Books - "history"
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Moriori: A People Rediscovered
First edition, second impression, quarto, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, 226pp, illus, VG+ (light wear to spine extrems and board corners, v sl foxing to uper page edges), in d/w VG (ligth fading to spine and upper edge of front cover, light rubbing to covers, light creasing to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Viking 1989
KEYWORDS: Chatham Islands Rekohu Moriori history archaeology
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: War Surgery and Medicine
Ex library, imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 779pp, illus, VG- (relatively light library markings, moderately heavy bruising & fraying to spine extrems, some staining to boards, some tanning to page edges, moderately heavy creasing & wear to photograph pages)
PUBLISHER: Department of Internal Affairs War History Branch 1954
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Second World War Two surgery medicine medical corps
Nineteenth Century Prints of Singapore
Oblong folio, dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, yellow eps, 96pp, illus, VG+ (v light tanning to page edges, slight staining to boards) in d/w, VG (some fading)
PUBLISHER: The National Museum Singapore 1987
KEYWORDS: Singapore art prints pictorial history
Fastnet, Force 10
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: WW Norton & Co 1980
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical sailing history Fastnet race yachting storm gale
Pioneers on Port Cooper Plains: The Deans Family of Riccarton and Homebush
First edition, signed by author on half-title page, octavo, red buckram boards iwth gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, ix + 178pp, illus plus folding family tree & folding licence to rear, VG+ (some tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning & foxing)
PUBLISHER: Simpson & Williams Ltd 1964
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Port Cooper Lyttelton Canterbury early settlers pioneers history
Isles of Solomon: A Tale of Missionary Adventure
Octavo, greenish cloth boards with red lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus rear ep 220pp, illus, VG (heavy tanning & foxing, slight staining to spine, owner's name & address in ink to fep) in d/w, VG (moderate tanningn & foxing)
PUBLISHER: Methodist Foreign Missonary Society of NZ 1956
KEYWORDS: Solomon Islands John Francis Goldie biography missionary religion Methodism mission history New Zealand
The Optimists: Themes and Personalities in Victorian Liberalism
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1980
KEYWORDS: England English Victorian history politics philosophy culture
The Significance of the Commonwealth, 1965-90
Octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (nr fine); 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: Canterbury University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Britain British Commonwealth CHOGM colonial history
The Dark Invader: War-time Reminiscences of a German Naval Intelligence Officer
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1937
KEYWORDS: German military history naval Captain von Rintelen memoir First World War One
A Show of Justice: Racial 'Amalgamation' in Nineteenth Century 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history legal systems law racism prejudice
Changes in the Pa
Octavo stapled 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: RE Owen Government Printer 1958
KEYWORDS: New Zealand children's literature Maori history primary school educational material
The Coming of the Pakeha
Octavo stapled 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: RE Owen Government Printer 1958
KEYWORDS: New Zealand children's literature Maori history primary school educational material
The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor
Super octavo, illus purple & black glossy heavy card boards, xvi + 208pp, VG+ (v. slight rubbing to boards)
PUBLISHER: Ohio State University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: English England Victorian history social class masculinity poverty
The Coachbuilder Book of Designs (Second Edition) comprising engravings of Popular Australasian Vehicles with Tables of Measurements
Large quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 260pp, illus, VG+ (slight taning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Facsimile reprint Dene Bindery 1979 (of JE Bishop & Co 1909)
KEYWORDS: transport coaches vehicles buggies carts gigs waggons traps brougham phaeton history
Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture
Octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, ix + 261pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: sexual difference gender identity sexuality history literary culture
Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London
Octavo, navy blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, iii + 301pp, VG+ (owner's name in ink to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (light tanning 0
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: London social history women's role gender studies sex marriage
Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan
Octavo, glossy yellow heavy card boards with black lettering to spine, xiv + 226pp, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2006
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese culture globalisation pollitics economics colonialism immigration essays history sociology
First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicde in Chicago 1875-1920
First edition, 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: USA America Chicago crime murder homicide history
The Virgin Queen: The Personal History of Elizabeth I
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin 1990
KEYWORDS: Queen Elizabeth I biography English history monarchy
Sea-Dogs of Today
Super octavo hardcover - scruffy (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: George Harrap & CO 1934
KEYWORDS: maritime naval seafaring history biography Carl Anton Larsen John Stewart Line sailors sailing