Books - "history"
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Deep Water Gold: The Story of RMS Niagara - The Quest for New Zealand's Greatest Shipwreck Treasure
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: SeaROV 2005
KEYWORDS: New Zealand nautical boats history shipwreck
The Maroons: Southland Rugby Representatives 1887-2011: 125 years
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Graham Latta Graphics 2012
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history rubgy sports
Stendhal: A Biography
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1974
KEYWORDS: biography history
Nasser: The Cairo Documents
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: New English Library 1972
KEYWORDS: Egypt Foreign relations history
It was Twenty Years Ago Today
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Bantam Press 1987
KEYWORDS: history sociology
New Zealand Bowlers' Annual, 1906-07
Super octavo hardcover (G); 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: W. Alloo 1907
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sports history Bowling
Ferguslei to Hawthorne:The History of North East Valley: People and Places involved in its Development
Octavo, illus green light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front cover, 32pp, illus, VG (light foxing and soiling to covers, prev ownership details blacked out with black permanent marker to fep, slight creasing)
PUBLISHER: Carole Hendry 1976
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin North East Valley Normanby Ferguslei Hawthorne local history
One Hundred Grand Parades: A Centennial History of the Gore A&P Association 1882-1982
Small quarto, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, 204pp, illus, VG (slight foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing, light soiling, fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: McArthur & Morrison / Gore A&P Assn 1982
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Gore A & P centenary local history
Merchantmen-at-Arms: The British Merchants' Service in the War
Large quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, t.e.g, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 260pp, illus, VG (owner's name & date in ink to title page, bruising to spine extrems, some foxing to page edges & eps, insect damage to lower edge of page 41)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1919
KEYWORDS: Britain British merchants Merchant navy naval nautical maritime history
Bunyip Says So: A Tale of the Australian Bush
Small quarto, beige heavy card boards iwth blue lettering & blue koala motif to front board, dark beige eps, ii + 96pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to boards & spine, heavy browning & foxing to page edges, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: New Century Press Pty 1939
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian children's literature natural history
Historic Worcestershire: Worcestershire Historical, Biographical, Traditional, Legendary and Romantic
Quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt city scene to front board, blind rule to rear board, marbled eps, frontispiece, xxiii + 329pp, illus, VG (moderate browning to page edges, light bruising to spine extrems, some scrating to rear board, occasional foxing)
PUBLISHER: Midland Educational Co. Ltd 1894
KEYWORDS: Worcestershire history architecture
Chinese Invasion of NEFA
First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with light blue lettering to front board, illus eps, 260pp, illus, VG- (heavy fading to lower spine & spine extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanningn & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, G+ (some browning, heavy creasing to edges, lower one-third of spine missing, tears with loss to upper spine, archival tape repairs)
PUBLISHER: Himalaya Publications 1968
KEYWORDS: China CHinese invasion NEFA military history
Yeomen of the South
Dated inscribed & signed by author to FG Hall-Jones, scarce, octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering to front cover & handwritten title to spine, 188pp, VG- (some soiling to covers, 1cm closed tear to lower spine, some tanning to spine & page edges, v. occasional annotation in pencil, light tanning, occasinoal creasing)
PUBLISHER: Southland News Company 1940
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Southland history
New Zealand Historical Atlas / Ko Papatuanuku e Takoto Nei
Folio, dark grey boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, 290pp, illus, VG, in d/w, VG
PUBLISHER: Bateman 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history geography geology
Doubtful Sound
Octavo, cream stapled wrappers with blue lettering to front, 16pp, illus, VG (some tanning & light soiling to wrappers, moderate annotation in pencil)
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily TImes & Witness Newspapers 1955
KEYWORDS: Herries Beattie New Zealand Fiordland Doubtful Sound history tourism
A Surveyor in New Zealand 1857-1896: The Recollections of John Holland Baker
Ownership & annotation of FG Hall-Jones, super octavo, navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 336pp, illus, VG- (moderate browning & foxing to page edges, some staining to boards, relevant newspaper cuttings glued to front pastedown & prelims, bookseller's label to fep, annotation throughout)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1932
KEYWORDS: John Holland Baker New Zealand autobiography surveying surveyor history
A List of the Flag-Officers of His Majesty's Fleet: with the Dates of their First Commissions, as Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear-Admirals and Captains; and Alphabetical List of the Post Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants of His Majesty's Fleet with
Ex Royal Victoria Yacht Club library, octavo, red leather boards with green leather spine, gilt decorative rule to boards& spine, gilt lettering in red decorative leather panel to spine, a.e.g, gilt dentelle to eps, patterned eps, 149pp + 207pp, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & boards, red leather title label to spine almost completely torn off, some soiling to upper page edges, Yacht Club label to front pastedown, some staining to eps)
PUBLISHER: M & S Brooke 1805
KEYWORDS: reference maritime nautical naval history
A Soldier's Diary: SOuth Africa 1899-1901
Note: someone has laminated boards. First edition, super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 366pp, illus, VG- (sticky-plastic covered boards, some fading to boards, heavy browning to page edges& eps, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown, owner's address stamp to fep, some foxing & staining throughout)
PUBLISHER: Max Goschen Ltd 1913
KEYWORDS: Murray Cosby Jackson autobiography military history Boer War South Africa
English Freemasonry in Canterbury 159-1959: A Short History of the District Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Canterbury New Zealand
Octavo, light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 89pp, illus, VG (some fading & staining to spine, lighter fading to boards, light tanning to page edges, small stain to title page)
PUBLISHER: District Grand Lodge of Canterbury 1959
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Canterbury freemasons freemasony grand lodge masonic history
Shell in New Zealand
Large quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece map, 267pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (slight tanning)
PUBLISHER: Shell Heritage Society 2004
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Shell company oil petroleum industry economics history