Books - "history"
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Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766; His Diary, Manuscripts and Collections
with a foreword by the Hon. Joseph Smallwood
small quarto, rust cloth boards with brown label with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 512pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear, ink inscription to fep, v light foxing to page edges) in VG+ d/w (light wear to extremities, v light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1971
KEYWORDS: history biography joseph banks a.m. lysaght labrador newfoundland travel natural history botany zoology
GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain Most Secret Intelligence Agency
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: Harper Press 2010
KEYWORDS: specials history GCHQ history secret intelligence Bletchley Park espionage Cold War British Intelligence state security
Throw Out the Lifeline
signed by author, octavo, illus light card covers with red & black lettering to spine and front, 93pp + 1pp other titles, illus, VG (inscription to ep, slight foxing to front and rear eps, slight browning to cards, v slight foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: John McIndoe 1979
KEYWORDS: Joan Macintosh New Zealand history Southland autobiography history sociology Invercargill Tokonui
The Beginnings of English Society
Volume II of the Pelican History of England
ex library, paperback (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: Pelican 1952
KEYWORDS: specials Dorothy Whitelock history England English history Anglo-Saxon Romans Battle of Hastings
An Introduction to Design & Culture in the Twentieth Century
Paperback (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: Routledge 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Penny Sparke design mass-production industry aesthetics technology economics history of modern design manufacturing art social history
A History of the United States
Hardcover, red boards 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: JM Dent & Sons 1943
KEYWORDS: specials Cecil Chesterton DW Brogan history politics USA America United States military history
Tudor England
ex-library, paperback (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: Penguin 1972
KEYWORDS: specials S T Bindoff history England Tudor English history
Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan
Super octavo, illustrated light card covers with white lettering to spine and front, xviii + 266pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to covers, tiny abrasion spot to front cover)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2007
KEYWORDS: Christopher P Hood Shinkansen Japan history trains transport bullet train history politics economics high speed railways
Pure Gold and Rough Diamonds: Gems from the Scrapbook of a travelling Watchmaker & Jeweller in Otago & Southland
Signed by author, octavo, light card covers in attached yellow illustrated d/w with brown lettering to spine & front, 143pp, illus VG (heavy wear & bruising to front flap fold-in edge, 1cm chip to top front fold-in edge, some soiling spots to front & rear)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1943 (?)
KEYWORDS: signed by author JB Hislop New Zealand history Otago Southland travel history motorbike car travelling rep
A Short History of Educational Ideas
exlibris, hardback octavo, lacks 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: university tutorial press
KEYWORDS: specials education history curtis boultwood history politics
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The D-Day Story
hardcover octavo (VG) in d/w (VG-, torn); 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: Victor Gollancz 1960
KEYWORDS: ex library Cornelius Ryan D-Day 2nd world war WWII war history Germany Operation Overlord military history Allies
Policing Two Peoples: A History of Police In the Bay of Plenty 1867-1992
Quarto hardback, 450pp, illus (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: Bookprint Consultants Ltd 1993 (?)
KEYWORDS: specials Jinty Rorke New Zealand Police history Bay of Plenty crime law criminal history murder
Old Wellington in Colour from hundred-year-old picture postcards
Hardover oblong imperial octavo (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: Steele Roberts Publishers 2008
KEYWORDS: specials Hugh Price Susan Price New Zealand Wellington history photographs pictorial history postcards colour illustrations
The Cyclopedia of New Zealand: Volume 6 - Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington Provincial Districts
Industrial, Descriptive, Historical, Biographical, Facts, Figures, Illustrations
Very tidy copy in original binding, quarto, dark blue cloth boards with gilt embossed stamp to front board and leather corners and leather spine with gilt lettering, patterned eps, xxvi + 767pp, illustrated, VG (moderate scuffing and soiling to boards and spine, fading & foxing to prelims, gutter cracked at front & rear but not broken, fading & foxing to rear few eps, browning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cycopedia Company Ltd 1908
KEYWORDS: encyclopedia cyclopedia Taranaki Hawke's Bay Wellington province history geography biographies politics government education military social history business industry
Melville in the South Seas
Ex library, super octavo (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: Dover Publications 1966
KEYWORDS: specials Charles Roberts Anderson Herman Melville biography whaling South Seas US Navy history literature history lit crit
The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg
Super octavo paperback (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: Duke University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Richard Handler Eric Gable Williamsburg American history consumerism culture education museums entertainment patriotism revisionism social history
The Anglo-Saxon Age c400-1042
Ex library, 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: Longman Group 1983
KEYWORDS: specials DJV Fisher history England Anglo-Saxons conquest Normans Christianity religion church ecclesiastical history
Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies: A Survey of the Literature Complete with Original Patterns 1747-Present
First edition, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xi + 173pp, illus in full colour, fine, in fine d/w
PUBLISHER: Stackpole Books 2004
KEYWORDS: Sylvester Nemes sport fishing outdoors history angling anglers wet fly dry fly soft hackle trout 220 years' fly fishing history
Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail
Super octavo hardcover 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: Cambridge University Press 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Stephen Fender America USA literature California Gold rush history 19th century american literary cultural history
Cochrane
Paperback (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: Star Books 1978
KEYWORDS: specials Donald Thomas maritime adventure Admiral Lord Cochrane Sea-Wolf Napoleon biography history maritime history