealand Ashburton Tinwald history