Books - "history"
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100 Years of Posters
Folio, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, xvi + 96pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing & tape repairs to spine, moderate creasing & chafing to covers, moderate insect damage & light loss to bottom corner of front cover & page block, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: The Pall Mall Press 1972
KEYWORDS: art posters history centennial centenary design
The Maori as an Artist
Sm folio, cream heavy boards, brown lettering to white buckram spine, unpaginated, 45 plates- some missing, VG- (moderate scuffing & surface loss to board edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to boards & spine, minor staining to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor scuffing & surface loss to front eps, plates 19-30 detached, plates 19-22 & 26-30 missing, other sections of page block loosened but still attached) in d/w, G+ (v heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to spine & edges- minor archival tape repair to spine, moderate tanning & foxing, light staining)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1957
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art history culture Maori carvings Renzo Padovan
Later Japanese Prints: 65 Illustrations, with 33 in Colour
Folio, illus light card covers, red lettering to spine & covers, unpaginated prelims, 64 plates- not counted presumed all present, VG- (moderate creasing & scuffing/rubbing to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to covers & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's am ex-libria label to inside front cover, heavy cracking/separation to front & rear gutters/spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to eps)
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 1978
KEYWORDS: art history Japan Japanese oriental prints
The Australasian Sketcher, with Pen and Pencil 1874
FACSIMILE EDITION, folio, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, unpaginated prelims & index pgs, 208pp, illus, VG (sl bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, light tanning/discolouration to eps & prelims & terminals, moderate cracking to gutters, occsional light closed tearing to base of some pages) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/loss to edges- tidy tape repairs, 2cm loss to spine, light to moderate fading to spine & top edges, minor wrinkling & chafing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Heritage Publications N/D (facsimile edition)
KEYWORDS: facsimile reprints Australasian sketcher past issues years 1874 history historical
Tom Roberts: The Man and His Art
Folio 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Heidelberg Publishing N/D
KEYWORDS: art history appreciation Tom Roberts Australian Australia collections exhibitions
Frederick McCubbin: The Man and His Art
Folio softcover (VG) 6cm closed tear to top spine edge; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Heidelberg Publishing 1989
KEYWORDS: art history appreciation Frederick McCubbin Australian Australia collections exhibitions
Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa
FACSIMILE EDITION, folio, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt antelope illus to front board, frontispiece, illus title page, vi + 175pp, illus, VG- (light to moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, light to moderate chafing & glue/paper residue to rear board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, heavy crack to gutter towards rear) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate to heavy chafing/scuffing & soiling with minor foxing also,
PUBLISHER: Sable Publishers 1986 (Facsimile Reprint of 1840 edition)
KEYWORDS: facsimile editions Southern Africa game hunting art portraits history historical Captain Sir William Cornwallis Harris travel travellers
Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science
Octavo softcover (G+) scruffy copy; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press / Phoenix 1966
KEYWORDS: Louis Agassiz biography biographies memoir history
Roman Coins: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1960
KEYWORDS: antiquity ancient Rome roman artefacts coins currency money monetary coinage history historical archaeology archeology
The Jews in Business
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1970
KEYWORDS: Jews Jewish culture business finance history
The Naked Madonna
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Harvill Press 1996
KEYWORDS: religion religious literature English translations Jan Wiese art history
The Peninsula Veterans
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Macdonald and Jane's 1975
KEYWORDS: Iberian Peninsula military history British army soldiers
1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Macmillan / St Martin's Press 1966
KEYWORDS: military history Napoleon Bonaparte Russia war defeat
Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Times Books 1990
KEYWORDS: rock music industry record companies business history
Classics in Auckland
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Dept of Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland 1983
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland university centennial centenary history academic academia classics study
The Marquis of Pombal (Second Edition)
Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer 1871
KEYWORDS: Marquis of Pombal biography biographies memoir history historical
Queen Victoria: Her Life and Reign, a study of Monarchial Institutions in British Countries and Her Majesty's Imperial Influence
Imperial 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: The Linscott Publishing Company n/d (circa 1900)
KEYWORDS: queen victoria empire imperial biography colonialism history politics empress britain british
Wife to Mr Milton: The Story of Marie Powell
Octavo hard cover (G+) in d/w (scruffy); 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: Creative Age Press, Inc 1944
KEYWORDS: historical novel robert graves marie powell john milton poet britain england history literature fiction biography
The Human Comedy
Octavo hard cover (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: John Lane the Bodley Head 1937
KEYWORDS: humanity civilisation commentary history prehistory anthropology
A Short History of the Sudan
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 University Press 1965
KEYWORDS: sudan africa history sudanese