Books - "history"
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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
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
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