Books - "history"
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Farewell Sidonia
Sm 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: Jonathan Cape 1992
KEYWORDS: fictional history historical fiction literature Erich Hackl
Nga Pou Arahi: A Tribal Inventory of Manscripts relating to Maori Treasures, Language, Genealogy, Songs, History, Customs and Proverbs
Super 8vo, pp. xii + 311; illus. light card covers; photos; VG (creasing to spine, light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Auckland Institute and Museum 1995
KEYWORDS: Jenifer Curnow New Zealand Maori manuscripts language genealogy literature history culture
Word Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft
4to, pp. 546; blue heavy card bds, spine & front board lettered in silver gilt, aircraft motif in silver gilt to front board; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with sl chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Jane's 1981
KEYWORDS: Enzo Angelucci encyclopedia military history aircraft airplanes planes
Chronicle of Cinema
4to, pp. 941; illus. heavy card bds; frontis., illus. tp, photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing, rubbing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with sl chipping; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Dorling Kindersley 1997
KEYWORDS: cinema history film movies motion picture arts art chronicle
Through the Lens: Three Decades of New Zealand News Photography
Signed & inscribed by John Selkirk. Obl imp. 8vo, pp. 148; illus. heavy card bds; illus. eps, photos; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Reed 2003
KEYWORDS: Ian Stuart John Selkirk New Zealand history photographs photography
Forgotten Anzacs: The Campaign in Greece, 1941
Revised edition. Super 8vo, pp. x + 432; maroon heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; plates; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light tanning).
PUBLISHER: Scribe 2016
KEYWORDS: Peter Ewer Second World War 2 WW2 WW WWII II ANZAC Australia New Zealand military history Greece
Agape and Eros: Part I - A Study of the Christian Idea of Love; Part II - The History of the Christian Idea of Love
Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, 764pp, VG- (light to moderate creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, moderate tanning/fading & foxing to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, top corners of first two pgs removed, light to moderate foxing throughout, occasional ink markings)
PUBLISHER: Harper Torchbooks / Harper & Row 1969
KEYWORDS: religion Christian faith Christianity theology history antiquity spirituality
A Measured Pace: Toward a Philosophical Understanding of the Arts of Dance
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & black lettering to spine, xviii + 580pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 1995
KEYWORDS: dance philosophy history performing arts
Jazz Giants: A Visual Retrospective
Quarto, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 280pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Columbus Books 1988
KEYWORDS: music musicians jazz history
Historical Essays
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 298pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate chafing & surface loss to board edges, sl tanning to spine, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name to ffep, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional markings)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1957
KEYWORDS: literature history historical H R Trevor-Roper essays collection anthologies first editions
Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro
FIRST EDITION, tidy ex-library, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 521pp, VG (usual library markings, light rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, minor tape staining to board edges, light tanning/soiling & moderate foxing to page edges, sm brown smudges to some prelim pages (chocolate?) - still a tidy copy) in d/w, VG (in plastic cover- easily removed if desired, some library lables, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling- possibly just to plastc cover)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: Montenegro history geopolitics Europe first editions
No Simple Passage: The Journey of the London to New Zealand, 1842 - A Ship of Hope (Large Print)
LARGE PRINT, imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, vi + 596pp, illus, VG (light creasing to spine & covers/edges, light chafing & wrinkling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Random House 2011
KEYWORDS: large print New Zealand history pioneers early settlers London
Universal Business Directory, for Otago - Southland 1957
Octavo, illus/printed light card covers, blue & red lettering to spine, single punched hole to top of page block, printed eps, x + 801pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing/bruising to spine & covers/edges, moderate tanning & soiling to spine & covers, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning/foxing/soiling throughout)
PUBLISHER: Arnold D Baldwin / Universal Business Directories Ltd 1957
KEYWORDS: New Zealand old business directories Otago Southland provincial businesses history historical
Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places: Vol VI The Southern Suburbs
THIS VOL ONLY, imperial octavo, half leather bound maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spine, gilt trim to leatherwork on boards, marbled page edges, vignettes to prelims, xii + 636pp, illus, VG- (heavy cracking to front hinge- front board sl shaky, moderate scuffing to leatherwork, moderate chafing & fading/soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, light tanning & foxing to eps with minor water staining also, binding still sound)
PUBLISHER: Cassell Petter & Galpin N/D
KEYWORDS: England English cities London City south southern suburbs history culture buildings heritage Edward Walford
Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum & Arabicum
Lg quarto, half leather bound beige buckram reasonably modern boards- contemporary eps also, gilt lettering to green leather title plate to spine, spine also has raised bands with gilt roman numerals, red speckling to page edges, string binding- somewhat exposed at front & rear gutters, (8) + 1992 individually numbered columns + unpaginated Rasche Theboth + unpaginated Index to rear, VG (light to moderate rubbing & scuffing/soiling to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to front pastedown, sm historic annotation in ink to full title page, minor water staining to base of page block & some fore-edges, heavy creasing & moderate foxing to title page, light chipping to page edges, varying degrees of foxing throughout- some quite heavy, string binding exposed at front & rear gutters- only minor cracking to gutters themselves)
PUBLISHER: Francofurti ad Moenum, Typis Joannis Jacobi Hennai. MDCXII (1612)
KEYWORDS: Valentin Schindler Valentino Schindlero Oederano theology theological commentaries lexicons lexicon pentaglotton religion religious history Hebrew semitic languages Latin texts antiquarian books
The Year of the Flying Machine: 1903
Super 8vo 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: Charles Scribner's Sons 1977
KEYWORDS: modern history 20th century juvenline children's literature flying airplane aircraft
An Empire of Plants: People and Plants that Changed the World
Super 8vo 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: Cassell Illustrated 2002
KEYWORDS: Toby Will Musgrave plants plantlife world history tea tobacco opium cotton
Windows on the Past
4to 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: South Street residents, Nelson 1995
KEYWORDS: 19th century New Zealand local history Nelson
Qui e Li: Here and There: A photo essay on the life and hometowns of Italian Australians
Obl super 8vo 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: Red Egg Publishing 2006
KEYWORDS: Jane Burton Taylor Italy Italian Australia Australian social history photography migration
No Surrender: Greymouth's battle to Beat the Floods
4to stapled light card covers (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: the Greymouth Evening Star 1990
KEYWORDS: Kit Carson New Zealand history natural disaster flood floods flooding Greymouth