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$40.00
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Aspects of Darwin: A New Zealand Celebration


GALLOWAY, DAVID & TIMMINS, JOHN (Eds)

Inscribed & signed by David Galloway, octavo, illus heavy card boards, white & light brown coloured lettering to spine, illus eps, iv + 180pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light scuffing to boards)

PUBLISHER: Knox College Library, Hewitson Library 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature essays prose collection anthology history evolution Charles Darwin science Knox College

$150.00
2g27a/57

Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem in Two Volumes


TASSO, TORQUATO & HUNT, REV. J. H. (Trans)

First edition thus, 2 volume set, octavo, leather quarter bound marbled heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp & gilt decorative rule to spine, marbled page edges & eps, xxii + 439pp-vol 1 & 444pp-vol 2, VG- (heavy but age appropriate scuffing to spine & board edges, moderate bruising to board corners, moderately heavy scuffing to boards, light fading & foxing to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: J. Mawman 1818

KEYWORDS: literature poem poetry Torquato Tasso history crusades Jerusalem modern first edition thus

$800.00
2i47a/1

The Growth and Distribution of Population in the Auckland Province: From the Commencement of Settlement to 1945


HORSMAN, J.

Author's original copy of unpublished original thesis with original hand-drawn maps, original photographs etc, quarto, green buckram spine with green heavy card boards, unpaginated but approx 286pp pencilled into top of page corners, illus, VG- (moderate creasing & scuffing to spine & extrems, heavy scuffing with some loss to board corners & edges, 2cm open tear to paper surface covering of front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & sporadically throughout, minimal library stamps to eps, 2cm closed tear to 'frame' of illus #5 causing separation from bottom edge of the illus - illus still intact, 'frames' to photo pages completely separated from photos but all photos from pages believed to be present & most are still fixed to page)

PUBLISHER: J Horsman approx 1948 (see description)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history growth population thesis J Horsman settlement pakeha maori trading

$30.00
2i47a/7

Bits and Pieces: A Factual History of Toi Tois and Waikawa Districts Southland


ROBSON, JAMES & WATT, J. O. P. (Assoc)

Octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 132pp, VG+ (light fading to spine & top of cover edges, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1967

KEYWORDS: history New Zealand Toi Tois Waikawa districts southland culture

$350.00
2i47a/8

New Zealand Rough Riders From Otago & Southland: Fourth and Fifth Contingent: Send-Off Edition


N/A

Scarce, oblong imperial octavo, illus stapled light card covers, illus eps & prelims, unpaginated, illus, VG- (heavy tanning & moderate soiling to covers, light creasing to cover corners, moderate rusting to staples, light tanning & foxing to fep, pencil scribble to verso title page, 10cm closed tear to fold out photo, moderate creasing to page corners)

PUBLISHER: Joseph Braithwaite 1900

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history rough riders Otago Southland fourth fifth contingent illustrated photos photographs

$245.00
2i47a/19

A Choice Collection of Chinese Fan-Cover Calligraphic Works and Paintings


N/A

Quarto, grey boards, brown eps, unpagenated, illus, VG+ (light soiling to page edges) in d/w VG (light creasing, light rubbing, moderate bruising to spine extrems, 4.5cm closed tear to front cover, 7cm closed tear to lower front cover corner, 7cm & 3cm closed tear at lower spine, 5cm closed tear to lower rear cover corner)

PUBLISHER: Henan Art Publishing House (n/d)

KEYWORDS: Chinese fan cover history arts painting calligraphic

$40.00
2i47a/20

Peter McIntyre's New Zealand


MCINTYRES, PETER

First edition, lacks d/w, Imperial octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, illus title page, unpagenated, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Reed 1964

KEYWORDS: biography history New Zealand paintings arts sketching drawing

$65.00
2i47a/21

Chauvet Cave: The Discovery of the World's Oldest Paintings


CHAUVET, JEAN-MARIE & HILLAIRE, CHRISTIAN & DESCHAMPS, ELIETTE BRUNEL

Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards, gitl lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, 135pp, illus, VG+ (very light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1996

KEYWORDS: history civilisation Chauvet cave drawings paintings France

$38.50
2i47a/26

Let There Be Light...: A History of Bullendale and the Generation of Electric Power in Central Otago


HALL, RON C. & CHANDLER, PETER M.

Quarto, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 186pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Central Otago News 1986

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Central Otago Bullendale Electric Power technology

$55.00
2i47a/28

Orient Guide: Fifth Edition


LOFTIE, W.J.?

Octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, illus eps, edges stained red, li + 430pp, illus, VG- (previous owner's name in ink to fep, moderate rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, spine hinges with lightly cracked, eps with illus partially ripped off from boards, light sporadic foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: (n/d)

KEYWORDS: travel sea land history

$45.00
2i47a/29

New Zealand Index 1921


N/A

Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and boards, illus eps, 580pp, illus, VG (light fading to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, light sporadic foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: H. Wise & Co. 1921

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history

$16.50
xxfie139668

Club Motor Racing


GAVIN, JIM

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: B.T. Batsford 1977

KEYWORDS: club motor racing sports history

$17.50
xxfie139673

Living and Partly Living


MUCHA, JIRI

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: Hogarth Press 1967

KEYWORDS: Political prisoners Czechoslovakia Biography history

$15.00
xxfie139676

Some Sunny Day: My Autobiography


LYNN, VERA

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: HarperCollins 2009

KEYWORDS: autobiography World War Two Britain history

$30.00
xxfie139677

Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret


GANNON, PAUL

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: Atlantic Books 2006

KEYWORDS: World War Two WW2 Lorenz cipher system military history

$30.00
xxfih139690

The Art of D.R. Neilson


NEILSON, D.R.

Signed by artist, Square Imperial 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: Reed 1967

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history paintings arts

$26.50
xxfii139698

The Masculine Women in America 1890-1935


BEHLING, LAURA L.

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 Illinois Press 2001

KEYWORDS: history Women Sex differences literature

$9.00
xxfja139738

A History of Scotland


MACKIE, J.D.

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1964

KEYWORDS: History Scotland

$18.50
xxfji139792

The Diary of a World War I Cavalry Officer


HOME, ARCHIBALD BRIGADIER GENERAL SIR

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: D J Costello 1985

KEYWORDS: Diary biography military history 11th Hussars cavalry World War I

$23.50
xxfjj139796

Shattered Glory: The New Zealand Experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front


WRIGHT, MATTHEW

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 2010

KEYWORDS: Military history New Zealand World War 1

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