Books - "history"
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The Official Story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Volume 1: Canada in Flanders
This volume only, octavo, red cloth boards with blind lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, xx + 243pp + 2pp appendix + 4pp press opinions, VG- (browning to spine, some fading & staining to boards, light tanning to page edges, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1916 (12th edition)
KEYWORDS: Canada Canadian expeditionary force military history World War One WW1
The Official Story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Volume 2: Canada in Flanders
This volume only, octavo, red cloth boards with blind lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, xx + 258pp, VG- (browning & fading to spine, some fading & staining to boards, light tanning to page edges, owner's name in pencil to front paste down, heavy browning to eps, rear hinge paper cracked)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1917
KEYWORDS: Canada Canadian expeditionary force military history World War One WW1
General History of the Science and Practice of Music (A New Edition with the Author's Posthumous Notes)
Three-volume set, original binding, small quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards & spine, xxxvi + 963pp + 16pp index & appendix (vols 1 & 2), frontispiece with tissueguard + 59 full-page plates with tissueguards (vol.3), VG- for vols 1&2 (heavy scuffing with some loss of surface to boards & spines, some staining to boards, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, moderate browning & foxing to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, lighter sporadic foxing elsewhere), Vol. 3 poor (condition as per other volumes plus completely disbound but all plates present, 8cm tear to spine)
PUBLISHER: Novello, Ewer & Co 1875
KEYWORDS: history science music theory
Mountaineering from the Milford Road: An Illustrated History of the First Mountaineering in the Milford Region 1895 to 1970
Signed by author, super octavo, illus heavy card boards with blue lettering to white spine, illus eps, frontispiece map, 119pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Gerard Hall-Jones 2008
KEYWORDS: New Zealand mountain climbing mountaineering Milford history
The History of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919
Super octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, blue & red rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, vii + 364pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1921
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history First World War One WW1 Canterbury Regiment
The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine
Lacks map at rear, octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xv + 284pp, illus, folding maps, VG- (lacks map at rear, light bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning to eps, slight soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited 1922
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Sinai Palestine first world war one ww1 wwI military history
Singapore through 19th Century Prints & Portraits
Dated signed & inscribed to John Hall-Jones from the author, thanking him for assistance in the publication, together with loosely enclosed christmas card signed dated & inscribed by author to John Hall-Jones, and copy of a letter from Hall-Jones to author and holograph notes on the book by Hall-Jones, oblong quarto, green cloth boards with white lettering to spine & front board, pale greeen eps, 176pp, illus, nr fine in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Editions Didier Millet / National Museum of Singapore 2010
KEYWORDS: Singapore art prints portraits paintings history signed
Pioneers of Canterbury: Deans Letters 1840-1854
Copy of author F. G. Hall-Jones, octavo, cream cloth boards with brown lettering to spine, blind lettering & rule to front board, frontispiece, 312pp, illus, VG (light tanning to spine, newspaper clipping of review written by FG Hall-Jones pasted to rear ep verso, pencil annotations by Hall-Jones to rear ep,light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate tanning, light rubbing & soiling, moderate creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed (nd, 1938?)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Canterbury pioneers Deans family biography letters correspondence memoirs history
Sorrows and Joys of a New Zealand Naturalist
LACKS D/W, Signed limited numbered first edition, octavo, dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind lettering & rule to front board, patterned eps,252pp, illus, VG (slight rubbing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, v v slight fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1936
KEYWORDS: New Zealand H Guthrie-Smith natural history animals wildlife autobiography memoirs signed
New Zealand and Antarctica: Commission for the Environment
Imperial 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: P.D. Hasselberg 1983
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Antarctica history travel environment
The First Salute
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: Michael Joseph 1989
KEYWORDS: history american revolution
Slipper Orchids: The Art of Digby Graham
Quarto, 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: A.H. & A.W. REED Ltd 1983
KEYWORDS: arts painting natural history plants slipper orchids
Language: A Linguistic Introduction to History
Super 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: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd 1931
KEYWORDS: Languages linguistics history
Surveyor General
Octavo, staple wrapper (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: The Southland Historical Committee
KEYWORDS: New Zealand surveying history geography
The New Zealand Sealing Industry
Copy of John Hall-Jones Imperial 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: New Zealand Department of Conservation 2002
KEYWORDS: envrionment New Zealand Seals history
History of the Grenadier Guards
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: Gale and Polden 1951
KEYWORDS: England history Grenadier Regiment war
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade
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: Milford Oxford University Press 1919
KEYWORDS: autobiography history war
Britain at War
First edition, 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: Angus and Robertson Ltd 1943
KEYWORDS: sociolgy Briatin history world war two WW2
Notes on Some South Island Birds, and Maori Associations Connected Therewith.
Octavo, staple wrapper (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: John Mackay 1906
KEYWORDS: New Zealand environment birds natural history Maori
Copper Pipe-Line Services in Building
Imperial 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: Copper Development Association 1952
KEYWORDS: engineering copper pipelines history building