Books - "history"
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Sudies by Members of the French Department of Yale University
Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, VG (light soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, light soiling to pg edges & eps), in d/w VG- (moderate soiling & rubbing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1941
KEYWORDS: Yale University French literature history essays
Te Toi Whakairo: The Art of Maori Carving
Super octavo, illus light card covers, VG- (moderate scuffing to covers, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping, light to moderate soiling to page edges, soiling throughout). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Reed Books 2002
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori art carving craft tools history
Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents
Super octavo, illus light card covers, VG (light soiling to covers, sl bruising to edges & extrems, sl soiling throughout). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: The Museum of Modern Art 2010
KEYWORDS: MoMA China Chinese art history 20th 21st century artists
Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde
Super octavo, light card covers, VG (light soiling & scuffing to covers, light bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 1992
KEYWORDS: media art history artists 20th century avant garde avant-garde criticism sound technology
Pakeha Ta Moko: A History of the Europeans Traditionally Tattooed by Maori
Octavo, illus light card covers, VG+ (sl bruising to edges & extrems). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: White Cloud Books 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand European Maori tattoo 19th century social history
Matuso Basho
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red cl boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt, VG+ (light soiling & scuffing to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems, light soiling to pg edges, notes in pen to final pg), in d/w VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Twayne Publishers 1970
KEYWORDS: Ueda Makoto Matuso Basho 17th century Japan Japanese literary history biography life lives literature
2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, VG (light soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, some fading to spine, sl soiling to pg edges, prev ownership signature & presentation card pasted to fr pastedown some soiling throughout), lacking d/w. Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Department of Internal Affairs 1966
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history artillery gunners 20th century
Official History of the Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F. in the Great War, 1914-1918
Second edition. Octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, VG- (moderate soiling & scuffing to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems with light chipping, light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps, lg tear to p. 403). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: J. Wilke & Co.
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Otago 20th century First World War 1 I One great
An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales: Including a Visit to the Gold Regions, and a Description of the Mines; With an Estimate of the Probable Results of the Great Discovery
Third edition. 2 vols. Octavo, green cl boards, boards panelled & ornamented in blind, spine lettered in gilt, xvi + 494, xii + 591 pp., VG+ (moderate soiling to boards, moderate to heavy bruising to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping--heavy loss to vol 2 spine at head & cl torn to rear joint at head, cl torn to rear joint at foot to vol 1, light to moderate soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges, eps, & prelims/terminals, inscription in pencil to vol 2 fr pastedown, med tear to vol 2 ffep, light cracking to vol 2 front & rear hinges, prev ownership inscription in red ink to vol 2 tp, some underlining & annotation throughout, foxing). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1852
KEYWORDS: early Australian history Australia New South Wales local social
The Fortunate Soldier: With the New Zealand Army on Tongatabu, 1943
Octavo, illus light card covers, spiralbound, illus, photos, VG+ (sl soiling to covers, light bruising to edges & extrems, some tanning). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Malcolm Foord 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 20th century Pacific theatre life lives biography memoir
Torana Tough: History Holden Torana, 1967-1980
Obl quarto, illus card boards, VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems, light foxing to pg edges, some tanning). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: H@nd Publishing 2012
KEYWORDS: cars vehicles Holden history Norm Darwin
Early History of New Zealand
Quarto, red card boards, half bd in brown leather & red cl boards, spine panelled & lettered in gilt, front board lettered & illus in gilt, frontis., illus., folding plate, marbled pg edges, [8] + 728 + xliii + [1 (advt)] pp., VG- (moderate soiling & scuffing to boards, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with light chipping, tear to spine extrem at head, moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, moderate cracking to front hinge, rear hinge detatched, moderate foxing to prelims/terminals, light to moderate foxing throughout, sl cracking to central gutters). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: H. Brett 1890
KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history Maori Cook church mission missions local social
The Defence of the United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION. Super octavo, green cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, VG (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps, prev owner's bookplate to ffep), in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy soiling, moderate tanning & foxing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1957
KEYWORDS: Second World War II 2 Two United Kingdom Britain England English British military history
The War Against Japan
FIRST EDITION. 5 vol set. Vols ii-v ex-library. Super octavo, green cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, plates, maps, folding maps, xxiv + 568, xviii + 541, xx + 559, xxvi + 568, xxvi + 599 pp., VG- (light soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, tape & adhesive residue from tape to boards of vols ii-v, light tanning to pg edges & eps, sl water damage to prelims/terminals of vols ii-v, library markings & paste-ins to ffep, tp verso & rfep of vols ii-v, d/w rear flap pasted to rfep of vol iii, light to moderate cracking to front & rear hinges, moderate cracking to vol ii front gutter--bdg sl sloppy, sl water damage & v sl foxing throughout to vols ii-v, archival repairs to map 1 of vol 2), in d/w, VG- (light to moderate soiling, tanning & foxing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping, sm tears to front cover extrem at head & spine extrem at foot of vol i, library markings to vols ii-v). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1957-69
KEYWORDS: Second World War II 2 Two Japan Pacific theatre military history first edition
History of United States Naval operations in World War II
15 vol set in mixed editions. Vols i-iii, ix, xi, xiii-xv ex-library. Vols ii, xiii-xiv lacking d/w. Octavo, blue buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt, frontis., maps, plates, lxiv + 432, xxii + 297, xxviii + 411, xxiv + 307, xxii + 389, xxx + 463, xl + 369, xxiv + 435, xxx + 413, xxxii + 399, xxviii + 360, xxvi + 445, xxviii + 338, xxvi + 407, xxii + 373 pp., VG- (moderate soiling to boards, tape & adhesive residue from tape to vols i, ii-xii & xv, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping, library markings & paste-ins to eps, tp verso & final pg, adhesive residue to ffeps, light cracking to front & rear hinges to vol i & iii--vol iii reinforced with tape, light soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps), in d/w, VG- (light to moderate soiling, moderate bruising with heavy chipping & some loss, moderate fading). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company 1951-62
KEYWORDS: Second World War II 2 Two United States of America American military naval history
The Richmond Vale Railway
Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, green and yellow lettering to front wrapper, white lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG (minor scuffing to front wrapper edges, hinges and head and base of spine, light fading and minor creasing to spine, minor fading to rear hinge) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Shepp Books 1990
KEYWORDS: trains railways history transport Richmond Vale
A Compendium of New South Wales Steam Locomotives
Quarto, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper and spine, illus/photos, VG+ (light discolouration/fading to front and rear wrapper edges, minor fading to spine, minor creasing to extrems, minor creasing to head of spine and front hinge, minor soiling to rear wrapper, moderate tanning to page edges) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Australian Railway Historical Society 1989
KEYWORDS: trains railways history Australia
The Overland Railway
Sm folio, dark blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, illus prelims, vi + 314pp, VG+ (light fading & bruising/scuffing to board & spine edges/extrems, sl chafing to front board, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (minor creasing/rolling to upper edges of wrappers, moderate fading to wrapper edges and spine, minor creasing to head of spine, minor 0.4cm open tear to upper edge of front wrapper, minor creasing to heads and bases of folds, minor creasing to flaps, minor tanning to edges of flaps, moderate horizontal scuff to front - photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Australian Railway Historical Society 1992
KEYWORDS: railways trains history transport Australia
Tender into Tank
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, dark beige heavy boards, black lettering to front board and spine, illus/photos, VG+ (minor bruising to extrems, minor creasing and bruising to head and base of spine, minor soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to head and base of spine, minor creasing/rolling to extrems, light soiling to wrappers, minor foxing to spine, minor creasing to rear hinge, minor soiling to hinges, minor creasing to upper edges of flaps) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Australian Railway Historical Society 1970
KEYWORDS: First Edition railways trains history Australia
Brisbane Blacks
Folio, illus heavy boards, yellow and red lettering to front board, yellow, pink and white lettering to spine, CD loosely enclosed, illus/photos, VG+ (minor scuffing to extrems, minor scuffing to base of rear hinge, minor creasing to heads and bases of hinges, minor scuffing to front board) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Keeaira Press 2001
KEYWORDS: Australia aborigines history