Books - "history"
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Te Maunga Taranaki: Views of a Mountain
Quarto 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: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 2001
KEYWORDS: arts painting history New Zealand
The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand's Culinary History
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: Otago University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: cooking New Zealand 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
A-Z of Plant Names:
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
The Thames Journals of Vicesimus Lush 1868-82
Ex Library, 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: Pegasus 1975
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Thames History
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
Grasshoppers & Elephants: Why Viet Nam Fell
Softcover super octavo (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: Outback Press 1977
KEYWORDS: History vietnam war military
The Return of the Ayatollah: The Iranian Revolution from Mossadeq to Khomeini
First edition, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 217pp, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to upper page edges) in d/w, VG+ (some fading to spine, light tanning to edges)
PUBLISHER: Andre Deutsch 1981
KEYWORDS: Iran Iranian history Ayatollah Khomeini politics
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
New Zealand Court of Appeal 1958-1996: A History
First edition, small quarto, blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, xxvi + 475pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, slight creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Brookers Ltd 2012
KEYWORDS: New Zealand law legal system COurt of Appeal justice history
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
Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies, New Zealand and the United States
Imperial octavo, blue heavy card boards with silver lettering to black spine, xxv + 629pp, illus, VG+, in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: New Zealand United States USA history politics justice
With the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine, being the Official History of the New Zealand Machine Corps
Octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 255pp, illus + folding maps, VG- (moderate staining & soiling to boards, browning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, some sporadic foxing)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltdf 1923
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history World War One WW1 Palestine France Machine Gun Corps
With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force 1896
Original binding, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 308pp, illus + folding maps, VG- (light browning to spine, light staining to boards, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems, heavy browning to page edges and eps, sporadic light foxing, creasing to some folding maps)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1989
KEYWORDS: South Africa military history Mounted Infantry Mashonaland Field Force
Encircled Lands: Te Urewera 1820-1921
First edition, second printing, quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, x + 670pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2010 (reprint)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Urewera Tuhoe history