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$70.00
1y53/42

Unfinished Business: The Second Fifty Years of the Nelson City Council


BELL, C. W.

SIGNED IN 1983 BY DEPUTY MAYOR & CITY MANAGER, octavo, blue faux boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt crest to front board, printed front ep, mayoral plate & blind embossed office stamp to fep, frontispiece, x + 150pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to front board) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing to spine & covers, 4cm closed tear to front cover with subtle tape repair)

PUBLISHER: Nelson City Council 1978

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson south island history city council illustrated signed

$40.00
1y53/43

Sounds of Brass: History of the Takaka Citizens Band


KING, F. BRUCE

Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, vi + 156pp + unpaginated appendices, illus, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to spine with some light discolouration, light chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Stiles Printing (Printer) circa 1990

KEYWORDS: New Zealand music history Takaka brass band illustrated

$27.50
xxsav149200

Marvels of Ant Life


KIRBY, W. F.

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: S.W. Patridge & Co 1898

KEYWORDS: ants natural history illustrated

$30.00
xxsav149203

Ordance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Volume Thirty-Eight: Parishes of County Donegal I 1833-5, North-East Donegal


DAY, ANGELIQUE & MCWILLIAMS, PATRICK (eds)

This volume only, 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: The Institute of Irish Studies 1999

KEYWORDS: Ireland history memoirs society culture

$22.50
xxsax149208

Battle for Egypt: The Second New Zealand Division at El Alamein


VARIOUS

Stapled light card covers, 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: Army Board: Wellington 1945

KEYWORDS: world war 2 ww2 New Zealand NZ battle warfare reports history memoirs illustrated photography Egypt maps

$22.50
xxsax149210

Roads to Rome: With the Second New Zealand Division from Maadi to Florence


VARIOUS

Stapled light card covers, 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: Army Board: Wellington 1946

KEYWORDS: world war 2 ww2 New Zealand NZ battle warfare reports history memoirs illustrated photography Italy maps

$15.00
xxsax149211

The Diamond Track: From Egypt to Tunisia with the Second New Zealand Division 1942-1943


VARIOUS

Stapled light card covers, 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: Army Board: Wellington 1945

KEYWORDS: world war 2 ww2 New Zealand NZ battle warfare reports history memoirs illustrated photography maps

$12.00
xxsax149217

East of Malta West of Suez: The Admiralty Account of the Naval War in the Eastern Mediterranean September 1939 to March 1941


VARIOUS

Stapled light card covers, super octavo softcover (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: His Majesty's Stationary Office 1943

KEYWORDS: ww2 world war 2 mediterranean navy warfare reports photography maps history

$30.00
xxsax149222

Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Volume Thirty-Nine: Parishes of County Donegal II 1835-6, Mid, West and South Donegal


DAY, ANGELIQUE & MCWILLIAMS, PATRICK (eds)

This volume only, 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: The Institute of Irish Studies 2006

KEYWORDS: Ireland history memoirs society

$25.00
xxsax149223

Kiwi Battlefields


PALENSKI, RON

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: Hatchette NZ 2011

KEYWORDS: war New Zealand battle history memoirs

$15.00
xxaac149226

The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci


POPHAM, A. E. (ed)

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: The Reprint Society London 1954

KEYWORDS: Da Vinci history art illustrated mechanics nature life drawings

$70.00
1y53/49

British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800: Comprising a History and Bibliography of Botanical and Horticultural Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland From the Earliest Times Until 1800


HENREY, BLANCHE

3 VOLUME SET, quarto, dark grey heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispieces, xvi-xxvi + 142pp-748pp, illus, Near FINE (possible author's signature in ink to full title page of vol 1) in slipcase, VG (moderate scuffing to boards

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1975

KEYWORDS: British botany horticulture plants history books bibliography literature collection

$40.00
1y53/50

The Full Story of the Great Earthquake Disaster at Hawke's Bay, New Zealand on 3rd February, 1931


N/A

Quarto, red stapled light card covers, black lettering to covers, adverts to eps, unpaginated, illus, VG- (heavy creasing & scuffing to covers with moderate soiling, moderate creasing & staining to page egdes, heavy rusting to staples with staining, central pgs completely detached but present)

PUBLISHER: The Weekender 1931

KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural disasters media journalism history earthquakes illustrated pictorial Hawke's Bay north island

$95.00
1y54/1

Zealandia: Our Continent Revealed


MORTIMER, NICK & CAMPBELL, HANMISH

Quarto, light blue heavy card boards, blind lettering & map to boards, illus eps & prelims, 271pp, illus, VG+ in d/w VG+

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2014

KEYWORDS: New Zealand west Pacific Zealandia antiquity history anthropology illustrated

$100.00
1y54/3

Paul Klee and His Illness: Bowed But Not Broken by Suffering and Adversity


SUTER, HANS & McKAY, GILL (Trans) & McKAY, NEIL (Trans)

Quarto, black cloth boards, white lettering to spine, white illus to front board, frontispiece, 272pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Karger 2010

KEYWORDS: Paul Klee biography memoir illness medical dermatology artist art history illustrated skin disease

$65.00
1y54/6

Anatoki Settlers: The Story of Two Pioneering Families: Spittal and Gooch and Their Involvement in the Area Known as Anatoki


LANGFORD, GERALD & GAFFNEY, SALLY (Intro)

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, quarto, illus glossy card covers, 186pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine)

PUBLISHER: Sally Gaffney 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand pioneers settlers illustrated family history geneaology Spittal Gooch signed

$30.00
xxaad149231

Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall


VAIZEY, HESTER

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: Oxford University Press 2014

KEYWORDS: Berlin wall history Germany communism capitalism memoirs society

$14.00
xxaae149237

Israel at Sixty: A Pictorial and Oral History of a Nation Reborn


HART STROBER, DEBORAH & STROBER, GERALD S.

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: Wiley 2008

KEYWORDS: Israel history culture photography

$28.50
xxabe149252

Sovereign Butter: Seventy Five Years of Production


NEWPORT, J. N. W.

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: The Golden Bay Dairy Factory Company Limited 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Golden Bay dairy butter Sovereign

$27.50
xxacd149263

1893 Onwards...Reminiscences of Golden Bay A. & P. Shows


HUNT, CHRISTINE

Signed by author, 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: Golden Bay A. & P. Association ?1980

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Golden Bay photography

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