Books - "history"
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The McGregors of Mount Linton
Super octavo, illus light card covers, 103pp, illus, VG+ (prev. owner's ink gift inscription to inside of front covers)
PUBLISHER: Shoal Bay Press 2003
KEYWORDS: VG Boyle MC Bradstock New Zealand McGregor family history agriculture farming Mount Linton Station
How Long Have People Been in the OK Tedi Impact Region?
PNG National Museum Record No. 8 1983
Small octavo, illus white light-card covers with black lettering, xii + 196pp, illus, nr fine (owner's names in ink to front cover)
PUBLISHER: PNG National Museum 1983
KEYWORDS: Pamela Swadling David Cook Ross Cordy Barry Craig Geoff Hope Dan Jorgensen Paul Wirz Papua New Guinea history anthropology
Holy Himalaya: The Religion, Traditions, and Scenery of a Himalayan Province (Kumaon and Garhwal)
First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards iwth gilt lettering to spine & front board & green decorative pattern to front board, frontispiece with tissueguard, decorated title page, 319p, illus, VG (some fraying to spine extrems & board edges, 3cm closed tears to upper spine sides, some staining to rear board, annotation in pen & pencil to front pastedown & to rear ep, moderate browning to page edges & heavier browning to sps, bookseller's label to front pastedown, some foxing)
PUBLISHER: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier 1905
KEYWORDS: E Sherman Oakley Himalaya religion tradition travel history anthropology
Gallipoli 1915: Tribute to Those Who Were There
Small quarto, illus white light card covers with black lettering to front cover & black tape spine, v + 182pp, illus, VG+ (some soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Patricia Townsend 1999
KEYWORDS: Colin Townsend New Zealand First World War One WW1 Gallipoli military history
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1967
KEYWORDS: specials Francis Chichester Gipsy Moth IV nautical sailing history first edition
The History of Greenhills
Signed & dated by author, scarce, octavo, stapled green light card covers with white lettering to front, 63pp, VG (light rubbing & bruising to spine & cover corners)
PUBLISHER: J. E. Bremer 1976
KEYWORDS: JE Bremer New Zealand Greenhills Southland history signed
Te Tipua Revisited: Te Tipua School Centenary, 1907-2007
Octavo, stapled illus light card covers, 56pp, illus, nr fine (price sticker to front cover)
PUBLISHER: (n/a)
KEYWORDS: Janette Buckingham New Zealand Te Tipua School centenary history
Facsimiles of the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Waitangi
Small folio, mottled red/white boards with brown lettering to spine & front board, unpaginated (but 14pp introduction + then mainly folding facsimile pages) VG+, prev owner's details in ink to fep
PUBLISHER: AR Shearer Government Printer 1976
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi declaration independence Maori history
Official Southland Guide
Lacks title page and two of the four folding maps, octavo, illus light card covers, 327pp, illus + folding maps, VG- (archival tape repairs to lower spine, moderately heavy creasing, staining & nicks to covers, lacks title page, lacks 2 of four folding maps, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Andrews Baty (printer) 1924 Bagnall F117
KEYWORDS: Harry Farnall New Zealand Southland guide reference travel tourism history
The Fortunate Soldier: With the New Zealand Army on Tongatabu 1943
Ex library, octavo, spiral bound with clear plastic front & rear covers over illus light card front, vi + 123pp, illus, VG (some library markings, slight tanning to page edges, upper & lower plastic spiral ring broken)
PUBLISHER: Malcolm FOrd 1996
KEYWORDS: MalcolmFord military history New Zealand army 66th Battalion Canterbury Regiment Tonga World War Two Pacific
Marist Brothers in Invercargill, 1897 - 1997
Uncommon, quarto, white light card covers, red & white lettering to green & white front cover, 96pp, illus, VG+ (v light tanning to cover edges, v light soiling to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Sycamore Print Ltd 1997 (Printer)
KEYWORDS: KPW Wanden New Zealand Invercargill Marist Brothers history
History of Lancaster Park Christchurch
Authors copy? Appears annotated, and with associated ephemera loosely enclosed, quarto, tan light card covers with green cloth spine, black lettering to front cover, ii +41pp, VG (some fraying to spine extrems, light soiling & creasing to covers, annotation in black ink to upper front cover, annotations in black ink to inside front cover & occasional blank pages throughout,
PUBLISHER: (n/a)
KEYWORDS: TW Reese RT Brittenden New Zealand Lancaster Park Christchurch history
Great New Zealand Railway Journeys
Oblong quarto, grey coth boards with silver lettering to spine, grey eps, illus title page, 176pp, illus, nr fine in d/w, VG-
PUBLISHER: Exisle Publishing 2008
KEYWORDS: Graham Hutchins New Zealand railway travel transport history memoirs
Tractor Nation: Working the Land in New Zealand
Quarto, illus light card covers, grey eps, illus title page, 240pp, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Random House 2013
KEYWORDS: John Wilson New Zealand tractors transport farming history
Southlanders at Heart
Imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, red eps, 196pp, illus, (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Craig Printing Co. Ltd. 1988
KEYWORDS: John Meredith Smith New Zealand Southland literature local history
Pubs, Pints and People: 50 Years of the Invercargill Licensing Trust
Imperial octavo, maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 176pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Invercargill Licensing Trust 1994
KEYWORDS: Clive A Lind New Zealand Invercargill alcohol licensing pubs bars history
Hey-Day to May-day: Bluff Registered Fishing Boats Wrecked between 1960 - 1985
Signed by author, imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 102pp, illus, nr fine in d/w, VG (light bruising to edges, slight soiling)
PUBLISHER: Bluff History Group 2009
KEYWORDS: Pat Christiansen New Zealand Bluff fishing boats ships shipwrecks nautical history signed
Swift and Sure: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals and Army Signalling in New Zealand
Ex library, imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blue eps, xvi + 296pp, illus, VG (usual library markings) in d/w, VG (usual library markings, taped to boards)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Signals Inc
KEYWORDS: Laurie Barbar Cliff Lord Royal New Zealand Corps signals army signalling military history
The Taieri Plain: Tales of Years that are Gone
Capper Press reprint, octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, ix + 238pp, illus, VG+ (v light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges, sl tanning to prelims, prev. owner's name in ink to fep.) in d/w, VG- (moderate rubbing to covers, small tears/ chipping to extrems of folds and head of spine, light sunning to spine, light soiling & moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1977
KEYWORDS: MS Shaw ED Farrant New Zealand Taieri Plain local history
Borough of Invercargill New Zealand Jubilee Year Book: 1871 - 1921
Imperial octavo, red paper wrappers, 39pp, G+ (chipping & bruising to cover edges, 4cm & 5cm tears with loss to rear covers, soiling to covers & pages, archival tape repairs to spine, rust staining from staples, some foxing to pages & page edges, light creasing to pages & covers)
PUBLISHER: The Southland News Co. Ltd (printer) (nd)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Borough of Invercargill jubilee local history