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$40.00
2i15/22

Our War Nurses: The History of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps 1902-1988


GOODMAN, RUPERT

Quarto, illus heavy card boards, xv + 294pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to rear board, v slight bruising to board edges)

PUBLISHER: Boolarong Publications 1998

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian army nursing corps military history nuses medicine

$300.00
2i15/25

An Account of the Sarcophagus of Setu I. King of Egypt, B.C.1370


BUDGE, E.A. WALLIS

Scarce, first edition, octavo, red light card covers with lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 128pp, illus, VG- (paper surface mostly chipped off with significant loss to spine-binding fragile, light rubbing 7 moderate soiling to covers, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Harrison & Sons 1908

KEYWORDS: Egypt ancient history monarchy Sarcophagus Setu archaeology

$1000.00
2i15/26

The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs, and Manner. Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times. Four Volume Set


GROSE, FRANCIS (compiled) & ASTLE, THOMAS (compiled)

4-volume set, Includes double-page colour plate of Great Fire of London, quarto, halfbound, marbled boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule between five raised bands to brown leather spine, all page edges stained red, xxii + 391pp (vol 1), xii + 432pp (vol 2), viii + 446pp (vol 3), xvi + 744pp, illus, boards VG- (moderate rubbing, heavy bruising to spine extrems & board corners, spine head detached significantly to vol 4, front board of vol 4 & front board and rear board of vol 1 fully detached from spine, moderate browning to leather on boards, heavy creasing to spine extrems, some wear to vol 1 & 4 spines), text block VG (owner's book plate to all front pastedowns, some foxing and sporadiic tanning) VERY HEAVY SET

PUBLISHER: Edward Geoffrey 1807 (vol1),1808 (vol 2&3), 1809 (vol 4)

KEYWORDS: history Great Britain antiquities

$45.00
2i15/30

25 Centuries of Language Teaching


KELLY, L.G.

Super octavo, brown boards with black lettering to spine, illus eps, xi + 474pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) d/w VG- ( heavy rubbing with loss to fold repaired with archival tape, 1cm chipping to spine repaired with archival tape, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Newbury House 1969

KEYWORDS: languages Study teaching History Second language acquisition

$40.00
2i15/32

Travels in South Africa: Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society


(Africana Collectanea Volume XLVII

CAMPBELL, JOHN

Facsimile reprint, octavo, green boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration to front board, decorative rule to boards, frontispiece, xxiv + 400pp + 2pp, illus, folding map, VG+ ( light foxing to upper page edges, slight bruising to board corners, v. slight browning to eps)

PUBLISHER: C. Struik Ltd. 1974

KEYWORDS: south africa travels biography John Campbell missionary history

$55.00
2i15/36

Royal Flying Corps 1915-1916


COLE, CHRISTOPHER (Ed)

Super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, upper edges stained red, 352pp, illus plates, VG+ ( light foxing and sunning to Upper page edges) in d/w VG (sunning to spine, creasing and small closed tears to upper edge)

PUBLISHER: WIliiam Kimber & Co. Ltd. 1969

KEYWORDS: british military history royal flying corps aviation planes airforce

$15.00
xxrkj124823

Richard the Lionheart


GILLINGHAM, JOHN

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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1989

KEYWORDS: biography memoir history Richard the Lionheart British monarchy royal family

$12.00
xxrkj124830

Man and the Maritime Environment


FISHER, STEPHEN (Ed)

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: University of Exeter Press 1994

KEYWORDS: maritime history essays British European fishing climate conservation

$12.00
xxrkj124843

Down in the Drink: True Stories of the Goldfish Club


BARKER, RALPH

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) torn; 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: Chatto and Windus 1955

KEYWORDS: British military history aviation raf

$10.00
xxrkj124849

Rommel


YOUNG, DESMOND

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: Collins

KEYWORDS: biography memoir field-marshall Rommel aviation military history Germany

$10.00
xxrkj124855

Louis XIV


CRONIN, VINCENT

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: The Reprint Society 1965

KEYWORDS: history France Louis XIV royal family politics biography memoir

$15.00
xxrkj124860

The Golden Century of Spain 1501-1621


DAVIES, R. TREVOR

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: Macmillan and Co 1961

KEYWORDS: Spain history economics social science

$12.50
xxrkk124862

Louis XIV


CRONIN, VINCENT

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: Collins Harvill 1990

KEYWORDS: history France biography memoir Louis XIV

$15.00
xxrkk124865

Europe in the Seventeenth Century


OGG, DAVID

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1963

KEYWORDS: history Europe 17th seventeenth century politics religion

$15.00
xxrkk124872

Bulfinch's Complete Mythology


SPRING BOOKS (Pub)

Octavo hardcover (VG) no d/w; 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: Spring Books 1989

KEYWORDS: mythology legends myths history gods deities goddesses

$32.50
xxrkk124884

Vorster's Africa: Friendship and Frustration


VENTER, AL J.

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: Ernest Stanton Publishers 1977

KEYWORDS: South Africa politics war military current affairs history

$16.50
xxrkl124967

Gustave Courbet: His Life and Art


LINDSAY, JACK

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Jupiter 1977

KEYWORDS: art history biography memoir Gustave Courbet

$14.00
xxrkl124973

Victorian Outsider: A Biography of J. A. M. Whistler


MCMULLEN, ROY

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1974

KEYWORDS: art history biography memoir Whistler

$19.50
xxrkl124974

The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney


CUTRER, EMILY FOURMY

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press 1988

KEYWORDS: art history sculptor biography memoir Elisabet Ney

$95.00
2i15/38

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays


BUTLER, SAMUEL

Very Nice Copy, Octavo, black cloth boards with black lettering to spine, xi + 272pp, VG (ligth bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light browning to eps) in d/w VG- (moderate tanning to spine, light tanning to covers, moderate fading, moderate bruising to spine extrems, 1.5cm closed tear to upper spine)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1923

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature history Canterbury essays settlers

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