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$19.50
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Polynesian Voyagers: The Maori as a Deep Sea Navigator, Explorer and Colonizer


BEST, ELSDON

Octavo softcover, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: A. R. Shearer 1975

KEYWORDS: exploration travel Polynesia Maori history New Zealand settlement

$18.50
xxrmj126449

The Railways of New Zealand: A Journey Through History


CHURCHMAN, GEOFFREY & HURST, TONY

Quarto 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

PUBLISHER: William Collins 1990

KEYWORDS: travel trains rail engineering transport New Zealand history steam engines

$22.50
xxrmk126450

Great Houses


NICOLSON, NIGEL & GRAHAM, IAN (Photo)

Ex-library, large quarto 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

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1968

KEYWORDS: architecture pictorial anthology collection England Europe America history stately houses homes

$16.50
xxrmk126454

London Overlooked


FLETCHER, GEOFFREY S.

Quarto 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

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1964

KEYWORDS: travel exploration England London history art sketches Geoffrey Fletcher artist

$9.00
xxrmk126486

1918: The Unexpected Victory


JOHNSON, J. H.

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: Cassell 1999

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first world war politics psychology

$24.50
xxrml126502

Chateaux of the Loire Valley


DE MONTCLOS, JEAN-MARIE PEROUSE & POLIDORI, ROBERT (Photo)

Large imperial 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

PUBLISHER: Konemann 1997

KEYWORDS: France Loire Valley castle chateaux architecture history pictorial photography photos

$17.50
xxrml126508

The Unofficial Formula One Encyclopedia


HUGHES, MARK & BUTTON, JENSON (Fore)

Large 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Hermes House 2005

KEYWORDS: cars formula one 1 encyclopedia engines engineering history biographies teams tracks

$15.00
xxrml126514

The Medals Year Book 1993 Edition


GOODING, NORMAN (Ed)

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: Token Publishing 1993

KEYWORDS: medals military history antiques antiquities

$22.50
xxrml126537

Roskill: An Illustrated History of New Zealand's Largest Borough


FICKLING, R. N. (Pref)

Large quarto 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

PUBLISHER: Mount Roskill Borough Council 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Mount Roskill pictorial

$35.00
xxrml126544

Armstrong and Coehorn Affair


OSBORNE, JOHN & BELCHER, TREVOR

Oblong quarto softcover, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: South Pacific Armoury 1990 approx.

KEYWORDS: weaponry guns armoury police history crime law legal New Zealand

$20.00
xxrml126556

The Shape of the Aeroplane


STEVENS, JAMES HAY

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1953

KEYWORDS: military aviation ww1 ww2 first second world war aeroplanes engineering history raf

$35.00
xxrml126562

Is It Peace?


GEORGE, DAVID LLOYD

Super 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1923 approx.

KEYWORDS: British politics liberal party history ww1 first world war treaty of versailles peace autobiography memoir David Lloyd George

$375.00
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Ten Thousand Miles of Travel, Sport and Adventure


TOWNSHEND, F. TRENCH

First edition, original binding, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blue eps, frontispiece, illus title page, xiv + 275pp + 16pp adverts, VG (light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, bookseller's label to fep)

PUBLISHER: Hurst & Blackett 1869

KEYWORDS: travel West America history

$245.00
2i30/2

A Gentler Structure for Life


AALTO, ALVAR

Small folio, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, illus title page, 176pp, illus, VG+ (owner's inscription to f.e.p., light rubbing to boards)

PUBLISHER: Rakennustieto 2008

KEYWORDS: Alvar Aalto Architecture Finland History

$80.00
2i30/15

Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachin Wtewael


CLIFTON, JAMES & HELMUS, LIESBETH M. & WHEELOCK, ARTHUR K.

Quarto, orange cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, prelims, xxv + 210pp, illus, Nr fine in d/w Nr fine

PUBLISHER: National Galler of Art 2015

KEYWORDS: arts painting history Joachin Wtewael

$50.00
2i30/20

De Ontdekking Van Het Dagelijks Leven Van Bosch Tot Bruegel


VAN DER COELEN, PETER & LAMMERTSE, FRISO

Text in Dutch, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, purple eps, 287pp, illus, Nr Fine

PUBLISHER: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2015

KEYWORDS: text in dutch arts painting history

$40.00
2i30/23

Typhoon Pilot


SCOTT, DESMOND

First edition, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xvi + 168pp, illus, VG (sl bruising to spine extrems, prev owners name and small inscription in ink to fep) in d/w VG (with wrap-around ribbon "New Zealand's most decorated air ace" in clear protective wrap with blue tape edges)

PUBLISHER: Leo Cooper 1982

KEYWORDS: biography history aviation typhoon planes RAF royal air force World War Two WW2 New Zealand

$20.00
2i30/24

Veteran Cars: Amazing New Zealand Collections


REID, STEVE

Oblong, imperial octavo, illus boards, illus eps, 192pp, illus, Nr Fine

PUBLISHER: Harper Collins 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand cars history

$45.00
2i30/25

The First Northerns: Northern Pacific A Class 4-8-4


DRESSLER, THOMAS

oblong, Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 100pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to cover)

PUBLISHER: N.J. Internation (n/d)

KEYWORDS: trains transport locomotives history

$100.00
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The Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental


GENTILE, RAYMOND

Highlighting and annotation by automotive author Maurice Hendry with several loose enclosures, small quarto, black faux leather boards wtih gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 272pp, illus, VG- (several nicks to spine extrems, some browning to page edges, some annotation in pencil & ink, binding loosening a bit), in d/w, tatty (archival tape repairs to edges, corners & spine extrems, moderately heavy creasing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Dalton Watson 1980

KEYWORDS: Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental cars automotive engineering history

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