Books - "history"
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
Super octavo, mauve & blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 177pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading to spine & board edges/extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (minor tanning to spine, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges & flaps/folds)
PUBLISHER: The John Hopkins University Press N/D (c.1980?)
KEYWORDS: history Italy Italian heresy heretics peasants Friuli
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xiv + 208pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 1999
KEYWORDS: history illegal drug trade drugs opium narcotics Asia trafficking
Catching Nature in the Act: Reaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Super octavo, grey buckram boards, green gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 275pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2014
KEYWORDS: natural history 18th eighteenth century Reaumur naturalists
White Wings: Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade, 1850 to 1900, Volume I
THIS VOL ONLY, sm quarto, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 365pp + index to rear, illus, VG+ (light bruising/scuffing to extrems, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ light fading to spine, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1976
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history maritime nautical sailing
The Decisive Battles of the Western World and Their Influence Upon History (3 Vol Set)
3 VOL SET, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges stained red, mixed pagination, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedowns of all vols, prev. owner's catalogue numbers to ffeps of all vols also) in d/w, VG (price clipped, minor creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling, minor foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1957
KEYWORDS: military history battles warfare western world west
Twenty Years After: The Battlefields of 1914-18: Then and Now (Supplementary Volume)
SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt & black lettering to spine, gilt lettering & black lettering & illus to front board, viii + 800pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional minor foxing/soiling throughout, moderate cracking to gutter at title page & sporadically throughout, binding a little sloppy)
PUBLISHER: George Newnes Limited N/D
KEYWORDS: post-war history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 battlefields military locations
German Industry on the Warpath
HOLOGRAPH LETTER FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, sm octavo, illus stapled light card wrappers, printed inside covers, 64pp, VG- (minor closed tearing to base of spine area, minor creasing & moderate soiling/foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, newspaper clipping tipped in to inside front cover, light to moderate foxing to inside covers, minor ink markings to margins throughout, v sm hole to pg9)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co N/D (c.1942)
KEYWORDS: anti-Nazi war pamphlets Germany nazi German politics political economy industry history
The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & covers, viii + 157pp, VG (sl creasing/curling to cover edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate underlining & annotation in pencil- otherwise still a very tidy copy)
PUBLISHER: University of Michigan Press 2015
KEYWORDS: English drama literature stage plays theatre theater history criticism
Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, red gilt lettering to spine, x + 331pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2005
KEYWORDS: history weather meteorology Victorian era science forecasting forecasts 19th nineteenth century
The Usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson and his Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780-1841
Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt initials to front board, printed eps, frontispiece, xiii + 718pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning & light wrinkling, light to moderate creasing to edges, minor chafing)
PUBLISHER: Blubber Head Press 2001
KEYWORDS: history Jorgen Jorgenson biography biographies memoir Iceland Van Diemen's Land Tasmania
The Last of the Windjammers (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, imperial octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, blind stamp lettering to front boards, maps/illus to eps, frontispieces, vol 1- xiv + 518pp, vol 2- xv + 448pp, illus, folding designs, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, minor scuff/chip to base of spine on vol 2, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd 1963-66
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history windjammers ships Basil Lubbock
The Photography of John Richard Morris: An Appreciation of his Contribution to New Zealand Portrait and View Photography in the Nineteenth Century
Oblong quarto, spiralbound illus light card wrappers with french flaps, xiv + 44pp, illus, VG (light creasing & moderate tanning to front cover, moderate vertical crease & moderate tanning to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art history photos photography Hardwicke Knight John Richard Morris
Jim Pike, the Master: His Life and Times 1892-1969
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, HOLOGRAPHY LETTER FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, unpaginated prelims + 158pp, illus/photos, VG- (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate teo heavy water staining & soiling to base of spine & boards, sl foxing to page edges, moderate water staining to front eps) in d/w, VG- (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & edges, moderate water satining to top edge of front cover)
PUBLISHER: Alan J Chittick 2001
KEYWORDS: signed Alan J Chittick horse racing sport equine history Jim Pike jockeys biography biographies memoir
Scarlet: Clarrie Grimmett, Test Cricketer
Super octavo, green heavy boards, xi + 271pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, 1.5cm closed tear to base of rear, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: The Cricket Publishing Company 2008
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket cricketers Clarrie Grimmett biography biographies memoir
Rakiura: A History of Stewart Island New Zealand
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xx + 415pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, moderate general soiling)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1940
KEYWORDS: signed first editions New Zealand Rakiura Stewart Island Basil Howard history
Standing Upright Here: New Zealand in the Nuclear Age 1945-1990
SIGNED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, green & white/black lettering to spine, 621pp, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges & spine, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: signed Malcolm Templeton New Zealand modern history nuclear oceania France foreign relations
The Story of Two Campaigns: Official War History of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment, 1914-1919
FACSIMILE REPRINT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 265pp, maps to rear, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: N & M Press (modern facsimile reprint)
KEYWORDS: FACSIMILE REPRINT military history New Zealand Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war campaigns
Air Whaler
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 243pp, illus, VG+ (light scuffing to extrems, sl chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor tanning & soiling to eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional sl foxing/soiling throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/loss to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Smapson Low, Marston & Co 1949
KEYWORDS: aviation history Antarctica south pole Antarctic
The Story of the Solomons
Octavo, green heavy boards, black lettering to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG- (light bruising to spine & board corners, light soiling to rear board, minor insect damage to front hinge, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to front gutter- ffep potentially removed, light tanning & creasing to prelims, occasional sl foxing throughout) in d/wm VG (moderate creasing & tanning to spine & cover edges/folds at flaps, other minor soiling, 2cm closed tear to top edge of front cover, other sl closed tearing/chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: D O M Publications 1967
KEYWORDS: pacific islands Solomon Islands history colonialism anthropology geopolitics
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd; Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History: Volume III
THIS VOL ONLY, sm octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering to spine (rubbed off) with raised bands also, frontispiece, 400pp, illus, G+ (heavy cracking to front & rear hinges/gutters- front board shaky, leather peeling from front board, other moderate rubbing & soiling/chafing to boards & spine, heavy tannin & soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, moderate foxing & soiling throughout, illus opp. pg61 has heavy creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Printed by A Reilly, for Edw. Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork Hill, M,DCC,XLII (1742)
KEYWORDS: antiquarian books leather bindings natural history Noel Antoine Pluche historical