Books - "history"
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Fifty Years Ago in New Zealand. A Commemoration: A Jubilee Paper: A Retrospect: A Plain and True Story
Read Before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, October 17th, 1887
Octavo, grey light card covers, frontispiece with tissue guard, 49pp, illus, VG- (light foxing to covers & pages, 2cm tear with loss to upper spine extrem, 3cm closed tear to rear cover, 1cm closed tear to lower spine extrem, small cosed tears along spine)
PUBLISHER: Board of Governors N.Z.I. 1888
KEYWORDS: William Colenso New Zealand history Hawke's Bay philosphical Institute
City and Peninsula: The Historic Places of Christchurch and Banks Peninsula Otautahi and Horomaka
Large quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, v + 200pp, illus, VG
PUBLISHER: Christchurch Civic Trust 2011
KEYWORDS: John Wilson Duncan Shaw-Brown Kerry Walker New Zealand Christchurch Banks Peninsula history architecture buildings
Gamekeepers For The Nation
The Story Of New Zealand's Acclimatisation Societies 1861-1990
small quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus, ix + 508pp, near fine in d/w nr fine (slight creasing)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: R M McDowall new zealand natural history pest control hunting fishing gamekeepers sport
The Fjords of Fiordland
Oblong quarto, illus heavy card boards with yellow and white lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 172pp, illus, VG+ (v light rubbing & scratching to boards, sl. cocked, sl. faded spine)
PUBLISHER: Craig Printing Company Limited 2002
KEYWORDS: John Hall-Jones New Zealand Fiordland Fjords history photography
The Opium Smugglers: A True Story of Our Northern Sea
First edition, octavo, yellow cloth boards with black lettering to sine, red decoration to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 273pp, illus, VG- (light bruising to spine extrems, light fraying & tanning to spine, some soiling to boards & spine, light foxing & soiling to page edges, v v slight foxing & tanning to prelims, frontispiece coming loose)
PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1948
KEYWORDS: first edition Ion L Idriess Australia Australian opium smuggling smugglers history autobiography memoir
New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive
Limited numbered, facsimile reprint, double elephant folio, half bound, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt coat of arms to front board and dark brown leather spine, light grey eps, illus title page, ix + frontispiece + 40pp + 5pp list of 1973 subscribers, illus with 24 chromo-lithographs + 6 plain lithograph plates + aprox 30 woodcuts, VG+ (some staining to boards, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Avon Fine Prints 1973 (Facsimile Reprint of Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1877)
KEYWORDS: Charles D Barraud WTL Travers New Zealand art scenery landscapes history
Sallust: The Jugurthine War
The Conspiracy of Catline
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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1963
KEYWORDS: specials s a handford sallust rome greek politics history warclassics
Hero: Stories of New Zealand
First edition, octavo, light blue cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 288pp, VG- (moderate fading to spine, slight warp to front board, moderate foxing to page edges, owner's name in red ink to front pastedown, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, review copy stamp to half-title page) in d/w, G+ (archival tape repair to spine to hold two halves of d/w together, portions missing to head & base of spine, closed tear to front, nicks to corners & edges)
PUBLISHER: Harry H Tombs 1935
KEYWORDS: James Cowan New Zealand history Maori pioneers
The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine
Super octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board and black decorative rule to front board, frontispiece portrait Sir EWC Chaytor, xv + 284pp, illus + folding maps, VG- (heavy staining & fading to boards, light fraying to spine extrems, moderate tanning to eps, light bruising to board corners, front & rear gutters loosening)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1922
KEYWORDS: Lieutenant Colonel C Guy Fowles Major A Wilkie First World War One WWI New Zealand military history Sinai Palestine mounted brigade
The Civil War: Together with The Alexandrian War, The African War, and The Spanish War by Other Hands
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1967
KEYWORDS: specials Caesar Jane F Mitchell classic literature war history
The Conquest of Gaul
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1960
KEYWORDS: specials Caesar S A Handford classic literature history
Fly and the Fly-Bottle
Encounters with British Intellectuals
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PUBLISHER: Pelican Books 1965
KEYWORDS: specials ved mehta interviews literature philosophy history england britian
The Persian Expedition
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1961
KEYWORDS: classics specials Xenophon Rex Warner ancient Greece Greek history
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A Historical Study
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PUBLISHER: Pelican / Penguin 1942
KEYWORDS: specials R H Tawney religion theology politics capitalism history
The Beginnings of Religion: An Introductory and Scientific Study
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PUBLISHER: Arrow Books 1958
KEYWORDS: specials E O James religion theology history
Music in England
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PUBLISHER: Pelican / Penguin 1947
KEYWORDS: specials Eric Blom England music musicians history
The Persian Expedition
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1949
KEYWORDS: specials Xenophon Rex Warner classic literature history
A Short History of English Literature
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PUBLISHER: Pelican / Penguin 1943
KEYWORDS: specials B Ifor Evans English literature history
The Music of the Louvin Brothers: Heaven's Own Harmony
Studies in History and Interpretation of Music Vol 61
First edition, super octavo, illus blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine & front board, vi + 153pp + 3pp book ads, VG+ (slight rubbing to board edges, corners & spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Edwin Mellen Press 1999
KEYWORDS: first edition Thomas L Wilmeth Ira Charlie Louvin Brothers music history interpretation American Gospel singing
From Emergency to Confrontation: The New Zealand Armed Forces in Malaya and Borneo 1949-1996
Scarce, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, imperial octavo, black heavy card boards with silver lettering to spine, green eps, xxiv + 528pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light scuffing to board edges) in d/w, VG (moderate fading)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: Christopher Pugsley New Zealand military history armed forces Malaya Borneo