Books - "history"
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Uppity Women of Medieval Times
Square 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: Conari 1997
KEYWORDS: medieval history women
Threatened Plants of New Zealand
Super 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: DSIR 1989
KEYWORDS: botany new zealand natural history field guide conservation
Parnall Aircraft since 1914
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. Photos available on request
PUBLISHER: Putnam 1990
KEYWORDS: aviation aircraft history Parnall
Stewart Island's Kaipipi Shipyard and the Ross Sea Whalers
SIGNED First edition, small quarto, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 273pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems, light fading to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight fading and scuffing)
PUBLISHER: JPC Watt 1989
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Stewart Island maritime history shipyards boat building whaling Ross Sea Norway Norwegians signed
Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xx + 586pp, illus, VG (creasing to rear cover, v slight soiling to upper page edges)
PUBLISHER: Harrington Park Press 2007
KEYWORDS: homosexuality homosexuals gay gender history
The Politics of Focus: Women, Children and Nineteenth-century Photography
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with white lettering to blue spine, x + 136pp, illus, VG (owner's name in ink to fep & rear ep)
PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: photography photographic technology history
Images of War: New Zealand and the First World War in Photographs
Scarce in hardcover, very large square illus grey boards with white lettering to spine & front board and black lettering to rear board, window cut-out to front board allowing framed view of fep illus, illus eps, 399pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Harper Collins 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand First World War One WW1 photography photographic pictorial record military history
David Leslie: A Story of the Afghan Frontier Volumes 1 & 2
Uncommon, two-volume set, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black rule & gilt mountain landscape motif to front board, dark brown coated eps, vi + 293pp (vol.1), vi + 303pp (vol.2), some fraying to spine extrems, some staining to boards & spine, wear to vol 1 fep, owner's name & address in ink to vol.1 fep, some browning to page edges, prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1879 (2nd edition)
KEYWORDS: David Leslie biography Afghanistan history
Cavalry in Future Wars
First edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, upper page edges stained black, xxviii + 305pp + 2pp book ads, VG- (moderately heavy staining to boards, some fraying to spine extrems, ding to front board lower corner, some tanning to page edges, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown, owner's name & address stamp partially scored out to fep, 4cm stain to front hinge, some foxing)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1906
KEYWORDS: mililtary history cavalry warfare war combat
Cambodia: The Years of Turmoil
Very large quarto, light grey boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, 160pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine,
PUBLISHER: Asia Horizons 2000
KEYWORDS: Cambodia history photography pictorial record photographs
Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle: Quatrieme Serie, Tome Sixieme
TEXT IN FRENCH, re-bound, v large quarto, yelllow heavy card boards with black lettering to brown cloth spine, original title page mounted to new fep, pages 225 to 321, illus with aprox 18 full-page plates, VG+ (some light soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Masson Et Cie 1904
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH natural history zoology carcinology crabs crustacea science
A History of Goldmining in New Zealand
Imperial octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 309pp, illus, VG, in d/w G+ (heavy creasing & scuffing/tearing) photos available on request
PUBLISHER: RE Owen Government Printer 1963
KEYWORDS: New Zealand gold goldmining industry history
An Early Surveyor in Singapore
First edition, square quarto, blue boards with white lettering to spine & front board, 135pp, illus, VG+, in d/w, VG+ (slight fading)
PUBLISHER: National Museum Singapore 1979
KEYWORDS: John Turnbull Thomson Singapore Government surveyor biography history
The Renault File: All Models since 1898
Oblong super octavo, black boards with silver lettering to spine, black eps, frontispiece, 416pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG (moderately heavy foxing inside, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Dove Publishing / Haynes 1998
KEYWORDS: cars Renault motoring motorcar transport automotive history
Captain Charles: Engineer of charity
Super 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: Allen & Unwin 2008
KEYWORDS: biography Charles Gordon O'Neill Australian history
The Way We Were: Pictorial Memories of Early New Zealand: Auckland - South & East
Landscape 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: Moa Beckett 1994
KEYWORDS: New Zealand South East Auckland photography colonial history
The Way We Were: Pictorial Memories of Early New Zealand: Auckland - North Shore / Waitakere
Oblong 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: Moa Beckett 1994
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland North Shore Waitakere photography colonial history
A Book of New Zealand
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: Collins 1964
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history geography culture
The Story of St. Thomas's: 1106-1947
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1947
KEYWORDS: English medical history St. Thomas's hospital London
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
Super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 2012
KEYWORDS: American history biography Joseph P. Kennedy politics