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$20.00
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A Woman of Good Character: Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth Century New Zealand


MACDONALD, CHARLOTTE

First edition, lacks fep, 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: Allen & Unwin/Historical Branch 1990

KEYWORDS: New Zealand women settlers settlement history social first edition

$35.00
xxplg136731

The Boy's Own Annual


N/A

Rebacked new eps, small part of front folding plate is missing, quarto 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Boy's Own Paper Office 1922-23

KEYWORDS: history boy's own annual literature children's

$18.50
xxplh136771

Captain William Bligh


WEATE, PHILIP & GRAHAM, CAROLINE

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Paul Hamlyn 1972

KEYWORDS: biography William Bligh maritime exploration nautical history hms bounty mutiny

$9.00
xxplh136782

English Eccentrics


SITWELL, EDITH

Paperback (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: Penguin Books 1980

KEYWORDS: literature history archaeology biographies eccentrics

$10.00
xxplh136794

Blood & Oil: A Prince's Memoir of Iran, From the Shah to the Ayatollah


FARMANFARMAIAN, MANUCHER & FARMANFARMAIAN, ROXANE

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: Random House 2005

KEYWORDS: Iran history culture opec autobiography royal family Iranian

$10.00
xxplh136815

Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge


RUDE, GEORGE

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: Phoenix Press 2002

KEYWORDS: Europe history politics economics military industrial revolution

$10.00
xxplh136816

The Weaker Vessel: Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England


FRASER, ANTONIA

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: Mandarin 1995

KEYWORDS: women history culture Europe

$350.00
2s3a/39

A Second Book of Leo Bensemann's Work: Exemplified in Twenty Drawings, in Pen & Pencil Together with Six Engravings on Wood, and Specimens of Calligraphy and Typography


BENSEMANN'S, LEO

Imperial octavo, purple boards with red lettering to spine, unpagenated, illus, VG (previous owner's name in ink to fep, light rubbing to boards, light tanning to spine)

PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 1952

KEYWORDS: arts Drawing New Zealand Calligraphy history

$40.00
2s3a/44

Journal Kept in New Zealand in 1820


MCCRAE, ENSIGN ALEXANDER

Super octavo, grey cloth boards with black lettering to front board, patterned eps, 31pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Govt. Printer 1928

KEYWORDS: autobiography New Zealand history

$40.00
2s3a/49

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History: The Langauges of the Pacific


BROWN, J. MACMILLAN

Super octavo, grey stapled wrappers, 17pp, VG (light rubbing & light soiling to wrapper)

PUBLISHER: Bishop Museum Press 1920

KEYWORDS: Ethnology Polynesia natural history

$9.00
xxhte136830

Oil Notes


BASS, RICK

First edition, ex library, 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: Collins 1989

KEYWORDS: oil exploration history fossil fuel

$12.00
xxhtf136839

A Crack in the Edge of the World


WINCHESTER, SIMON

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: Penguin Books 2005

KEYWORDS: America History earthquake

$12.50
xxhtg136844

The Confidential Hope of a Miracle: The True History of The Spanish Armada


HANSON, NEIL

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: Doubleday 2003

KEYWORDS: history spanish armada war

$9.50
xxpli136852

The Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty


ALEXANDER, CAROLINE

octavo softcover (VG-) foxed: 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: Harper Perennial 2004

KEYWORDS: history Bounty Bligh mutiny maritime adventure sea

$14.00
xxpli136853

The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Research into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, RN.


DARWIN, CHARLES & AMIGONI, DAVID (intro)

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: Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1997

KEYWORDS: history geology natural maritime adventure sea Royal Navy Beagle Darwin journal voyage zoology evolution

$10.00
xxpli136856

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood


FULLER, ALEXANDRA

octavo softcover (VG-) tanning: 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: Picador 2003

KEYWORDS: Rhodesia South Africa pioneers farming memoir history settlers civil war

$17.50
xxpli136865

Shipminder: the Story of Her Majesty's Coastguard


SCARLETT, BERNARD

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: Pelham Books Ltd 1971

KEYWORDS: coastguard. history heroism rescue boats nautical photographs illustrated Royal Navy

$15.00
xxpli136871

Ship on Shore


FOSTER, JANE

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: Rowfant Books 1982

KEYWORDS: military history maritime boats

$12.50
xxplj136939

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam


TUCKMAN, BARBARA W.

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: Sphere Books Ltd 1985

KEYWORDS: history commentary politics government America Britain ancient Greek Vietnam

$10.00
xxplj136941

The Battle for the Rhine 1944


Arnhem and the Ardennes: The Campaign in Europe

NEILLANDS, ROBIN

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: Cassell Military Paperbacks 2006

KEYWORDS: military history WWII Europe campaign battle Arnhem Montgomery Eisenhower

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