Books - "history"
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Rita Angus: An Artist's Life
Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xi + 420pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards) in d/w VG+ (light fading to spine & rear cover, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Te Papa Press 2008
KEYWORDS: Rita Angus Biography arts Women painters New Zealand Biography history Painting
Pohutukawa and Rata: New Zealand's Iron-Hearted Trees
Folio, green cloth boards with lettering to spine & front board, red eps, xii + 346pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Te Papa Press 2005
KEYWORDS: Pohutukawa myrtaceae Rata New Zealand trees botany natural history
Grune Holle Nurburgring: Faszination Nordschleife
Text in German, Quarto, black boards with green lettering to spine, illus eps, 174pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (covered in clear contact, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Delius Klasing Verlag 2011
KEYWORDS: racing cars history sports
Walter Rohrl Diary: Memories of a World Champion
Folio, illus card boards with lettering to spine & boards, 255pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, covered in clear contact)
PUBLISHER: Verlag Reinhard Klein 2003
KEYWORDS: rally driving sports history autobiography Walter Rohrl World Champion motorsport car racing
National Parks of Sarawak
Super octavo, illus boards with lettering to spine & fron board, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 502pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Natural History Publications (Borneo) 2001
KEYWORDS: National parks reserves Malaysia Sarawak Natural history environment forests
England's Fight with the Papacy; A Political History
First edition, Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g., frontispiece, xix + 493pp, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light rubbing to boards, light fading to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, small dent to rear board edge, light tanning to page edges, previous owner's name & date in ink to fep, owner's label to fep, light foxing to first few pages, moderate browning to eps)
PUBLISHER: James Nisbet 1912
KEYWORDS: politics history Great Britain England Catholic Church Foreign relations religion
Oil Burner Service Manual
ex-library, Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, ix + 365pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, slight foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1942
KEYWORDS: oil burners reference manual history
The Inventor of the Numeral-Type for China by the Use of Which Illiterate Chinese Both Blind and Insighted
Inscribed & signed by author with tipped in enclosures at rear annotated by author, octavo, yellow cloth boards with brown lettering to spine & front board, brown motif to rear board, black eps, frontispiecce, xii + 189pp, illus, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to title page)
PUBLISHER: Downey (n/d)
KEYWORDS: Blind Institutional Care China Printing writing systems history
The Friar's Map of Ancient America 1360 AD: The Story of Nicholas of Lynn and the Franciscan Map of America
Quarto, illus light card covers, viii + 304pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to covers & spine, light soiling to cover)
PUBLISHER: Laura Lee Productions 1996
KEYWORDS: Nicholas Lynn North America Maps ancient history Cartography
Mahomet and Islam: A Sketch of the Prophet's Life From Original Sources, and a Brief Outline of His History
Octavo, brown octavo boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, brown eps, frontispiece, 279pp, VG (light rubbing to boards, light soiling to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep, moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners)
PUBLISHER: Religious Tract Society 1887
KEYWORDS: Muḥammad Prophet Muslims religion Saudi Arabia Biography history
Adventures of an Officer in the Service of Runjeet Singh
Octavo, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxvii + 271pp, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light fading to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1975
KEYWORDS: Sikhs History Fiction Punjab India literature
Life and Letters of Mr. Endymion Porter: Sometime Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to King Charles the First
Book plate of NZ art historian John Stacpoole, Super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, t.e.g., frontispiece, xii + 260pp, illus VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, previous owner's label to fep, light browning to eps)
PUBLISHER: T. Fischer Unwin 1879
KEYWORDS: biography letters Endymion Porter history
House Industries
Quarto, illus boards, illus eps, unpagenated, illus VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in slipcase VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Die Gestalten Verlag 2004
KEYWORDS: House Industries Firm history type foundry cartography
The Penguin History of New Zealand
Super octavo, black heavy boards with white letterinng to spine, green eps, VG+ in d/w VG+ (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin Books 2004
KEYWORDS: history New Zealand culture sociology
American Indian Healing: Only the Strong Survive
Quarto, illus light card covers with black lettering to spine & boards, xii + 103pp, illus, VG (ligth foxing to page edges, light fading to spine, light soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: The Sacred Rainbow Circle Foundation 1990
KEYWORDS: history culture religion medicine American Indian
Passing It On: Short Talks in Tribal Fighting on the North-West Frontier of India
octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, 144pp, VG (previous owner's name in ink to fep, bookseller's label to fep, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light tanning & light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Gale & Polden Ltd 1943
KEYWORDS: India Army Military art science Officers handbook history
Our War Nurses: The History of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps 1902-1988
Quarto, illus heavy card boards, xv + 294pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to rear board, v slight bruising to board edges)
PUBLISHER: Boolarong Publications 1998
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian army nursing corps military history nuses medicine
An Account of the Sarcophagus of Setu I. King of Egypt, B.C.1370
Scarce, first edition, octavo, red light card covers with lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 128pp, illus, VG- (paper surface mostly chipped off with significant loss to spine-binding fragile, light rubbing 7 moderate soiling to covers, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Harrison & Sons 1908
KEYWORDS: Egypt ancient history monarchy Sarcophagus Setu archaeology
The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs, and Manner. Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times. Four Volume Set
4-volume set, Includes double-page colour plate of Great Fire of London, quarto, halfbound, marbled boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule between five raised bands to brown leather spine, all page edges stained red, xxii + 391pp (vol 1), xii + 432pp (vol 2), viii + 446pp (vol 3), xvi + 744pp, illus, boards VG- (moderate rubbing, heavy bruising to spine extrems & board corners, spine head detached significantly to vol 4, front board of vol 4 & front board and rear board of vol 1 fully detached from spine, moderate browning to leather on boards, heavy creasing to spine extrems, some wear to vol 1 & 4 spines), text block VG (owner's book plate to all front pastedowns, some foxing and sporadiic tanning) VERY HEAVY SET
PUBLISHER: Edward Geoffrey 1807 (vol1),1808 (vol 2&3), 1809 (vol 4)
KEYWORDS: history Great Britain antiquities
25 Centuries of Language Teaching
Super octavo, brown boards with black lettering to spine, illus eps, xi + 474pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) d/w VG- ( heavy rubbing with loss to fold repaired with archival tape, 1cm chipping to spine repaired with archival tape, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Newbury House 1969
KEYWORDS: languages Study teaching History Second language acquisition