Books - "history"
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High Flies the Cross: The 75th Jubilee History of St Andrew's College Christchurch, New Zealand 1917-1992
Inscribed & signed by author, quarto, blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, dark blue eps, 267pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name & date in ink to fep & to half-title page, v slight foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Board of Governors St Andrew's College 1992
KEYWORDS: Gordon Ogilvie signed New Zealand St Andrew's College Christchurch school education history
An Excellent Recruit: Frederick Thatcher, Architect, Priest and Private Secretary in Early New Zealand
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 297pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Polygraphia Ltd 2007
KEYWORDS: Margaret Alington New Zealand biography Frederick Thatcher architect priest history
Studies in Oceanic Culture History Volumes 1, 2 and 3
Number 11 Pacific Anthropological Records
Three-volume set, quarto, beige light card covers with black lettering, printed eps, iii + 206pp, iii + 120pp, vii + 160pp (vols 1-3 respectively), illus, VG+ (v slight staining to covers, owner's name in ink to front cover or fep)
PUBLISHER: Dept of Anthropology Bernice Bishop Museum 1970
KEYWORDS: RC Green M Kelly archaeology anthropology essays Polynesian Oceanic pre-history research papers
Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis, 1677-1683
Super octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, xv + 388pp + 2pp book ads, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Jonathan Scott Algernon Sidney biography political history Charles II
England's Troubles: Seventeenth-century English Political Instability in European Context
First edition, super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xii + 546pp, fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: first edition Jonathan Scott English history 17th century politics
The Old Identities being Sketches and Reminiscences during the first decade of the Province of Otago
First edition, lacks title page but frontispiece present, original binding, octavo, purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt decorative rule to spine & front board, blind decorative rule to rear board, brown coated eps, frontispiece, iv + 395pp, illus, VG- (lacks title page, heavy browning to spine, fading & rubbing to boards, some bruising & fraying to top & base of spine & board corners, bookseller's label to front pastedown, heavy browning & foxing to page edges, some browning & soiling to prelims, 3cm tatty tear to page 1 upper edge, some sporadic foxing)
PUBLISHER: Mills Dick & Co 1879
KEYWORDS: first edition James Barr New Zealand Otago history
Unto the Hills: The Story of a Parish in the Mountains
First edition, illus light card covers with plain white spine & black lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 78pp, illus, VG+ (v slight tanning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times 1967
KEYWORDS: first edition JD Salmond New Zealand Queenstown Frankton Glenorchy Skippers Arrowtown church history
Journeys in the South Island, New Zealand, Autumn 1950
octavo, illus black & brown light card stapled wrappers, illus eps, 65pp, illus, VG (some light tanning to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: The South Island Publicity Assoc of New Zealand 1950
KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel Waipori Waitaki Port Underwood Te Anau natural history essays WJ Elvy LE Richdale WA Speight D Martin Douglas Cresswell VC Browne H Walders Matt Grant
Growth & Development of the English Parish
Octavo hardcover, ex library (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: George G Harrap & Co 1932
KEYWORDS: specials Wray Hunt English history parishes churches chapels refectories abbeys
Rome of the Pilgrims and Martyrs: A Study in the Martyrologies, Itineraries Syllogae & Other Contemporary Documents
Ex library (Catholic Brothers), first edition, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1913
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Ethel Ross Barker religion theology Rome martyrs religious history
The Canal Age
First edition, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1968
KEYWORDS: first edition Charles Hadfield specials transport canals waterways history
Zulu Dawn
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: Arrow 1979
KEYWORDS: specials cy endfield south africa african history adventure fiction literature
The Archaeology of Palestine
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 1951
KEYWORDS: specials William Foxwell Albright Palestine archaeology ancient history Holy Land
The Birth of Communist China
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 / Penguin 1967
KEYWORDS: specials C P Fitzgerald communist China Chinese politics communism history
Annie's Box
softcover octavo (fine); 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: Fourth Estate 2001
KEYWORDS: specials Randal Keynes Charles Darwin Annie Darwin science biography history
Beyond Japan
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: Jonathan Cape 1991
KEYWORDS: specials Mark Holborn post-war Japan Japanese culture history art photography
New Zealand Photography from the 1840s to the Present
Quarto 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: PhotoForum Inc 1993
KEYWORDS: specials William Main John B Turner New Zealand art photography history
Bunty Preece: Soldier of the 28 (Maori) Battalion / Hoia Toa Bunty Preece: Tetahi o Nga Morehu o te Hoko Whitu a Tumatauenga
Super octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 128pp + 100pp (dual-language text with one half in English and other half starting at other end of book in Maori), illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: John Douglas Publishing 2012
KEYWORDS: Bunty Preece biography military history Maori Battalion Chatham Islander
Discharged in New Zealand: Soldiers of the Imperial Foot Regiments who took their Discharge in New Zealand 1840-1870
Imperial octavo, illus red stapled card wrappers with black writing to front cover, 128pp, VG+ (slight fading to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Society of Genealogists 1988
KEYWORDS: Lyn Hughes Hugh Hughes New Zealand military history foot soldiers regiments reference genealogy
The Mount Cook Way: The First Fifty Years of the Mount Cook Company
First edition, 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: Collins 1979
KEYWORDS: specials Harry Wigley New Zealand Mount Cook Company transport business history first edition