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$40.00
2i38/18

The Mini Story


POMEROY, LAURENCE

Square octavo, orange boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 176pp. illus, VG (slight ding to board lower corners, v slight warp to boards, some foxing to page edges & eps, crease to fore-edge of several pages) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing to edges & corners, some repairs to closed tears, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Temple Press Books 1964

KEYWORDS: cars Mini automobiles automotive industry transport history

$140.00
2i38/19

Automobile Design: Great Designers and their Work


BARKER, RONALD & HARDING, ANTHONY (Eds)

Signed correspondence between Ronald Barker (two typed pages) between Ronald Barker & Author Maurice Hendry loosely enclosed, also a cache of lettering between Hendry & publishers as he was a contributor to the book (this is his copy), super octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper page edges stained red, 374pp, illus, VG- (some annotation in ink & pencil, moderate tanning to page edges, some foxing) in d/w, tatty (archival tape repairs to spine extrems & corners & flap folds, moderate soiling, creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1970

KEYWORDS: cars automobile design automotive engineering industry transport history

$80.00
2i38/23a

Roll of Early Settlers and Descendants in the Auckland Province Prior to the End of 1852


n/a

Oblong imperial octavo, brown cloth boards iwth gilt lettering to spine & front board, iv + 260pp, VG+ (inscription in ink to fep, some tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps)

PUBLISHER: Centennial Memorial Publication 1940

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland settlers history reference

$245.00
2i38/37

Mirror of the Earth: The World Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Painting


GIBSON, WALTER S.

Oblong quarto, green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xxiii + 156pp, illus with section of B&W plates at rear, VG+ (v slight soiling to spine extrems), in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: art history

$80.00
2i38/42

Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War


TARLING, NICHOLAS

Inscribed & signed by author, super octavo, red boards, gilt lettering to sipne, xii + 434pp, nr fine, in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, some slight scratching)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: Britain Pacific Southeast Asia military history war politics

$150.00
2i38/46a

Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence and National Honour 1833-1840


MELANCON, GLENN

Octavo, navy blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 158pp, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: Britain China Opium trade politics history

$180.00
2i38/49

The Renaissance Print 1470-1550


LANDAU, DAVID & PARSHALL, PETER

Large quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xii + 433pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1994

KEYWORDS: pirnting pirntmaking art history

$50.00
2s20a/3

Gli Arazzi del Cardinale: Bernardo Cles e il Ciclo della Passione di Pieter van Aelst


CASTELNUOVO, ENRICO

Ex library, folio, dark blue boards with blind-stamped lettering to spine & front board, ,illus eps, 320pp, illus, VG (usu library markings) in d/w, VG+ TEXT IN ITALIAN

PUBLISHER: Temii Editrice 1990

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN ITALIAN art history tapestries Italty

$25.00
xxrnj127322

The Stewart Islanders


SANSOM, OLGA

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: A.H. Reed & A.W. Reed 1970

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history

$35.00
xxrnj127326

The Escapes of Captain O'Brien R.N., 1804-1808


O'BRIEN, CAPTAIN

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: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd 1932

KEYWORDS: autobiography military history Captain O'Brien

$25.00
xxrnj127327

Locks, Bolts, and Bars: Stories of Prisoners in the French Wars, 1759-1814


ELTON, MRS OLIVER (Ed)

First edition, 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: Frederick Muller Ltd 1945

KEYWORDS: History France

$15.00
xxrnj127330

Homelands of the Clans


WARNER, GERALD

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: Collins 1980

KEYWORDS: Scottish history Scotland

$15.00
xxrnj127335

Prisoners-Of-War Work, 1756-1815


TOLLER, JANE

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 Golden Head Press 1965

KEYWORDS: military history English England

$12.00
xxrnj127338

Leisure Yesterday / New Zealand Yesterday Series, Vol. 1,


TEMPLE, PHILIP

Octavo stapled wrapper (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: John McIndoe 1980

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history

$12.00
xxrnj127339

Coaching Yesterday / New Zealand Yesterday Series, Volume 2


TEMPLE, PHILIP

Octavo stapled wrapper (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: John McIndoe Limited 1980

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history

$15.00
xxrnj127343

Fallout: Hedley Marston and the British Bomb Tests in Australia


CROSS, ROGER

Ex library, 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: Wakefield Press 2001

KEYWORDS: history science

$10.00
xxrnj127346

The Keen Countryman's Miscellany


HOLT, PETER

Tidy 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: Quiller 2012

KEYWORDS: history sport ephemera popular fiction

$10.00
xxrnj127347

Uncertain Roads: Searching for the Gypsies


STROM, YALE

Ex library 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: Four Winds Press 1993

KEYWORDS: history Roma gypsies

$14.00
xxrnj127355

The Turning Point : With New Zealand Engineers at El Alamein


REID, H. MURRAY

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 N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history EL Alamein 1942

$9.50
xxsak127458

In Search of Cultural History: The Philip Maurice Deneke Lecture 1967


GOMBRICH, E. 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: Clarendon/Oxford University Press 1978

KEYWORDS: culture lecture notes history Philip Maurice Deneke

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