Books - "history"
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The New Naturalist: Moths
Octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to blue spine, 310pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to spine & rear cover, light soiling to page edges, slight rubbing to covers)
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2002
KEYWORDS: Michael Majerus natural history moths entomology biology ecology evolution conservation behaviour
Hawke's Bay Before and After the Great Earthquake of 1931: A Historical Record
Original first edition, oblong folio, brown boards with green cloth spine & board corners, darker brown lettering to front board, 182pp + 18pp news bulletins to rear, illus, VG (some staining to front board, several small gouges to front board, browning to eps, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown, vertical crease to prelims, creasing to page 15, some foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Daily Telegraph 1931
KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand Hawke's Bay earthquake history pictorial photographic record
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45: Supply Company
Ex library, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 372pp, illus, folding maps, VG (usual library markings with damage to eps, slight tanning to eps, slight bruising to spine extrems & board corners, slightsoiling to page edges, surface loss and staining to pastedowns) in d/w, VG- (light tanning, tape residue staining to edges, light creasing, chipping and small tears)
PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington New Zealand 1955
KEYWORDS: PW Bates Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force 2NZEF second world war two ww2 wwII official military history
Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913
Uncommon in hardcover, octavo, grey cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, viii + 265pp, nr fine in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2005
KEYWORDS: Sean Brady Britain British masculinity male sexuality gender studies sociology social history
Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans
Super octavo, black cloth boards with orange lettering to spine, xv + 310pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to boards, sight bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Louisiana State University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: Emily Epstein Mandau America American Storyville New Orleans sexuality gender prostitution sociology social history
Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600 to 1750
(Part of The Pelican History of Art Series)
Imperial 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1958
KEYWORDS: specials Italy Italian architecture art history
The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya, and Andean Peoples
(Part of The Pelican History of Art Series)
Imperial 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1962
KEYWORDS: specials George Kubler Ancient America American Mexican Maya Mayan Andean architecture art history archaeology
Sculpture in Britain, 1530 to 1830
(Part of The Pelican History of Art Series)
Imperial 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1964
KEYWORDS: specials Margaret Whinney archaeology art history sculpture
The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain
(Part of The Pelican History of Art Series)
Imperial 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1953
KEYWORDS: specials Benjamin Rowland Indian Hindu Jain Buddhist archaeology art history sculpture
Merchantmen-at-Arms: The British Merchants' Service in the War
Ex library, large quarto 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: CHatto & Windus 1919
KEYWORDS: specials David W Bone Muirhead Bone British Merchant Service FIrst World War One WWI maritime history shipping boats
The Art and Architecture of Russia
Part of the Pelican History of Art Series
Quarto 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Book 1954
KEYWORDS: specials George Heard Hamilton Russian art history architecture
Architecture Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Part of the Pelican History of Art Series
Quarto 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Book 1958
KEYWORDS: specials Henry Russell Hitchcock art history architecture
The Buidings of Christ's College, 1850-1990
Oblong quarto, back cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, 107pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to lower spine extrem, slight browning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Rodney Wells Don Hamilton New Zealand Christ's College school buildings architecture history
Upper Hutt - The History
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with green lettering to white spine, 350pp, illus, VG+ (slight foxing to eps, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight soiling, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Upper Hutt City Council 1991
KEYWORDS: JA Kelleher New Zealand Upper Hutt local history
The Tetley Affair, or Colonial Dreams & Nightmares
Signed by author, octavo, illus light card covers, 143pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to sine & front cover)
PUBLISHER: The Heritage Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Helen J Loftus New Zealand Joseph Dresser Tetley William Webster Hawkins William Maxwell Hammick Chaytor brothers family biography history memoirs
The Indian History of British Columbia: The Impact of the White Man
Octavo softcover (nr 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Royal British Columbia Museum 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Wilson Duff British Columbia anthropology history
A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands
With Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Languages, Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants
FACSIMILIE REPRINT LIMITED TO 500 COPIES 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: John Snow / Cook Islands Library & Museum Society 1998
KEYWORDS: specials John Williams Pacific Islands travel explration missionary missionaries memoirs culture traditions anthropology history
The Lantern was Lighted: An Historical Record of the First One Hundred Years of the Dunedin Photographic Society Ltd
Octavo, stapled light card covers (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: (not stated) 1990
KEYWORDS: specials T Maguire New Zealand Dunedin Photographic Society photography history
Five Moral Pieces
First edition, octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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: Harcourt, Inc 2001
KEYWORDS: specials Umberto Eco Italian literature essays politics sociology history first edition
Origins of the Sacred: The Ecstasies of Love and War
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Abacus 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Dudley Young anthropology history