Books - "history"
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Otago Harbour: Currents of Change
Large quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus half- and title pages, 358pp, illus, VG (some loosening to binding) in d/w, VG (moderately heavy fading to spine, 2cm tatty closed tears to upper spine extrem & front upper corner, some foxing to inside)
PUBLISHER: Otago Harbour Board 1985
KEYWORDS: Gavin McLean New Zealand Dunedin Port Chalmers Port of Otago Harbour nautical shipping history
Day of Infamy
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: Corgi Books 1971
KEYWORDS: specials Lord Walter literature historical novel Pearl Harbour history
Act of God
Tutankhamun, Moses & the Myth of Atlantis
Super Octavo softcover (VG+) illus; 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: Sidgwick & Jackson 1998
KEYWORDS: specials graham phillips history detective
The Penguin History of the World
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 1997
KEYWORDS: specials jm roberts history modern age
Water in the Service of Man
With Sixty-Eight Text Figures and Eight Plates
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 1967
KEYWORDS: specials h r vallentine water science history economics
The World Since 1945
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 1990
KEYWORDS: specials te vadley history war ww2
Secrets of Mary Magdalene
An Untold Story of History's Most Misunderstood Woman
Paperback (nr fine) illus; 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: Orion 2007
KEYWORDS: specials dan burstein arne de keijzer mary magdalene history christianity
The Jewel in the Lotus
A Historical Survey of the Sexual Culture in the East
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: Tandem 1969
KEYWORDS: specials allen edwardes sexual cuture history religion psychology
American Dynasty
Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
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 2004
KEYWORDS: specials kvin phillips america history politics george bush
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self
Quarto hardcover (fine) in d/w (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: Harry N Abrams 2003
KEYWORDS: specials Coco Fusco Brian Wallis United States America nation photography history race identity essays
Morgan: First and Last of the Real Sports Cars
Ex library, 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: Virgin Books 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Brian Laban cars automobiles sports car Morgan company history automotive engineering
A History of King's College Choir School Cambridge
First edition, 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: King's College Choir School 1981
KEYWORDS: specials first edition RJ Henderson King's College Choir School Cambridge history
The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Seventeenth Congress: Abstracts September 9-15 2002
Large quarto, light card covers, printed eps, 325pp, VG+ (slight fading to spine, light creasing to cover corners)
PUBLISHER: Academia Sinica 2002
KEYWORDS: history philology prehistory archaeology anthropology ethnography abstracts academic papers
Mates and Mayhem: World War II: Frontline Kiwis Remember
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: Harper Collins 1996
KEYWORDS: specials Lawrence Watt New Zealand soldiers troops World War Two WW2memoirs oral histories military history
Ko Te Hitoria Paipara Tawhito me te Kawenata Hou a To Tatou Ariki, a Hehu Kerito
He mea whakamaori mai no nga reo o mua
Octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind stamped cross to front board, aeg, patterned eps, 404pp, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep verso) TEXT IN MAORI
PUBLISHER: no date or publisher
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN MAORI short history of the old testament & the new testamant & a fable & Epistles & Gospels Holy Bible Paipera Tapu religion Christianity
The Authentic and Genuine History of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand, February 5 and 6 1840
Being a Faithful and Circumstantial, though Brief, Narration of Events which happened on that Memorable Occasion; with copies of the Treaty in English and Maori, and of the three Early Proclamations r
Super octavo, green cloth boards with darker green lettering to spine, 42pp + map, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate rubbing to covers with some colour loss to the edges)
PUBLISHER: Capper Press Facsimile Reprint 1971 (of Govt Printer 1890)
KEYWORDS: William Colenso New Zealand history Treaty of Waitangi James Busby
New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919
Large quarto, illus heavy card boards with white lettering to red spine, illus eps, 111pp, VG+, in matching slipcase, VG+
PUBLISHER: Ministry for Culture & Heritage & Penguin 2013
KEYWORDS: Damien Fenton Gavin McLean Caroline Lord Tim Shoebridge New Zealand First World War One WW1 military history
The Christian Hell from the First to the Twentieth Century
First edition, duodecimo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind rule to front board, frontispiece, x+ 148pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep, moderately heavy browning to eps, light tanning to page edges) in red d/w, VG (some browning to spine, light creasing to edges, 1cm closed tear to rear/flap fold)
PUBLISHER: Watts & Co 1913
KEYWORDS: first edition Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Christian religion hell eschatology sin history
The Stranger Prince: The Story of Rupert of the Rhine
First edition in rare d/w, also with advertising band, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt coat of arms to front board, upper page edges stained red, frontispiece, xi + 592pp, VG (frontispiece loose, light fading & soiling to spine, light tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, 2cm hole to spine side, 2cm closed tear to lower spine extrem)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1937
KEYWORDS: Margaret Irwin Rupert of the Rhine Pauper Palatines biography Bohemia history English civil war
Rememer Cobden
Imperial octavo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 98pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to boards) in d/w, VG (2cm closed tear to upper spine extrem, tatty 1cm tear to upper spine, some chaffing, creasing to flap folds, sellotape residue stain to rear)
PUBLISHER: J Minehan 1986
KEYWORDS: Jack Minehan New Zealand Cobden Nelson history