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The English Pilgrimage To Rome: A Dwelling For The Soul


CHAMP, JUDITH

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: Gracewing 2000

KEYWORDS: history Rome english religious

$15.00
xxrfi121261

The German Nation And Martin Luther


DICKENS, A. G.

Ex library, 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: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd 1974

KEYWORDS: history Germany reformation Martin Luther biography

$18.50
xxrfi121267

Our Woodlands, Heaths and Hedges: A Popular Description Of Trees, Shrubs, Wild Fruit With Notice Of Their Insect Inhabitants


COLEMAN, W.S.

All pages present but several sections completely loose, some damp staining, small octavo with maroon leather covers (tatty); 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: Routledge, Warne and Routledge 1860

KEYWORDS: natural history botany plants trees shrubs

$27.50
xxrfi121279

New Zealand in the 20th Century: The Nation, The People


MOON, PAUL

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: Harper Collins Publishers 2011

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history culture

$24.50
xxrfi121281

The First Salute


TUCHMAN, BARBARA W.

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf 1988

KEYWORDS: history American revolution geography politics

$75.00
xxrfi121283

The Maryland Air National Guard: A Commemorative History 1921-2000


KEMP, MARGARET F. (Design)

Large quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, embossed gilt soldier motif to front board, illus eps, illus title page, 336pp, lavishly illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Fine Books Publishing Company 2000

KEYWORDS: America military history transport Maryland aviation

$12.50
xxrfk121288

New Zealand in the Mid-Victorian Era: An ALbum of Contemporary Engravings


HARGREAVES, R. P. & HEARN, T. J.

Quarto softcover (VG-, worn wrappers); 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: John McIndoe Ltd 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history victorian engravings art

$58.00
2i6/35

The Suter: One Hundred Years in Nelson


BUTTERWORTH, SUSAN

Signed & dated by author, large quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 200pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Nikau Press 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson Bishop Suter art gallery history

$125.00
2i6/38

An Old-Time Fishing Town: Eyemouth, Its History, Romance & Tragedy with an Account of The East Coast Disaster October 1881


MCIVER, DANIEL

Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 356pp, illus, VG- (some fraying to spine extrems & board corners, light scuffing to boards, some browning to page edges, front hinge cracking, moderate foxing to eps)

PUBLISHER: James McKelvie & Sons 1906

KEYWORDS: Eyemouth history East Coast shipping disaster

$90.00
2i6/40

The Jew as Ally of the Muslim: Medieval Roots of Anti-Semitism


CUTLER, ALLAN HARRIS & CUTLER, HELEN ELMQUIST

Super octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, x + 577pp, VG (small ding to front board lower edge, 1cm front board upper corner missing, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing and some nicks to edges, orange label to lower spine)

PUBLISHER: University of Notre Dame Press 1986

KEYWORDS: Jews Judaism antisemitism Muslim Christianity Islam history

$100.00
2i6/45

Picturesque Palestine Sinai and Egypt Volume III


WILSON, SIR CHARLES

This volume only, small folio, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering outlined in black to front board, gilt & black decorative rule front board, blindd-stamped decorative rule to rear board, aeg, frontispiece with tissueguard, illus title page, vi + double-page map + 240pp, illus with engravings on steel & wood, VG (some light scratching to boards, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems, lighter to board edges & corners, 4cm closed tear to cloth of spine head, 2cm split to cloth of spine side, YMCA stamps to many pages, moderately heavy browning to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: JS Virtue & Co (n/d)

KEYWORDS: Palestine Sinai Egypt history scenery

$165.00
2i6/46

An Artist in Egypt


TYNDALE, WALTER

Quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, elaborate gilt & black decorative rule to front board, illus eps, tipped-in frontispiece with tissueguard, vi + 286pp, illus with tipped-in plates each with tissueguard, VG (moderately heavy fading to spine and less so to boards, ding to board upper corners, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, light browning to page edges & eps, bookseller's label to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: HOdder & Stoughton1912

KEYWORDS: Egyptian history Egypt travel art paintings Walter Tyndale biography memoir travel

$165.00
2i7/2

Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: A Systematic Description of the Native Plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadecs, Lord Auckland, Campbell & Macquarrie Islands


HOOKER, J. D.

Super octavo, dark grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt publisher's motif to front board, 15pp + lxviii + 798pp + 24pp Reeve & Co's publications in botany, conchology & entomology, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light fraying to board corners, some tanning & foxing to page edges& eps, owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Reeve & Co 1867

KEYWORDS: New Zealand flora reference native plants natural history

$85.00
2i7/4

Egypt Old & New: A Popular Account of the Land of the Pharaohs from the Traveller's and Economist's Point of View with many engravings, nearly 50 coloured plates & a map


MARTIN, PERCY F.

SMall quarto, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt building motif to front board, frontispiece, 224pp, illus, VG (some staining to boards, some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, small nick to cloth of spine side, moderate browning to page edges, occasional foxing, light creasing to occasional page fore-edge, some wear to rear eps - possibly where a label was removed)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1923

KEYWORDS: Egypt Egyptian history culture

$150.00
2i7/6

Romania at the Moment of Truth


ILIESCU, ION

ASSOCIATION COPY - inscribed by the author, former Presidentn of Romania, to a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with white lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 271pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (small soiling spot to rear)

PUBLISHER: Henri Berger Editions 1994

KEYWORDS: Romania Romanian politics history revolution

$14.00
xxrfk121293

Army Manual of Hygiene and Sanitation 1934


N/A

Paperback (tatty); 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: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1942

KEYWORDS: military history manual handbook British army

$17.50
xxrfk121295

The Tartan Pimpernel


CASKIE, DONALD C.

First edition 3rd impression, 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: Oldbourne Book Co Ltd 1958

KEYWORDS: biography Dr Donald Caskie history world war two WW2

$25.00
xxrfk121296

Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George His Life and Times


OWEN, FRANK

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd 1954

KEYWORDS: biography Lloyd George politics history

$15.00
xxrfk121332

George Washington Wilson and the Scottish Railways


DURIE, ALASTAIR J. & MELLOR, ROY

Oblong quarto, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Kennedy Brothers Publishing Ltd 1983

KEYWORDS: british scottish railway transport history

$16.50
xxrfk121333

The Cambridge History of Islam Volume 2a: The Indian Sub-Continent, South-East Asia, Africa and the Muslim West


HOLT, P. M. ET AL (Ed)

This volume only, 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: Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1978(?)

KEYWORDS: islam religion history muslim India Asia Africa

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