Books - "history"
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Wogfood: An Oral History with Recipes
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Random House 1996
KEYWORDS: culture cultural cuisine ethnic food cookbooks cookery cooking recipes Australian Australia history
Lives of Three English Saints
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: University of Exeter Press 1979
KEYWORDS: hagiography saints English religion religious history manuscripts medieval
Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: North Point Press 1996
KEYWORDS: food history olives olive trees heritage fruit industry trade
Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Virago Press 1999
KEYWORDS: military history domestic ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 women civil defence defense
Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present
Super octavo softcover (VG) 3cm closed tear to front hinge; 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: Penguin 2000
KEYWORDS: food culinary history cooking
Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History
Imp. 8vo, pp. 224; illus. heavy card bds; photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Voyageur Press 2010
KEYWORDS: Neil Young 20th century musician life lives biography illustrated history
Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of all Time
Imp. 8vo, pp. 287; black heavy card bds; illus. eps & prelims, photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping
PUBLISHER: Voyageur 2008
KEYWORDS: Led Zeppelin 20th century music musicians band life lives biography illustrated pictorial history
Two Inspiring Deans: TDJ Leech, GCJ Dalton: The Auckland University College School of Engineering at Auckland and Ardmore 1940-1954
SIGNED BY DES MATAGA, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, viii + 307pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing to cover edges, sl chafing to covers, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Opuzen Press 2019
KEYWORDS: New Zealand academia academic deans Auckland University College school of Engineering Ardmore TDJ Leech GCJ Dalton history
The Sitmar Liners & the V Ships 1928-1998
Quarto, blue cloth boards, blue lettering to spine, blue lettering & nautical illus to front board, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, 239pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems, sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning to spine & edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Carmania Press 1998
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history sitmar liners v ships boats vessels fleets
Crossed Flags: The Histories of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited and the Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited and Their Subsidiaries
FIRST EDITION, quarto, red faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt maritime flags to front board, printed/illus eps, frontispiece, 196pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl foxing/soiling to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: World Ship Society 1997
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand maritime nautical history shipping company steam navigation company
Joannis Buxtorfii P. Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum et Rabbinicum
TEXT IN LATIN, quarto, quarter leather bound brown buckram boards, marbled eps, contemporary prelim & terminal pages, xxviii + 1328pp, G+ (heavy chipping & rubbing to spine- partially detached with moderate surface loss, heavy scuffing & surface loss to board edges, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards, heavy bruising & cracking to bottom corner of rear board, moderate to heavy tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, lettering in ink to page fore-edges, heavy foxing to title page & other prelim pages, heavy foxing to some terminal pages, moderate foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Londini: Asher & Co., 13 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, Lipsiae: Impensis Mauritii Schaefer MDCCCLXXIV (1874)
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN antiquarian books theology religion history historical texts scriptures
Ile de France
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, frontispiece, map at prelims, unpaginated prelims + 187pp, map to rear, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & fading to extrems & board edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss, moderate chafing & light foxing, minor ink smudges to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Cassell 1960
KEYWORDS: first editions maritime nautical history passenger liners ships Ile de France French Line
The Sway of the Grand Saloon (Second Revised Edition)
SECOND REVISED EDITION, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xxii + 599pp, illus/photos, VG (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate staining/discolouration to front board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light wrinkling & foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light to moderate tanning, light fading to front, minro water staining to base of spine)
PUBLISHER: Arlington Books 1986
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history passenger liners ships
Reminiscences of a Long Life in Scotland, New Zealand &c &c (For Private Circulation)
SCARCE! INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE WIFE OF THE LATE AUTHOR TO GEORGE THOMSON- REMINISCENCES OF ONE OF DUNEDIN'S EARLIEST SETTLERS. Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering, rule & decoration to front board only, frontispiece, (10) + 75pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & board corners, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's sm ink stamp to title page)
PUBLISHER: Jolly & Braik, Moray Place 1904
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Dunedin local history early settlers pioneers Robert Campbell signed Scottish heritage
The Anchor Foundry: A History, and the Maritime Structures of Colonial Nelson, the Early Steamers, Ships of the Anchor Line, the Thomson Brothers, Marine Engineers
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, SINGLE PAGE HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to front cover only, x+ 177pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, minor creasing to rear cover, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Pat W Win 2010
KEYWORDS: signed Pat W Win New Zealand maritime nautical history Nelson engineers
PartnerShips to the World: Canada Steamship Lines: One Hundred and Fifty Years On
Oblong quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 96pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The CSL Group 1995
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history CSL Canada Steamship Lines Canadian business economics
The Sitmar Liners: Past and Present
Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 287pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning & fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Rosenberg Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical passenger liners cruiseships history Sitmar companies
Passenger Liners from Germnay 1816-1990
Quarto, blue buckram boards, grey lettering to spine & front board, marbled eps, frontispiece, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Schiffer Publishing 1991
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history historical vessels passenger liners German Germany
Fremantle Port: A Pictorial History
Oblong quarto, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, 198pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Chart and Map Shop 2011
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history Fremantle Australia Australian ports port
The Earth Brought Forth: The Milsons of Milsons Point 1806-1973
Quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, (8) + 564pp + xlix, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: 4SQ Books 2006
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history Milsons Point Milson family nsw New South Wales