Books - "history"
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Fourteen Years in the Sandwich Islands 1855 - 1868
Super octavo, light brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, light brown patterened eps, frontispiece, xxviii + 289pp, illus, VG (light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (fading to spine, light soiling to rear, 1cm closed tear to lower front, light foxing to inside)
PUBLISHER: University Press of Hawaii / Hawaiian Historical Society 1981
KEYWORDS: Charles de Varigny Alfons L Korn French autobiography memoir Hawaii Honolulu Pacific Islands Hawaiian history travel culture politics
Kamahi: A District History
Inscribed and signed by author, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 264pp, VG (light soiling to board extrems, prev owners sign to prelim) in d/w, VG (light fading and small tears to upper extrems)
PUBLISHER: Merv Halliday 1990
KEYWORDS: signed Merv Halliday New Zealand Kamahi district history
Equality
softcover 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Polity 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Alex Callinicos history politics economics capitalism
Towards The Light
Softcover 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2008
KEYWORDS: specials A C Grayling politics history women's rights equality
Kohimarama: A Collection of Fragments
Commemorating Kohimarama Yacht Club's Fift Years 1939 - 1989
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: Frank Davis 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Frank Davis New Zealand Kohimarama Yacht Club sailing boats history
His Majesty's Regiments of the British Army
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (good+); 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: Metro-Provincial Publications 1949
KEYWORDS: specials British Army regiments military history
Struan's War
Battlegrounds, Recreation and Sightseeing in North Africa, 1941 - 1944, in the Photographs and Diaries of New Zealand Division Gunner Struan MacGibbon
Oblong 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Ngaio Press 2001
KEYWORDS: specials John MacGibbon New Zealand Struan MacGibbon North Africa war photographs photography diary journal memoir pictorial history
Historic North Otago
Comprising a Selection from those Articles First Published on the Feature Page of the Oamaru Mail in the 1980's
Quarto softcover stapled wrappers (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: The Oamaru Mail 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Syd Muirfield New Zealand North Otago Oamaru history
The Journals of A. N. Brown: C. M. S. Missionary Tauranga Covering the Years 1840 to 1842
Commemoration Edition
Octavo softcover (VG+) owners name in ink to fep; 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: The Elms Trust 1990
KEYWORDS: specials A N Brown New Zealand Tauranga missionary journal diary memoir memoirs history
Wittgenstein
softcover 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Quarter 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophy history biography
The Christ Face in Art
Inscribed & signed by author, octavo, cream boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule to spine, gilt-stamped Christ motif to front board, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxii + 252pp, illus with aprox 60 full-page plates, VG- (heavy browning to spine & board edges, moderate staining to boards, 1cm closed tear to upper spine extrem, chaffing to spine sides & extrems, light tanning to eps, some light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Duckworth & Co 1907
KEYWORDS: James Burns art history religion religious art Christ sculpture painting iconography
The Barbarian West 400 - 1000
hardcover octavo (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1959
KEYWORDS: specials J M Wallace-Hadrill european history
The Renaissance
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: New American Library 1959
KEYWORDS: specials Walter Pater renaissance european history art culture
King of Counties
Inscribed, dated & signed by author, imperial 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: Southland County Council 1977
KEYWORDS: signed specials FWG Miller New Zealand Southland County Council local government history
The Twelve Caesars
Super octavo hardcover (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: not stated
KEYWORDS: specials Matthew Dennison Roman emperors history biography Julius Caesar Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero Galba Otho Vitellius Vespasian Titus
Tutankhamen: Life and Death of a Pharaoh
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: World Books 1969
KEYWORDS: specials Christiane Desroches Noblecourt Tutankhamen pharaoh biography history ancient Egypt
Medieval Village, Manor, and Monastery
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 Torchbooks 1960
KEYWORDS: specials GG Coulton mediaeval history
The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as well as a History of the Kingdom 55BC to
Illustrated with Many Hundred Woodcuts & 104 Illustrative Portraits engraved on steel
8-volume complete set PLUS rare index volume by HC Hamilton published in 1850 (9 volumes in total), imperial octavo, half-bound, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to blue leather spines, page edges stained speckled red, illus title pages, viii + 887pp (vol 1) ii + 688pp (vol.1a), ii + 907pp (vol 2), ii + 729pp (vol 2a), vi + 912pp (vol.3), iii + 774pp (vol.3a) ii + 856pp + 63pp index (vol.4), iii + 733pp (vol.4a), 280pp (index), all vols except index illus, VG (browning to spines, scuffing to boards, edges & corners, number in crayon to feps, foxing & tanning to eps, occasional light foxing throughout) HEAVY SET
PUBLISHER: Charles Knight 1849 & 1850
KEYWORDS: George L Craik HC Hamilton Charles MacFarlane British Isles Britain England pictorial history
The Origins of Western Art
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: Thames & Hudson 1973
KEYWORDS: specials Ann Powell art history ancient Near East Greece Bronze Ironages Celts Roman classical art
I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual
A Memoir of Nazi Terrorism
Hardcover super octavo (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 cost.
PUBLISHER: BasicBooks 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Pierre Seel autobiography memoir personal account homosexuality Nazi Germany prisoner history deportation