Books - "history"
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Missionary & Maori: Kerikeri 1819-1860
Imperial 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Te Waihora 1991
KEYWORDS: specials nola easdale kerikeri new zealand history treaty of waitangi settlers
A History of Drugs
Folio hardcover (VG-) in d/w (good+) 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 cost
PUBLISHER: F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co 1971
KEYWORDS: specials lydia mez-mangold history drugs medicine cultue art
Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southen New Zealand
Super octavo, illus light card covers, viii + 254pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: Peter Holland New Zealand history pioneers settlers agriculture ecology environment
Outcasts of the Gods? The Struggle over Slavery in Maori New Zealand
imperial octavo, illus light card covers, ix + 406pp, illus, VG+ (flecks of soiling to covers, light tanning, prev owner's inscription to fep)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Hazel Petrie New Zealand Maori history slavery
The Monstrance: A Waiheke Island Mystery
First edition, 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Silver Owl 2003
KEYWORDS: specials first edition david mcgill waiheke island new zealand history true crime
The New Zealand Family from 1840: A Demographic History
Super 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Auckland University 2007
KEYWORDS: specials ian pool arunachalam dharmalingam janet sceats new zealand history
Scandinavian Footprints: A Story of Scandinavians Settling in New Zealand
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Egan Reid 2007
KEYWORDS: specials margit brew new zealand history economics politics culture language scandinavia
At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Auckland University 2015
KEYWORDS: specials jennifer ashton new zealand history john webster maori politics culture biography
Art and Artists of Oceania
First edition, small quarto, purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to black spine, illus yellow eps, 308pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to boards, slight browning to page edges) in d/w, VG (some fading to spine, light rubbing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Dunmore Press 1983
KEYWORDS: Sidney M Mead Bernie Kernot Oceania Oceanic New Zealand polynesian pacific island micronesian melanesian art artists history anthropology first edition
Chinese and Exotic Rugs
Quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, x + 246pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, slight foxing & soiling to page edges, small nicks to edge of page 246) in d/w, VG (heavy fading to spine & parts of covers, light bruising to edges, slight soiling)
PUBLISHER: A. Zwemmer Ltd 1979
KEYWORDS: Murray L Eiland Chinese exotic oriental rugs rug weaving history collecting
Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger
With maps, illustrations, and plans
Folding maps at p148 & p303 & p266 all present, folding plate also present & complete, previous ownership of Captain W. P. Morgan MBE, octavo, dark green cloth boads with gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxvii + 320pp + 40pp book catalogue, illus, VG (bookseller's label to front board, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, slight rubbing to boards, light tanning to eps, light foxing & tanning to page edges, tear repaired with tape to p148 map, v light sporadic foxing)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co. 1898
KEYWORDS: Seymour Vandeleur Upper Nile Niger military history autobiography memoir
An Englishman's Recollections of Egypt 1863 to 1887 with an Epilogue dealing with the Present Time 1914
Ex library, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule to front board, frontispiece, xiv + folding map + 352pp + 16pp book catalogue, illus, VG- (usu library markings incl. label to front board, moderate staining & soiling to boards, slight fraying to spine sides45 & board edges, browning to page edges & eps, occasional foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Lane 1915
KEYWORDS: Baron de Kusel BEY Egypt history autobiography
The Official Handbook of New Zealand: A Collection of Papers by Experienced Colonists on the Colony as Whole, and on the Several Provinces
Original binding, octavo, light card covers with black letteringx + 272pp, illus incl. folding maps & illus, G+ (most of spine missing, section of text block loose, heavy browning to covers & page edges, number in ink to front cover)
PUBLISHER: Wyman & SOns 1875
KEYWORDS: Sir Julius Vogel New Zealand handbook reference history
Charles Fleming's Cape Expedition Diary, Auckland Islands 1942-43
Inscribed & signed by editor, first edition, super octavo, illus light card covers, 256pp, illus, VG+ (tiny stain to front cover)
PUBLISHER: McEwen Assoc 2006
KEYWORDS: first edition Charles Alexander Fleming Mary McEwen New Zealand biography Auckland Islands geology ornithology entomology science natural history
The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume VII Part I The Hellenistic World
Second Edition
This volume only, small quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 641pp, VG+ (small stain to front board) in d/w, VG, VG+
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1984
KEYWORDS: ancient history Greek Hellenistic world Ptolemaic Egypt Seleucid Asia Macedonia Greece Sicily Pergamum
Sarajevo: A Study in the Origins of the Great War
First edition, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to to spine, blind rule to front board edges, 303pp + 8pp book catalogue, VG (soiling & rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to eps, light foxing to page edges eps & prelims)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co. (nd, 1926)
KEYWORDS: RW Seton-Watson first world war ww1 wwI origins politics military history
The Lives of Colonial Objects
Square imperial octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, 368pp, illus, nr fine (slight rubbing to covers, prev owners name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Annabel Cooper Lachy Paterson ngela Wanhalla New Zealand colonial history objects artifacts essays
Auckland Cricket, 1841-1901: The Victorian Era
Inscribed & signed by author, quarto, illus heavy card boards, vii + 237pp, illus, nr fine (small dent to lower rear board edge, v light rubbing to baords)
PUBLISHER: Jim Allnatt 2008
KEYWORDS: Jim Allnatt New Zealand Auckland cricket sport history statistics signed
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
Octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, xv + 462pp, folding maps, illus, VG (slight soiling & rubbing to boards, large patch of damp damage to lower rear board, slight soiling to eps, v light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light soiling & rubbing, damp damage to lower rear, light bruising to edges)
PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington New Zealand 1952
KEYWORDS: JB McKinney medical units 2 NZEF Middle East ItalyNew Zealand official military history
The South Seas in Transition: A Study of Post-War Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Three British Pacific Dependencies
Octavo, teal cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xiv + 448pp, VG (light soiling to boards, ight bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing to board corners, light foxing to eps & page edges) in d/w, VG (light fading & tanning esp to spine, slight soiling, slight bruising to edges)
PUBLISHER: Australasian Publishing Company 1953
KEYWORDS: WEH Stanner British Pacific Islands Dependencies Papua New Guinea Fiji Western Samoa politics economics history