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$15.00
xxqei211019

Treason at 10: Fiji at the Cross Roads


BAIN, KENNETH

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

$16.50
xxqfc211036

Where Did They Come From? The Polynesians


MITCALFE, BARRY & HOWIE, ALAN (Illus)

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

$35.00
xxfmf211478

From Sextants to Satellites: A Cartographic Time Line for New Zealand


MARSHALL, BRIAN

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

$245.00
ak5/1/21

Fordkloden efter Syndfloden (The Earth After the Flood)


FIGUIER, LOUIS

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

$100.00
ak5/3/5

Sir Joseph Banks and the Transfer of Plants To and From the South Pacific 1786-1798


FROST, ALAN

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

$60.00
ak5/3/22

Land Environments of New Zealand / Nga Taiao o Aotearoa


LEATHWICK, JOHN et al

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

$50.00
2f51f/50

The Ecology and Biogeography of Nothofagus Forests


VEBLEN, THOMAS T & HILL, ROBERT S & READ, JENNIFER (eds)

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

$16.50
xx185pol212527

On Human Geography


JOHNSTON, R J

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

$50.00
ak5/6/38

Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations


ELLEN, ROY

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

$32.50
xx91pol212711

Essai sur la Geographie des Plantes (1807) Facsimile


VON HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER

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

$40.00
2s9c/13

Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent


MCGONIGAL, DAVID

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

$45.00
1y22c/23

Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era


SCHWARTZ, STUART B (Ed)

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

$25.00
xxsek214999

The Transformation of the Chinese Earth


BUCHANAN, KEITH

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

$35.00
xxske215425

Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities


BELL, DAVID (Ed) & VALENTINE, GILL (Ed)

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

$55.00
ak5/9/39

Notes sur la Distribution Geographique et la Morphologie de Diverses Stations Prehistoriques


REYGASSE, MAURICE

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

$40.00
ak5/10/22

The Discovery of the Pacific Islands


SHARP, ANDREW

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

$100.00
ak5/12/46

The Modern Judea, Compared With Ancient Prophecy


WYLIE, Rev JAMES AITKEN

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

$245.00
ak5/12/50

The Home Teacher (5 Vol Set)


NEIL, SAMUEL (Ed)

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

$30.00
xxsqh215651

The Offshore Islands of Northern New Zealand: Proceedings of a Symposium Convened by the Offshore Islands Research Group in Auckland, 10-13 May 1983


WRIGHT, A E & BEEVER, R E (Eds)

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

$45.00
ak5/17/21

Pure Geography


GRANO, JOHANNES GABRIEL & GRANO, OLAVI (Ed) & PAASI, ANSSI (Ed) & HICKS, MALCOLM (Trans)

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

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