Books - "history"
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Wanaka and Surrounding Districts: A Sequel to Wanaka Story
First edition thus, octavo, teal boards with gilt lettering to spine, v + 232pp, illus, VG+, in d/w VG (moderate creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Publication Subcommittee Upper Clutha 1990
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Wanaka local history
More Footprints: Still Further Glimpses into the History of Nelson Province
Signed by author, small quarto, illus green light card covers with black lettering, vi + 121pp, illus, VG (fading to spine, some dampstaining & wrinkling to lower part of last 40 pages & rear cover, slight rubbing to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: JNW Newport 1987
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson local history
Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators 1930-45
Very large quarto, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 360pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name & date in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Hayward Gallery 1996
KEYWORDS: Europe European art architecture history politics dictators Paris Berlin Rome Moscow
The Historiography of the British Empire-Commonwealth: Trends, Interpretations, and Resources with 21 essays
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w - insect damage (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: Duke University Press 1966
KEYWORDS: historiographical essays British Empire Commonwealth politics history
Worksop, The Dukery and Sherwood Forest
Octavo, dark green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, black decorative rule & gilt floral motif to front board, blind decorative rule to rear board, frontispiece, illus half-title page, vii + large folding map + 338pp, illus plus folding charts, VG- (heavy browning to page edges, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, some scuffing to boards, inscription in ink & owner's name & address in ink to front pastedown, some creasing browning & foxing to folding map, some foxing throughout, newspaper articles glued to fep & to rear ep)
PUBLISHER: Simpkin Marshall & Co 1875
KEYWORDS: Nottingham Workshop Sherwood Forest history priory zoology geology flora
The Dalton Journal: Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1929
Quarto hardcover (VG+), signed by editor; 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: National Library of Australia 1990
KEYWORDS: australian seafaring history memoir journal william dalton diary maritime
Much Sounding of Bugles: The Seige of Chitral, 1985
First edition, imperial 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: Hutchinson & Co Ltd 1975
KEYWORDS: imperialism british empire india colonialism history seige of chitral
A Tale of Tahiti
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: Angus & Robertson 1958
KEYWORDS: tahiti tahitian history culture
The American Record: Images of the Nation's Past: Volume I: To 1877
Square imperial octavo softcover (VG+), THIS VOLUME ONLY, fifth edition; 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: McGraw Hill 2006
KEYWORDS: american history before 1877 1800s 1700s 1600s
Deception: Pakistan, the United Sates and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy
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: Atlantic Books 2007
KEYWORDS: nuclear weapons conspiracy global military history
The Wolverine Way
Imperial octavo softcover (VG+), Seagull fourth edition; 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: Patagonia Books 2010
KEYWORDS: science naturtal history zoology wolverine wolverines animal research
NAC: The Illustrated History of New Zealand National Airways Corporation 1947-1978
First edition, oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with white lettering to red spine, printed rear ep, 320pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Kynaston Charitable Trust / Craig Printing 2007
KEYWORDS: New Zealand NAC National Airways corporation aviation airline transport history
Ethiopia: A Cultural History
First edition, super octavo, burnt orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxviii + 747pp, illus, VG (lmoderate dampstaining to rear board with offset heavy staining to rear eps, moderate browning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Lalibela House 1955
KEYWORDS: Ethiopia history
Javanese Culture
Octavo, black illus light card covers with yellow & white lettering, xiv + 550pp, VG (moderately heavy tanning to page edges & prelims)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1989
KEYWORDS: Java Javanese history culture
Abri and the Security of Southeast Asia: The Role and Thinking of General L Benny Moerdani
Octavo, illus white light card covers with black lettering, 307pp, illus, VG- (moderate soiling to covers, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Singapore Institute of International Affairs 1994
KEYWORDS: Southeast Asia Singapore Suharto Sukarno Indonesia Malaysai General Benny Moerdani politics history ABRI
The New Zealand Official Year Book 1919 (Twenty-Eighth Year of Issue)
Tidy ex-library, usual markings; octavo, beige heavy card boards with black lettering to spine & front board, xiii + frontispiece folding map + 968pp, illus, VG (moderate fading & staining to board, heavy browning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional light foxing elsewhere)
PUBLISHER: Marcus F Marks Government Printer 1919
KEYWORDS: New Zealand statistics history Year Book
Brackles: Memoirs of a Pioneer of Civil Aviation
First edition, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt wings to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xv + 695pp, illus,VG (some fading to spine extrems & board upper edges, some foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name & date in ink to half-title page verso, sporadic light foing) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing to spine extrems & upper edges, sellotape repairs to rear upper edges & upper flap folds, some staining)
PUBLISHER: NSB Miller 1952
KEYWORDS: Air Commodore HG Brackley Brackles biography civil aviation history RNAS RAF
Ukraine Its History and Its Arts
Inscribed & signed, very large quarto 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Fortuna Company 1991
KEYWORDS: Ukraine history
Creative Meddler: The Life and Fantasies of Charles St Julian
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: Melbourne University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: Charles St Julian biography Australian Pacific history
Cunderdin-Meckering: A Wheatlands History
Imperial 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: Hyland House 1986
KEYWORDS: Australian history Cunderdin Meckering Balardong tribe agriculture farming