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$100.00
1w47/13

State Museum: Memoir 15: Wild Flowers of New York: 2 Volumes


HOUSE, HOMER D.

2 vol set, Quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 185pp (vol1), 177(vol2), illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of the State of New York 1923

KEYWORDS: botany New York natural history plants wild flowers biology

$85.00
1w47/14

The Aloes of South Africa


REYNOLDS, GILBERT WESTACOTT

Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, xviii + 534pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: A.A. Balkema 1974

KEYWORDS: botany natural history plants Aloe South Africa biology

$100.00
1w47/18

An Almanack: For the Year of Our Lord: 1880


WHITAKER, JOSEPH

Octavo, green boards with red spine, gilt lettering to spine, 384pp + lxxiv, illus, VG (previous owner's name in ink to fep, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: J. Whitaker 1880(?)

KEYWORDS: history reference almanack

$50.00
1w47/19

Bishop Harper and the Canterbury Settlement


PURCHAS, H.T.

Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, x + 253pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, moderate rubbing to boards, light tanning to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1909

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury Settlers Bishop Harper

$100.00
1w47/20

Notes on the Progress of New Zealand 1864-1884


STOUT, ROBERT

Octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, patterned eps, 39pp + fold out diagrams at the back, VG (previous owner's name in ink to fep, light cellotape residue to eps, light bruising to spine extrems,

PUBLISHER: George Didsbury 1886

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Business economics sociology

$200.00
1w47/23

Colonial Memories


BROOME, LADY

First edition, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxii + 301pp, VG (previous owner's name in pencil to fep and their label, ligth tanning & light foxing to page edges, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Smith Elder 1904

KEYWORDS: Great Britain Colonies biography Sociology history

$155.00
1w47/24

Pioneers of Canterbury: Deans Letters 1840-1854


DEAN, JOHN

First edition, Octavo, brown cloth boards, brown lettering to spine, frontispiece, 312pp, illus, VG (previous owner's name & date in ink to fep, light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Reed (n/d)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury autobiography letters John Dean

$45.00
1w47/25

The Otago Medical School: Under the First Three Deans


BELL, GORDON & HERCUS, CHARLES

Super octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 381pp, illus, VG (light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning, light rubbing, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: E. & S. Livingstone 1964

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Dunedin medicine school Otago

$16.50
xxppg140930

Jackets of Green: A Study of the History, Philosophy, and Character of the Rifle Brigade


BRYANT, ARTHUR

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (Scruffy); 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 1973

KEYWORDS: history war rifle brigade

$19.50
xxpph140974

American Sensations: Class, Empire and the Production of Popular Culture


STREEBY, SHELLEY

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: University of California Press 2002

KEYWORDS: class empire sociology popular culture American studies literature history

$35.00
xxpph140975

Medieval Religion


ANDERSON, ROBERTA & BELLENGER, DOMINIC AIDAN (Eds)

Imperial 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: Routledge 2007

KEYWORDS: religion theology medieval history antiquities

$22.50
xxpph140982

The Shock of Medievalism


BIDDICK, KATHLEEN

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: Duke University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: history cultural studies medieval

$30.00
xxppi140991

British Ballads: Old and New: Vol 1


SMITH, GEORGE BARNETT

This vol only, imperial 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: Cassell and Company 1897

KEYWORDS: literature poems verse poetry collection anthology history

$16.00
xxppi140993

Her-Bak Pois Chiche: Visage Vivant de L'Ancienne Egypte


DE LUBICZ, ISHA SCHWALLER & LAMY, LUCIE (Illus)

TEXT IN FRENCH, 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: Flammarion 1955

KEYWORDS: text in French ancient Egypt culture illustrated history

$16.50
xxppi140998

Fairburn and Friends


RUPERT GLOVER ET AL & HOLMAN, DINAH (Ed) & CATLEY, CHRISTINE COLE (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: Cape Catley 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand ARD Rex Fairburn biography social political literary history anecdotes

$22.50
xxppi140999

Eternal Man


PAUWELS, LOUIS & BERGIER, JACQUES & HERON, MICHAEL (Trans)

First edition, 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: Souvenir Press 1972

KEYWORDS: first edition civilisation ancient history anthropology archaeology antiquities theory

$26.50
xxppi141013

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War


BRADFORD, NED (ed)

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: Hawthorn Books 1956

KEYWORDS: Military history American Civil War biography accounts

$50.00
1w47/50

From New York to New Zealand; or, the New Century Trip


MCMURRAN, C. W. & MONTROSE, C. O. (Ed) & STOUT, SIR ROBERT (Intro)

Large folding map at front, octavo, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, vii + 150pp, illus, VG (moderate soiling to boards, moderate browning to spine, slight bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, map clean & tidy with light foxing to margins only)

PUBLISHER: John Mackay Government Printing Office 1904

KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel history CW McMurran

$17.50
xxftc141042

The Art of Blitzkrieg


MESSENGER, CHARLES

Octavo hardcover (VG-), lacks 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: Ian Allan 1976

KEYWORDS: War military history tactics Blitzkrieg

$30.00
xxppi141059

British Queer History


LEWIS, BRIAN (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: Manchester University Press 2013

KEYWORDS: history gay homosexual sexuality essays collection anthology culture

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