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$12.00
xxqgb145500

Early Days in the Waikato: A Centennial Volume


DRUMMOND, ALISON

Ex library, small quarto 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: Paul's Book Arcade 1974

KEYWORDS: History settlers pioneers Waikato New Zealand

$12.50
xxqgb145504

Old Wellington Hotels: Some History, Personalities and Anecdotes


LAWLOR, PAT

Ex library (tidy), small 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: Millwood Press 1974

KEYWORDS: Wellington hotels history New Zealand

$9.00
xxqgb145506

Wellington, Wellington: A History


FOWLER, MICHAEL

Ex library, signed by author, small 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: Mallinson Rendel 1981

KEYWORDS: History Wellington New Zealand

$9.00
xxqgb145508

Costly Gold: Clutha riches and their human toll


MURRAY, J.S. & MURRAY R.W.

Ex library, quarto 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: A.H. & A.W Reed 1978

KEYWORDS: Clutha gold New Zealand history

$14.00
xxqgb145512

On the Edge of Our City: A Pictorial History


KENNEALLY, J.M. & B.M.

quarto 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: Colonial Associates 1984

KEYWORDS: Island Bay Newtown Berhampore Lyall Bay Kilbirnie Seatoun Miramar Worser Bay Karaka Melrose pictorial history New Zealand

$10.00
xxqgb145517

Historic Kelburn


MOSS, BRIAN

Ex library, oblong light card cover booklet (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: Kelburn Playcentre 1975

KEYWORDS: Kelburn pictorial history Wellington New Zealand

$75.00
1y12/6

Reminiscences of a Wanderer


AN ABLE SEAMAN

First edition, super octavo, brown cardboard covers, handwritten lettering in marker pen to spine, 372pp, VG- (brown tape binding on spine sl. frayed & edges chipped; sl. rubbing & small marks on covers; fep sl. foxed, rep mod. foxed; tiny pencil crosses throughout on page margins, fep has had extensive pencil notes erased leaving light indentations, former owner's details embossed on fep)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1914

KEYWORDS: sailing merchant navy history biography yarns England America

$45.00
1y12/16

Pictorial History of The RAF: Volume 1: 1918-1939; Volume 2: 1939-1945; Volume 3: 1945-1969.


TAYLOR, J. W. R. & MOYES, P. J. R.

Three volume set, super octavo, blue cloth boards; silver lettering to spines, illus; vol 1: 202pp, vol 2: 240pp, vol 3: 208pp; illus, VG+ (all three vols in nice condition: sl. rubbing & bruising to boards, v. sl. foxing to top of page edges) in d/ws: vol 1 VG+ (v. sl. rubbing & bruising to edges, light foxing to eps, slight sunning to exterior), vols 2&3 VG (mod. tanning to exteriors, particularly spine; edges v. sl. rubbing & bruising to edges, with a little staining at extrems, light foxing to eps. Vol 3 is price clipped).

PUBLISHER: Ian Allan vols 1&2: 1969, vol 3: 1970

KEYWORDS: RAF Royal Air Force flying airplanes Britain England Flying Corps Naval Air Service history

$40.00
1y12/19

Blood Cries Afar: the Forgotten Invasion of England 1216


MCGLYNN, SEAN

Super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 287pp, illus, Near FINE in d/w Near FINE.

PUBLISHER: Spellmount 2011

KEYWORDS: history England Angevin Magna Carta King John Bouvines Normandy

$40.00
1y12/20

The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284


CARPENTER, DAVID

Super octavo, bright blue cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiv+614pp, illus, Near FINE in d/w Near FINE.

PUBLISHER: Allen Lane 2003

KEYWORDS: England history medieval Norman conquest King William Henry John Edward Wales Llewelyn

$45.00
1y12/21

Plantagenet England 1225-1360


PRESTWICH, MICHAEL

Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiv+614pp, illus, Near FINE in d/w Near FINE.

PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press Oxford 2005

KEYWORDS: history England Scotland Wales France King Henry John Edward Matilda land culture war Plantagenet church society farming law development Crecy Angevin Poitiers

$89.50
1y12/24

The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine: 1914-1918


GULLET, H.S.

Super octavo, burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, xxiv+844pp, illus, tatty (boards rather battered with bruising, rubbing, surface loss, staining, adhesive tape, and a 4cm tear on front board; loss of surface on corners; eps & page edges mod. browned; inscribed in ink to the editor on fep; sl. cocked; odour of naphthalene)

PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1923

KEYWORDS: ANZAC ANZACS Australia history Sinai Turkey Romani Egypt Gaza Beersheeba Bin Al Abd Katia

$57.50
1y12/216

Wrecked on a Reef or Twenty Months in the Auckland Isles. A True Story of Shipwreck, Adventure, and Suffering.


Translation of the 1880 text.

REYNAL, FRANCOIS & MORTELIER, CHRISTIANE (trans & appendices)

Super octavo, red cloth boards, white lettering on spine & front cover, frontispiece, 260pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w Near FINE.

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2003

KEYWORDS: autobiography 1880's history shipwreck survival

$17.50
xxqgb145527

The New Zealand People at War: Political and External Affairs


WOOD, F. L. W.

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: Dept of Internal Affairs 1958

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history militry politics ww2 second world war

$65.00
1y13/13

Freemasonry in Manawatu: History of the Lodge United Manawatu No. 1721, E. C. and of Other Masonic Lodges of the District From 1877 to 1922


LARCOMB, P. S.

Octavo, navy blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, 72pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & creasing to spine & extrems, moderate bruising & scuffing to board corners & edges, light/moderate tanning to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Keeling & Mundy (Printer) 1923

KEYWORDS: New Zealand freemasons freemasonry history Manawatu

$65.00
1y13/15

Seventy-Five Years History of Mount Egmont Lodge of Freemasons, New Plymouth, New Zealand, No. 670 on the Register of the United Grand Lodge of England


WHITE, P. J. H. & DE BATHE BRANDON, R. W. Bro A. (Fore) & BLACK, Wor. Bro. ALEXANDER

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, 118pp, illus, VG- (moderate scuffing & creasing to spine extrems, spine sl cocked, light/moderate scuffing to boards & corners, light tanning to page edges & eps, light soiling to eps)

PUBLISHER: McLeod & Slade (Printer) 1929

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history freemasonry illustrated freemasons Mount Egmont New Plymouth grand lodge

$48.50
1y13/21

La Austrialia Del Espiritu Santo: The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O. F. M. and Other Documents Relating to the Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627)


KELLY, CELSUS (Trans & Ed)

2 vol set, octavo, blue cloth boards, blind stamp lines to boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif to front boards, vol 1- xvii + 270pp, vol 2- xv + 176pp, illus, VG (sl staining to spines, vol 2- light creasing to base spine extrem, light/moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, vol 2- light foxing throughout, previous owner's name in pencil to front pastedowns) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning to spines, light foxing & tanning to edges, moderate chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press/Hakluyt Society 1966

KEYWORDS: exploration Fray Martin de Munilla Pedro Fernandez de Quiros nautical shipping marine sailing history travel

$50.00
1y13/22

The Evolution of the Idea of God


ALLEN, GRANT

Octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt religious motif to front board, ix + 447pp, VG- (in clear contact secured with tape to pastedowns, 6cm wide loss to spine extrems, light crack to full length of spine, old tape residue to spine from previous protective cover, repair tape to rear hinge, moderate foxing & tanning to page edges & eps, crack to full length of board gutters, sporadic & passionate underlining & annotations to text in red ink, crack to full length of gutter pgs 208-209)

PUBLISHER: Grant Richards 1897

KEYWORDS: religion theology Israel Palestine ancient history Christianity Judaism

$14.00
xxqgb145540

Golden Days of Lake County


MILLER, F.W.G.

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: Whitcombe and Tombs 1962

KEYWORDS: Central Otago history Lake County

$30.00
xxqgc145543

Documenting America 1935-1943


FLEISCHHAUER, CARL & BRANNAN, BEVERLY W. (eds)

Quarto 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 1988

KEYWORDS: Essays photographic history America social culture

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