BROCK, ALAN ST. H.

Imperial octavo, purple cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 280pp, illus. VG- (moderate rubbing & bruising to boards, moderate foxing, soiling & fading to eps & page edges, both gutters slightly awry, adhesive tape residue to prelims & eps due, several articles, excepts, pictures stuck into eps, contains strip of photo negatives) in d/w, tatty (closed tears to spine, brusing, creasing, moderate foxing & dampstaining),

PUBLISHER: George G. Harrop 1949 (?)

KEYWORDS: fireworks pyrotechnics history military entertainment pyrotechny chemistry manufacture accidents tradition traditions

KNOX, R. A.

Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, vi+622pp, illus title page, VG (moderate bruising, fading & bleach marks/colour loss to covers & edges; sl. fading to eps and page edges, mod. tanning on both eps; sl. cocked, deckled page edges) in d/w VG (sl. bruising, soiling & fading, partic. to spine; sl. foxing on interior)

PUBLISHER: University Press, Oxford 1951

KEYWORDS: Bible Christianity gospels history Jansenism reformation Quakers protesticism Moravian Guyon Fox Bourignon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MAIN, WILLIAM

Lacks d/w Oblong super 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: Millwood Press 1974

KEYWORDS: James Bragge photographic history

KENWAY, PHILIP T.

First edition, ex library, 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 Murray 1928

KEYWORDS: Biographical Kenway Poverty Bay New Zealand history

McERLANE, BRIAN

Tidy ex library, 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: Daily Telegraph (1977) ???

KEYWORDS: Napier New Zealand Cosmopolitan Club history

GRAINGER, JOHN

Ex library, signed by Pat Lawlor (NZ author), (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 1953

KEYWORDS: Auckland history New Zealand