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$100.00
1y49/29

The Life of a Regiment: The History of the Gordon Highlanders: Vol 1: From its Formation in 1794 to 1816, Vol 2: From 1816 to 1898 (Including an Account of the 75th Regiment From 1787 to 1881)


GARDYNE, Lt.-Col. C. GREENHILL

2 VOLUME SET, super octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spines, black regimental insignia to front boards, frontispieces, illus title pages, xx-xxiv + 438pp-346pp, illus, folding maps, VG (moderate bruising & chafing to spine extrems & board corners, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to gutter of pgs 320-321 of vol 1)

PUBLISHER: The Medici Society 1929

KEYWORDS: military history line infantry British army 75th regiment illustrated maps Scotland Scottish

$33.50
xxshu148886

Tales of Old North Taranaki


MOORHEAD, MURRAY

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: NZ Founders 1991

KEYWORDS: Taranaki New Zealand 150 years pictorial history

$12.50
xxshw148909

Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present


COOPER, FREDERICK

Super octavo softcover (Near FINE); 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: Cambridge Uni Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Africa history colonial post-colonial

$20.00
xxsid148935

Presentation of Colours to the First Battalion The South Wales Borderers and the Second Battalion The Monmouth Regiment by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II


REVEREND CANON PIKE, V.J.

Super octavo green slim 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: Gale and Polden c. July 1958

KEYWORDS: Programme ceremony presentation of colours South Wales Borderers Monmouthshire Regiment 1958 military history royalty

$17.50
xxsid148941

Africa: History of a Continent


DAVIDSON, BASIL

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1967

KEYWORDS: Africa African culture history archaeology monuments

$16.50
xxsif148947

Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia Volume 3: World History From Earliest Times to 1800


JUDGE, HARRY (ed)

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: Oxford University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: History world encyclopedia ancient to1800

$30.00
xxsif148949

Amazonia


ABELL, SAM

Quarto softcover with french flaps (Near FINE); 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 Oregon Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Natural history art photography Amazon Amazonia

$40.00
1y49/37

Maori Lore


IZETT, JAMES

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule to boards, printed eps, vii + 451pp, illus, v tatty (v heavy scuffing & bruising to extrems, heavy discolouration to spine, heavy cracking to hinges & gutters, heavy damp staining to board edges & eps, owner's name in pencil to frotn pastedown, fep & prelim pgs i-vi missing, clumps of pgs either v loose or completely detached)

PUBLISHER: Unknown- copyright page missing (Possibly John Mackay, Gov't Printer)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated lore history myths legends antiquity

$160.00
1y49/40

Frontier Life: Taranaki, New Zealand


BROOKES, EDWIN STANLEY

FIRST EDITION, ex-library, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, blind decorative stamp to boards, frontispiece, viii + 204pp, illus, VG- (usual library markings, very heavy chipping to spine extrems with 2cm loss to base, light bruising to board corners, heavy discolouration & 3cm scuff with loss to spine, moderate chafing & discolouration to boards, sl insect damage to rear board & pastedown, moderate tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: H. Brett 1892

KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand history illustrated Taranaki settlers colonisation colonization

$85.00
1y49/42

Chiang Kai-Shek and the Unity of China


REASON, JOYCE

FIRST EDITION, JULY 1943, PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH HOUSE NOT CARGATE PRESS- UNUSUAL VARIANT, small octavo, illus stiff card boards, black lettering to spine, 80pp, VG- (heavy bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate discolouration & scuffing to spine, moderate foxing to board edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy water stain to internal side of rear cover, sunday school stamp in ink to internal side of front board)

PUBLISHER: Edinburgh House Press 1943

KEYWORDS: first edition China politics Asia communism history

$55.00
1y49/43

Napier Diamond Jubilee Carnival 1874 - 1934


MORSE, C. O. ET AL

Octavo, illus stapled card wrappers, printed eps, unpaginated, illus, VG (moderate scuffing to spine, light chafing/creasing & soiling to covers & edges, light rusting to staples)

PUBLISHER: Swailes Printing (Printer) 1934

KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated Napier jubilee diamond sixty 60 years history

$55.00
1y49/45

Otago Boys' High School Magazine Diamond Jubilee


FULTON, R. V. ET AL

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 128pp, illus, folding photo to rear, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine & cover edges, moderate tanning & foxing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Coulls Somerville Wilkie (Printer) 1923

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Boys' high school diamond jubilee illustrated history education Dunedin

$22.50
xxsih148968

Twenty Two Fateful Days


MANKEKAR, D. R.

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: Deep Publicatiosn 1970

KEYWORDS: war history india pakistan politics battle

$9.50
xxsij148988

The Long White Cloud: Ao Tea Roa


REEVES, WILLIAM PEMBER

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: Viking 1987

KEYWORDS: history new zealand colonisation

$20.00
xxsir149001

Elizabeth's London; Everyday life in Elizabethan London


PICARD, LIZA

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: St. Martin's Press 2003

KEYWORDS: elizabethan london history daily life everyday england

$16.50
xxsit149031

The Concise Oxford History of Music


ABRAHAM, GERALD

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: Oxford University Press 1985

KEYWORDS: concise music history ancient classical

$90.00
1y50/15

Colonial Gothic to Maori Renaissance: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Mane-Wheoki


McCARTHY, CONAL & STOCKER, MARK (Eds)

Lg quarto, illus glossy hard boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 322pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to board & spine extrems, light chafing to boards, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Viictoria University Press 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand culture history illustrated essays literature Maori art Jonathan Mane-Wheoki

$300.00
1y50/17

Overland From Auckland to Wellington in 1853; Being Notes of Travel


MACKENZIE, LIEUTENANT F. W. & MACKENZIE, Capt. F. W. (After) & BETT, ANDREW (Pref)

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, 82pp, VG (light scuffing & bruising to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, owner's name & inscription in ink to verso of title page)

PUBLISHER: J. Wilkie & Co 1893

KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel exploration history north island first edition

$55.00
1y50/21

The Knapdale Run: Its Land and People


KERSE, ELIZABETH (Ed) & MacKAY, L. G. (Fore)

Imperial octavo, green heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 339pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & discolouration to spine extrems & board edges, light wrinkling to rear pages) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & light chipping to edges, light chafing & staining to spine & covers)

PUBLISHER: Knapdale Book Committee circa 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated history farming pioneers settlements Knapdale settlers anthropology culture

$15.00
xxsja149065

The Ocean in the Sand


HOLBORN, MARK

Square 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: Gordon Fraser 1978

KEYWORDS: japan japanese garden landscaping garden history

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