ROYAL FLYING CORPS (Photog)

Nice tidy copy, quarto, beige light card covers with red lettering to front cover, frontispiece with tissueguard, 62pp of b&w photographs, VG (light tanning to covers, some staining to rear cover, 1cm square cut off fep upper corner, moderate browning to tissueguard)

PUBLISHER: Tillotson & SOn 1916

KEYWORDS: German POWs prisoners of war Britain British military history Donnington Hall ALexandra Palace DOrchester Handforth Lofthouse Park Eastcote

PANOFSKY-SOERGEL, GERDA & PANOFSKY, ERWIN (Ed)

Super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xix + 285pp + plates at rear, VG (light rubbing to boards, light foxing to page edges & eps, small owner's ex libris label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (slight fading to spine, moderate creasing to edges, moderate foxing inside)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1979 (second edition)

KEYWORDS: Abbey church St Denis art history stained glass windows architecture sculpture paintings

PHILLIPPS, W. J.

Super octavo, blue/grey cloth boards with white lettering to spine, 159pp, illus, VG+ (light supping to upper spine extrem, prev owners name in ink to pastedown) in d/w, VG- (moderate chipping and small closed tears to edges, moderate rubbing and soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited 1963

KEYWORDS: NEw Zealand huia ornithology birds natural history

BRERETON, C. B.

First edition, octavo, red cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 111pp, illus plates, VG+ ( light foxing to page edges, v.light tanning to pages,) in d/w VG ( light fading to outer, light soiling , light brusing to edges)

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1948

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Nelson Institute museum

HOPPS, SHIRLEY NEILSEN

Unpublished thesis, ex-uni library, quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, 507pp, VG (relatively light library markings, some tanning to page edges & page peripherals, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: By the author 1964

KEYWORDS: Netherlands Dutch tryptichs art history

LUGT, FRITS

Two-volume set, quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front boards, xi + 595pp, xi + 463pp (main vol & supplement vol respectively), illus, nr fine TEXT IN FRENCH

PUBLISHER: ALan WOfsy FIne Arts 1975 & 1988 (Supplenent volume)

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH reference collecting collectibles collectors marks stamps art history

ALPERS, SVETLANA

THis volume only, small quarto, black buckram boards with gilt lettering in red decorative panel to spine, x + 386pp plus illus with 200 b&w plates at rear, VG (some tanning & foxing to page edges, light patch of soiling to lower page edges) in d/w, VG (some fading, some foxing, archival tape repair to small closed tears, some soiling)

PUBLISHER: Phaidon 1971

KEYWORDS: art history Torre de la Parada paintings sketches drawings RUbens

n/a

Quarto, black & white light card covers with white lettering, printed eps, x + 236pp + aprox 50pp appendices, illus, VG (light creasing & rubbing to covers, slight foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Rand 1998 (Rreprint of 1948 issue)

KEYWORDS: aircraft aviation history industry space aeronautical engineering spaceships satellite design

GEORGEL, PIERRE & LECOQ, ANNE-MARIE

Small quarto, cream light card covers with black lettering to spine & front cover, xv + 293pp, illus, VG (moderate foxing to covers & page edges & prelims & terminals) TEXT IN FRENCH

PUBLISHER: Musee des Beaux Arts Dijon 1982

KEYWORDS: art history painting TEXT IN FRENCH

DACOS, NICOLE

TEXT IN FRENCH, large quarto, mottled grey cloth boards with brown lettering to spine & front board, xx + 203pp, illus with 183 b&w plates at rear, VG (owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, slight foxing & tanning, small ding to rear board lower edges)

PUBLISHER: Warburg Institute University of London 1969

KEYWORDS: art history paintings sculptures Renaissance TEXT IN FRENCH

PEARS, SIR EDWIN

Octavo, grey cloth boards with title lettering to spine, page edges stained black, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 390pp, illus, very tatty (heavy staining to boards, bookseller's label to front pastedown, lacks fep, owner's name & date in ink to half-titleage, moderately heavy foxing & some staining to feps, heavy tanning & staining to rear eps, occasional soiling to pages)

PUBLISHER: Herbert Jenkins Ltd 1916 (2nd edition)

KEYWORDS: Constantinople travel SIr Edwin Pears autobiography history

JACKSON, ELIZABETH T.

Signed by author, large quarto, illus blue light card covers with black lettering to front & black taped spine, 170pp, illus, VG+ (v light staining to covers, light tanning)

PUBLISHER: Elizabeth Jackson 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland local history Meadowbank St Johns

FABRI, RIA & VAN DE VELDE, HILDEGARD (Eds)

TEXT IN DUTCH, octavo, illus heavy card boards, 119pp, illus, fine

PUBLISHER: Het Liber Amicorum 2013

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN DUTCH art history

MENDE, MATTHIAS

Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 559pp, illus, VG (light tanning & foxing to page edges, prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (some scuffing, light creasing to edges) TEXT IN GERMAN

PUBLISHER: Verlag Hans Carl 1983

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN coins medals art history ALbrecht Durer

BUTLER, SAMUEL

Octavo, red heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 133pp, illus, VG (owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (some staining)

PUBLISHER: Blackwood & Janet Paul 1964

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Canterbury history

CHALMERS, JAMES

Octavo, teal buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, black tree-hut illus to front board, frontispiece with tissueguard, iv + 312pp, illus, VG- (heavy foxing & browning, front hinge loosening, inscription in ink to fep, heavy browning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: The REligious Tract Society (n/d) but pre-1911)

KEYWORDS: New Guinea history anthropology James Chalmers travel autobiography

ZELDIN, THEODORE

FIRST EDITIONS, Two-volume set, super octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, 823pp, 1202pp (vols 1&2 respectively) VG+ (moderate foxing to page edges & lighter to eps) in d/w (VG+)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1973 & 1977

KEYWORDS: France French history

ORANGE, VINCENT

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: Grub Street 2013

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second world war politics biography memoir Winston Churchill raf aviation British ww1 first world war

PARR, ALISON

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, nr fine (prev. owner's details in pen to fep.)

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand second world war 2 ww2 military social history

TRINKLER, EMIL & FEATHERSTONE, B. K. (Ed/Trans)

Ex library, folding map at rear, octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges stained red, 246pp, folding map, VG- (heavy library markings, moderate fading to spine, front gutter cracked, light foxing, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Faber & Gwyer 1928

KEYWORDS: Afghanistan travel history