Books - "geography"
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Treason at 10: Fiji at the Cross Roads
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1989
KEYWORDS: first editions commonwealth Fiji politics pacific islands history geography
Where Did They Come From? The Polynesians
Oblong 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Price Milburn N/D
KEYWORDS: history culture Polynesians travel exploration geography New Zealand
From Sextants to Satellites: A Cartographic Time Line for New Zealand
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Brian Marshall 2005
KEYWORDS: New Zealand maps cartography history journals geography surveys
Fordkloden efter Syndfloden (The Earth After the Flood)
TEXT IN DANISH, DANISH FIRST EDITION, octavo, half leather bound black heavy boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, patterned eps, frontispiece, 507pp, illus, VG+ (light scuffing to leatherwork on spine & board corners, light fading to spine, 1cm scuff to top edge of front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, occasional light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: P G Philipjens Forlag 1869
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN DANISH first Danish editions Louis Figuier geography geology history historical
Sir Joseph Banks and the Transfer of Plants To and From the South Pacific 1786-1798
Quarto, marbled light card covers with french flaps, black lettering to title plate to front cover, viii + 62pp, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light tanning/fading to spine, sl tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: The Colony Press 1993
KEYWORDS: expeditions Sir John Banks plants naturalists botany South Pacific 18th eighteenth century history geography breadfruit plant introduction Australia
Land Environments of New Zealand / Nga Taiao o Aotearoa
Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 2x folding maps to rear pocket, VG+ (light fading & bruising to board edges & corners, sl tanning to page edges, prev. owner's ink stamp (David Galloway) to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creaisng to edges, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear)
PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2003
KEYWORDS: New Zealand landscapes geology environment climate geography ecology
The Ecology and Biogeography of Nothofagus Forests
Super 8vo, pp. x + 403; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling to pg edges; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to ffep); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: nothofagus ecology forest forests southern hemisphere geography geographical
On Human Geography
Very tidy ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1986
KEYWORDS: human geography anthropology R J Johnston
Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations
Very tidy ex-library, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 324pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, light discolouration to spine & board edges, light tanning to eps) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, light creasing to edges, sl tanning to rear & flaps, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: human ecology environment theory social science sociology anthropology anthropo-geography
Essai sur la Geographie des Plantes (1807) Facsimile
TEXT IN FRENCH, FACSIMILE REPRINT, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1959
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH essays geography plants Alexander von Humboldt natural history
Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent
Fol., 400; illus. heavy card boards; illus. eps, tp & prelims. photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in slipcase, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping).
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2008
KEYWORDS: Antarctica South Pole physical geography geology biology history
Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white & orange lettering (faded) to spine, frontispiece, xv + 637pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, light chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: Europe European foreign relations history culture communication ethnicity ethnopsychology geography
The Transformation of the Chinese Earth
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: G Bell & Sons 1970
KEYWORDS: modern China Chinese geography
Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities
Square 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Routledge 1995
KEYWORDS: geography sex sexuality social theory
Notes sur la Distribution Geographique et la Morphologie de Diverses Stations Prehistoriques
TEXT IN FRENCH, octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 91pp, illus, VG- (moderate soiling & creasing/scuffing to spine & covers/edges, minor annotation in ink to front cover, light tanning & soiling/foxing to page edges, heavy crack to front gutter, light foxing to eps)
PUBLISHER: Acheuleen d'el-ma-el-abiod N/D
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH archeology archaeology prehistoric excavation sites geography distribution morphology
The Discovery of the Pacific Islands
Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + (3) + 259pp, illus, VG (moderate to heavy soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & ep edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate to heavy fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1969
KEYWORDS: pacific islands exploration history Polynesia Melanesia Micronesia ethnology anthropology geography
The Modern Judea, Compared With Ancient Prophecy
Sm octavo, half leatherbound marbled boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, frontis/folding map, 366pp, G+ (front board almost detached but tentatively hanging on, v heavy scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork on spine & board corners, light chafing to boards, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges- marbling still visible, minor foxing throughout, ffep potentially missing, folding map frontis has light to moderate foxing & minor creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: William Collins 1860
KEYWORDS: ancient biblical history Judea Judaea prophecy geography Palestine antiquity
The Home Teacher (5 Vol Set)
5 VOL SET, quarto, red buckram boards, black lettering & decoration to spines & boards, 1440 pp total, illus/maps, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate to heavy soiling & chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate soiling to pages sporadically throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown of vol 1)
PUBLISHER: William Mackenzie N/D (c.1886)
KEYWORDS: old teaching books home teacher series geography nature plants botany geopolitics history
The Offshore Islands of Northern New Zealand: Proceedings of a Symposium Convened by the Offshore Islands Research Group in Auckland, 10-13 May 1983
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Department of Lands and Survey 1986
KEYWORDS: New Zealand north offshore islands geography geology research groups marine
Pure Geography
Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxvii + 191pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to spine)
PUBLISHER: Johgn Hopkins University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: physical geography teaching study Estonia Finland landscape geology