Books - "history"
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Picturing the Peninsula: Early Days on the Banks Peninsula
Quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering to black spine, 151pp, illus, VG+ (v slight rubbing to covers, v slight foxing to upper page edges)
PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 1992
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Banks Peninsula local history
Fiordland Underwater
Large quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, patternerd eps, frontispiece, 192pp, illus, VG (some fading to board edges, light bruising to spine base) in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Exisle Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Fiordland marine biology natural history flora fauna ecology environment photography
Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great
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: Cambridge Unversity Press
KEYWORDS: Alexander the Great biography history
Kursk: The Greatest Tank Battle 1943
Quarto hardcover (nr fine) 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: Ian Allan Publishing 2002
KEYWORDS: Second World War Two military history Kursk tank battle
The Waffen-SS in Europe 1940-1945: SS Hell on the Western Front
Quarto hardcover (nr fine) 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: Spellmount Ltd 2003
KEYWORDS: Second World War Two WW2 waffen-SS German military history Western Front
All the Queen's Men: The Household Cavalry adn The Brigade of Guards
Small quarto hardcover (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: Hamish Hamilton 1977
KEYWORDS: Royal British Queens Kings household cavalry guards regiments military history
Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 'Homelands' in Transition
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: Centre for Independent Studies 2007
KEYWORDS: Aboriginal Aborigines Torres Strait Islanders Australia economics sociology history
Sniper
Small octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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: Spellmount Ltd 2000
KEYWORDS: military history snipers
Three Families One Faith
Quarto, light card covers, 112pp, VG+ (v light rubbing & soiling to covers, v slight soiling to page edges, owner's name to f.e.p.)
PUBLISHER: Don Publishers 2003
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hall Latham Leeming family families biography history geneaology
Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans 1773-1815
First edition, quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, green eps, 590pp, illus, VG+ (slight soiling to page edges, light rubbing to lower board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 1997
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori European Pakeha relations history
The Last Emperor
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Futura 1987
KEYWORDS: china history biography Pu Yi
The Welsh TerrierL Leads the Way
Ex Library, Octavo hardcover (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: Doral Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: natural history welsh terrier
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Octavo hardcover (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: Chancellor Press 1994
KEYWORDS: natural history plants botany
Citizen Armies
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: Peter Davies 1973
KEYWORDS: history war
The Violin
Super octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, vi + 314pp, illus, VG (some fading to boards, owner's name in ink to fep, bookseller's label & number in ink to front pastedown, light tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate tanning, some creasing & closed tears to spine head
PUBLISHER: Calder & Boyars1973
KEYWORDS: music musical instrument history violins violin
Our Iron-Clad Ships; Their Qualities, Performances, and Cost, with Chapters on Turret Ships, Iron-Clad Rams etc
First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, folding frontispiece, xxxii + 332pp, illus, VG- (moderate brusing & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, some staining & fading to spine & boards, some browning to page edges, occasional light foxing)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1869
KEYWORDS: iron-clad ships iron-clads shipping warships naval nautical history marine engineering
Domestic Medicine, or A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines; with Observations concerning Sea-bathing, and on the Use of The Mineral Waters
Octavo, full polished leather binding with gilt lettering in black panel to spine, xl + 798pp + 1pp book ads, VG- (some damage to spine sides & extrems, front hinge cracked, some staining & wear to boards & spine, front hinge cracking, soiling to eps, heavy browning & foxing to page edges, lighter foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: T Cadell & W Davies, J Johnson et al 1807
KEYWORDS: history of medicine disease treatment health cures illness
The Summer Ships being an account of the first six ships sent out from England by the Canterbury Association in 1850-1851
Large quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, red lettering to spine & front cover, printed eps, frontispiece, 358pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 2001
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury pioneers ships
Isolated Lines: A History of the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board and Eastland Energy Ltd
Large quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, x + 326pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (fading to spine, light rubbing, moderate creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Eastland Energy 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Poverty Bay Eastland energy electricity power generation industry history
The Holy Barbarians
First UK edition, super octavo, red boards with brown lettering to spine, 318pp, illus, VG- (some light staining to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy browning to eps, owner's name in ink to fep, some foxing)
PUBLISHER: WH Allen 1960
KEYWORDS: beat generation music history