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The First Frontier
by Scott Weidensaul
Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground—when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while...
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History Of the Labor Movement In the United States From Colonial Times To the Founding Of the American Federation Of Labor
by Philip S Foner
Sir Francis Drake As Seen By His Contemporaries With a Bibliographical Supplement By Burton Van Name Edwards
by David Beers Quinn
S M Otieno, Kenya's Unique Burial Saga
by Catherine and Paul Muhoho, Reporters; Sean Egan, Editor Gicheru
Meadows Museum Of Art For the Indochina Collection Of Jean Despujols Centenary College Of Louisiana
by Jean, Artist Willard Cooper, Algur Hurtle Meadows, David Jerome Field, Designers Despujols
Ships, Sailors and Spices East India Companies and Their Shipping In the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries
by Jaap R and Gaastra, Femme S Bruijn
Colonialism Books & Ephemera
Come and see the Empire by the All Red Route
London: Workers' Empire Exhibition Committee; Independent Labour Party, 1938. Pamphlet. 15p., staplebound pamphlet, old price penciled on cover over the original price. Mild wear with some toning. Tongue-in-cheek travel brochure highlighting the imperialist exploitation of British colonies. Advocates independence for India and other colonial possessions. Issued as part of the Independent Labour Party's "counter-exhibition" at the 1938 Glasgow Empire Exhibition.
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NZ$198.14
The achievements of the regime in the election campaign; speech delivered by the Prime Minister Prof. Oliveira Salazar in reply to the message sent by the chairmen of the Portuguese town councils, in the Sao Bento Palace, on May 31st 1958 and words spoken at the election meeting in favor of Rear-Admiral Américo Thomaz, in the Sports Palace, in Lisbon, on June 4th 1958
by Salazar, Prof. Oliveira
Lisbon: Secretariado Nacional da Informação, 1958. 20p., 6.25x8.5 inches, text in English, very good ex-library with label and stamp in original stapled wraps. Salazar Says.
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NZ$33.02
A private Marine of Col. Fourgeoud's Corps
by BLAKE, William
London: Joseph Johnson, 1793. unbound. very good(+). William Blake. Etching and engraving. 10.25" x 7.75". Minor toning and light foxing at edges, otherwise in very good condition. A plate from John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Slaves of Surinam" (London: Joseph Johnson, 1796). This book, with its graphic depiction of slavery and colonization in the New World, became an important reference for early...
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NZ$990.72
Leopold Sedar Senghor and the Politics of Negritude
by Markovitz, Irving Leonard
New York: Atheneum, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No marks. Fine complete dust jacket. Bibliography. Index.
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NZ$33.02
Journal of Homosexuality: vol. 1, #3, Spring 1976
by Silverstein, Charles, editor, Brenda D. Townes, Louis Crompton, Edmund White, Michael Goodrich et al
New York: Haworth Press, 1976. Paperback. pp261-348, articles, reviews, reports, services and resources, ads, very good trade paperback journal in tan wraps. Journal of Homosexuality. Age-Status Labeling in Homosexual Men. Homosexuals and the Death Penalty in Colonial America. "The Journal of Homosexuality will be a quarterly journal devoted to research in the social and biological sciences. It is meant for the psychotherapeutic practitioner and other professionals who deal with the problems of people...
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![Breve Relation de la fondation de la mission des freres mineurs Capucins du seraphique pere saint Francois au royaume de Congo. et des particularities, coutumes et facons de vivre des habitants de ce royaume. Ecrite et dediee aux eminentissimes [&c &c] Rome, 1648. Traduite de l'Italien et annotee par Francois Bontinck](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/433/881/1459881433.0.b.jpg)
Breve Relation de la fondation de la mission des freres mineurs Capucins du seraphique pere saint Francois au royaume de Congo. et des particularities, coutumes et facons de vivre des habitants de ce royaume. Ecrite et dediee aux eminentissimes [&c &c] Rome, 1648. Traduite de l'Italien et annotee par Francois Bontinck
by De Rome, Jean-Francois, author; aka Francesco Romano. Bontinck, Francois, translation
Louvain / Paris: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1964. Paperback. xxviii, 149p., period illustrations on inserted coated stock, a softbound enclosed in a utilitarian library casing of black buckram boards, gilt titled. Ex library with a prim bookplate to pastedown and, below it, the library's withdrawal (item "removed") notice. Signatures opened neatly by hand throughout. Insertion into a casebinding has caused slight damage to titlepage of the original paperback, the binder's glue picked up first three letters...
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O Zea Mays e a expansão Portuguesa
by Lino da Silva, Joaquim
Lisboa: Ministerio da Ciencia e da Tecnologia, 1998. Paperback. 212p., text in Portuguese, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. On the effect of maize or corn on the expansion of Portuguese colonies in Africa.
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![Immigrants in Britain: This statement by the Standing Committee on Migration was presented to the British Council of Churches on April 27th, 1965. The Council resolved in the following terms: [&c &c]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/254/569/1371569254.0.b.jpg)
Immigrants in Britain: This statement by the Standing Committee on Migration was presented to the British Council of Churches on April 27th, 1965. The Council resolved in the following terms: [&c &c]
by British Council of Churches
London: the council publications department, 1965. Pamphlet. [4]p., printed in red on a single leaf and folded vertically to make a four-page brochure, about 450 words, urges legal and social extirpation of "involuntary racial segregation". A fair-only exemplar, being edgeworn and dust-soiled.
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NZ$19.81
Goa, as I saw it
by Marini, Emile
Fribourg, Switzerland: Les Cahiers de Voyage, 1957. Paperback. 221p., french-fold wraps, 4.75x7.25 inches, illus., wraps worn with impression from a pen doodle on front wrap, pages lightly toned else good condition. Published simultaneously with the French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions. Collectio-Aurea.
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O Transmontano, Folha Democratica. 8.o anno, n.o 366, quinta 10 de Junho de 1880
by Cesar, Augusto, redator responsavel
Villa Real: editor, 1880. Pamphlet. Single folio leaf printed and folded to make 4p., each page 18x12.5 inches, folded again transversely. The curiously generous margins are not much worn, but all leaves are, or are nearly, detached along the transverse fold. Looks to be complete; texts address local matters with some correspondence from Lisbon. As is.
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NZ$33.02
New South Wales, New Zealand New Hebrides and the Islands adjacent
by WILKINSON, Robert
London: Robert Wilkinson, 1806. unbound. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 12" x 9 1/2"<br/> <br/> This lovely map depicts the eastern coast of Australia, the southern tip of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and New Zealand. Insets show Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, and Port Jackson with its Environs. Robert Wilkinson (d. 1825), was a London based map and printseller who collaborated with John Bowles and others to produce high...
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NZ$660.48
General Wayne's Assault on Stony Point
by Leslie's Weekly
New York: Frank Leslie's Weekly, 1857. unbound. Joseph H. Brightly. View. Uncolored wood cut. Sheet measures 23 x 32", image measures 20 1/2 x 30 1/2".<br/> <br/> Bird's eye view of the heroic Stony Point battle, published in Leslie's Weekly as a supplement in 1857. The Battle of Stony Point took place on July 16, 1779, during the American Revolutionary War. In a well-planned and nighttime attack, George Washington's Army under the command of Brigadier General...
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Japan's Economic Expansion
by Allen, George Cyril
London: Oxford University Press, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine in very good plus & complete dust jacket. No marks to text. Data covers early 1930s to early 1960s. Bibliography & Index.
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NZ$24.77
Puerto Rico: analisis de un plebiscito
by d'Estefano, Miguel A
Havana: Tricontinental, 1967. Trade Paperback. 126p., text in Spanish, wraps lightly worn, pen checkmark on front wrap, rubberstamp of the Mision Movimiento Pro Independencia de Puerto Rico on half-title, else very good in original wraps.
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NZ$33.02
![[extra-illustrated.] The Narrative of General Venables, with an Appendix of Papers Relating to the Expedition to the West Indies and the Conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by C.H. Firth](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/936/891/1452891936.0.b.jpg)
[extra-illustrated.] The Narrative of General Venables, with an Appendix of Papers Relating to the Expedition to the West Indies and the Conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by C.H. Firth
by Venables, General Robert, et alia; C.H. Firth, editor
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900. Hardcover. [Copperplate map fixed to pastedown]; xli, 180p., two maps described below, hardbound first edition in cinnamon-brown cloth boards, 8.5x6.5 inches, eccentric and rather beautiful book design: smartly framed in blind and gilt, with an onlaid spine decoration (armorial). Signatures opened neatly throughout, fine coated yellow endsheets, slight edgewear to casing, hinges excellent, textblock mildly crimped (probably in bindery), one endsheet removed (neatly...
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NZ$148.61
The History of the Australasian Colonies (From their foundation to the year 1893)
by Jenks, Edward
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895. Hardcover. xvi, 352p., the two line maps in colors as called for, plus a terminal 4p., the series menu. Hardbound first edition in 7.5x5 inch green cloth boards gilt and black, gilt a bit dim while remaining quite legible, slight edgewear to casing with a touch of color-loss to rims and corner-tips, a very good copy indeed: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Cambridge Historical series; Prothero, editor.
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NZ$57.79
Snares without end
by Bhêly-Quénum, Olympe
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1988. Hardcover. xxvi, 204p., illustrated boards; bookstore rubberstamp on top-edge of text block, else in very good condition. Caraf Books Series.
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NZ$123.84
Rhodesia: Why Minority Rule Survives
London: Christian Action Publications Ltd. on behlaf of the International Defence and Aid Fund, 1969. pamphlet. 40p., stapled wraps, 5.75 x 8.25 inches, small stains and light soiling on rear wrap else very good condition.
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NZ$19.81
They shall be free... The program and purpose of the American Committee on Africa
New York: American Committee on Africa, 1955. Six-panel brochure, very good, with a printed cover letter laid in. Introduction to the anti-colonial organization. The executive board, headed by Donald Harrington, included Bayard Rustin and AJ Muste.
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NZ$66.05
British India
by THOMSON, John
Edinburgh: John Thomson, 1816. unbound. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 20" x 23 3/4", sheet measures 20 7/8" x 27 3/4"<br/> <br/> This beautiful map of southern India, covering the region from Bombay to Chilika Lake, and southward to Cape Comorin and the Gulf of Manara, including part of Ceylon. The hand coloring indicates regions designated as 'British India' and Indian Rajah territories. Includes place names, rivers, and topograpical...
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NZ$388.03
Dearest Priscilla
by Emily Bradley
London: Max Parrish, 1950. First Edition. Very Good/Good+. First edition. In original jacket with a clip from the lower inner flap. Generally light wear with some weakening around the head/tail of the spine and along folds supported by paper tape. Rust red cloth over boards with gilded designs of huts and trees on the front and gilded lettering on the spine. Gentle rubbing to edges and at corners, otherwise near fine. Pencil marks to ffep. Interior is clean and clear. Pages: 239 ...
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NZ$86.69
Vietnamese studies: no. 29: Chemical warfare
Hanoi, 1971. Paperback. 189 p. paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 inches, very good.
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NZ$28.07
Israel and South Africa: The Progression of a Relationship. Revised edition
by Stevens, Richard P. and Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri; foreword by John Henrik Clarke
New Brunswick, NJ: North American, 1977. Paperback. 228p., wraps, 6x9 inches, foxing on edges, pages evenly toned, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. On the continuities and collaboration between the settler states.
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NZ$36.33
A Yankee on the Yangtze
by William Edgar Geil
1904 UK edition hardcover as pictured. Not a reprint. A classic journal and travelogue documenting a missionary's trip through China complete with the jingoism and racism typical of westerners with dreams of empire. Includes 100 full page illustrations/photographs and a fold out map. Binding is intact. Blue cloth boards with white and deep blue stamping are faded, soiled and worn with some fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners. Both hinges partially cracked. Writing and Australian missionary...
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NZ$209.70
Screed of Safari Scribe
by Virginia Feild Walton Brooks
1947 softcover as pictured. This is an interesting collection of newspaper columns written by Virginia Brooks during a trip to Europe, Palestine and Africa in 1947. The primary purpose of the trip was big game hunting in Africa. Though quite readable the post WWII colonial attitude concerning the middle east and Africa is troubling as is the glorification of trophy hunting. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers are rubbed and lightly soiled. Front endpapers mottled. Text appears unmarked. Includes...
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NZ$206.40
