Books - "history"
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William Colenso: Printer, Missionary, Botanist, Explorer, Politician: His Life and Journeys
Octavo, green buckram boards, lettering to spine- faded, frontispiece, 494pp, illus, VG (minor rubbing & bruising spine & board extrems/edges, lettering on spine faded, moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims, minor discolouration sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1948
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history exploration explorers biography biographies memoir William Colenso
Sea Edge: Where the Waitemata Meets Auckland
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, square quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, 258pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Oratia 2019
KEYWORDS: signed Bob Harvey New Zealand history Waitemata Auckland photography maritime
A French Kiss With Death: Steve McQueen and the Making of Le Mans
Quarto, illus heavy boards, red & black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 462pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Bentley Publishers 1999
KEYWORDS: movies film history cinema Steve McQueen Le Mans automotive racing behind the scenes
Motorcycle GP Racing in the 1960s
Imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 176pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine & front cover, sl creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Veloce Publishing 2014
KEYWORDS: motorsport motorcycle racing GP races history sixties 60s 1960s
Letters to Mac-Talla from John Munro A Cape Breton Gael in New Zealand 1894-1902 (Revised Edition)
Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to covers, xix + 147pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing to cover edges, light soiling to page edges, sl warping to whole item, prev. owner's details in ink to title page)
PUBLISHER: Bev Brett 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history letters correspondence Mac-Talla John Munro
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1956 (93rd Year)
Sm octavo, yellow cloth light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & covers, printed inside covers, xxxii + 1043pp, VG (light fading/soiling & moderate creasing/fraying to spine, moderate soiling to covers, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, occasional minor foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1956
KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden cricket almanacks 1956 past years
Rottenomics: The Story of New Zealand's Leaky Buildings Disaster
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, red & black lettering to spine, 186pp, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2019
KEYWORDS: New Zealand home ownership buildings water damage leaking leaky homes building standards history construction
Icelandic Art
Quarto hardcover (VG) in clear plastic sleeve/jacket (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: Thames and Hudson 1961
KEYWORDS: Iceland Icelandic art appreciation history
The Earth Spirit: Its Ways, Shrines and Mysteries
Quarto softcover (VG) cracking to gutters: 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: Thames and Hudson 1975
KEYWORDS: nature earth history mysteries
Consolidated B-24 Liberator (Early Models): Aerodata International No 11
Quarto softcover, stapled (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: Visual Art Press (Printer) 1979
KEYWORDS: military aviation history b-24 liberator fighter planes aircraft design engineering
The Hendrix Experience
Quarto 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: Pyramid Books 1990
KEYWORDS: Jimi Hendrix music history rock musicians guitarists biography
High Water: Floods in New Zealand
Ex-library, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Grantham House 2006
KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural disasters floods flooding history
The Life and Times of Alfred the Great
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1993
KEYWORDS: history Alfred the Great biography rulers
The Case of the Midwife Toad
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Picador / Pan Books 1975
KEYWORDS: science biology Arthur Koestler Paul Kammerer Darwin history
On History, and Other Essays
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1983
KEYWORDS: history literature essays Michael Oakeshott historiography tower babel religion
Pre-Fascist Italy: The Rise and Fall of the Parliamentary Regime
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1939
KEYWORDS: Italy Italian history fascism fascist regimes politics government
Select Documents on British Colonial Policy 1830-1860
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1928
KEYWORDS: British colonial policy documents documentation history historical 19th nineteenth century
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph: A Biography
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 2014
KEYWORDS: Beethoven classical music composers history biography memoir
The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Palgrave 2001
KEYWORDS: history British kings rulers monarchy King Edward 6th sixth vi protestant reformation religion
Memory and the Mediterranean
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 2001
KEYWORDS: ancient history civilisations civilizations Mediterranean