Books - "history"
Showing 18341 to 18360 of 45116 results.
House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival
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: Crown 2010
KEYWORDS: biography history fashion Italy
Dynasty
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: Pocket Books 1996
KEYWORDS: Monarchy Great Britain History Biography
Ashburton County Coucil Centenary 1876-1976: Aspects of Local Government Growth in Mid-Canterbury
Octavo light card stapled wrappers (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: Ashburton County Council 1976
KEYWORDS: New Zealand local history Ashburton Canterbury
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A 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: Mariner 2000
KEYWORDS: lesbian lgbt america history activism
Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927
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: Chicago 1994
KEYWORDS: gender feminism culture history france
Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture
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: Oxford 1999
KEYWORDS: biography feminism literary criticism history
Uppity Women of Medieval Times
Square 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: Conari 1997
KEYWORDS: medieval history women
Threatened Plants of New Zealand
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: DSIR 1989
KEYWORDS: botany new zealand natural history field guide conservation
Stewart Island's Kaipipi Shipyard and the Ross Sea Whalers
SIGNED First edition, small quarto, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 273pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems, light fading to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight fading and scuffing)
PUBLISHER: JPC Watt 1989
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Stewart Island maritime history shipyards boat building whaling Ross Sea Norway Norwegians signed
Maori Dunedin
Imperial octavo, white light card stapled wrappers with black lettering, 56pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning and soiling to wrappers)
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1980
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin Maori history
Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xx + 586pp, illus, VG (creasing to rear cover, v slight soiling to upper page edges)
PUBLISHER: Harrington Park Press 2007
KEYWORDS: homosexuality homosexuals gay gender history
The Politics of Focus: Women, Children and Nineteenth-century Photography
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with white lettering to blue spine, x + 136pp, illus, VG (owner's name in ink to fep & rear ep)
PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: photography photographic technology history
Images of War: New Zealand and the First World War in Photographs
Scarce in hardcover, very large square illus grey boards with white lettering to spine & front board and black lettering to rear board, window cut-out to front board allowing framed view of fep illus, illus eps, 399pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Harper Collins 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand First World War One WW1 photography photographic pictorial record military history
David Leslie: A Story of the Afghan Frontier Volumes 1 & 2
Uncommon, two-volume set, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black rule & gilt mountain landscape motif to front board, dark brown coated eps, vi + 293pp (vol.1), vi + 303pp (vol.2), some fraying to spine extrems, some staining to boards & spine, wear to vol 1 fep, owner's name & address in ink to vol.1 fep, some browning to page edges, prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1879 (2nd edition)
KEYWORDS: David Leslie biography Afghanistan history
Cavalry in Future Wars
First edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, upper page edges stained black, xxviii + 305pp + 2pp book ads, VG- (moderately heavy staining to boards, some fraying to spine extrems, ding to front board lower corner, some tanning to page edges, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown, owner's name & address stamp partially scored out to fep, 4cm stain to front hinge, some foxing)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1906
KEYWORDS: mililtary history cavalry warfare war combat
Cambodia: The Years of Turmoil
Very large quarto, light grey boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, 160pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine,
PUBLISHER: Asia Horizons 2000
KEYWORDS: Cambodia history photography pictorial record photographs
Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle: Quatrieme Serie, Tome Sixieme
TEXT IN FRENCH, re-bound, v large quarto, yelllow heavy card boards with black lettering to brown cloth spine, original title page mounted to new fep, pages 225 to 321, illus with aprox 18 full-page plates, VG+ (some light soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Masson Et Cie 1904
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH natural history zoology carcinology crabs crustacea science
A History of Goldmining in New Zealand
Imperial octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 309pp, illus, VG- (moderate damp staining to front board, moderate bruising and scuffing to spine extrems, light foxing to eps) in d/w, scruffy (heavy creasing, chipping and scuffing with surface loss to spine extrems and cover edges, moderate rubbing and soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: RE Owen Government Printer 1963
KEYWORDS: New Zealand gold goldmining industry history
An Early Surveyor in Singapore
First edition, square quarto, blue boards with white lettering to spine & front board, 135pp, illus, VG+, in d/w, VG+ (slight fading)
PUBLISHER: National Museum Singapore 1979
KEYWORDS: John Turnbull Thomson Singapore Government surveyor biography history
The Renault File: All Models since 1898
Oblong super octavo, black boards with silver lettering to spine, black eps, frontispiece, 416pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG (moderately heavy foxing inside, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Dove Publishing / Haynes 1998
KEYWORDS: cars Renault motoring motorcar transport automotive history