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$40.00
ak2/5/182

Galeria Mundi III: Eine Reise Durch Die Museen / A Journey Through the Galleries / Une Promenade A Travers Les Musees / Una Gira por los Museos


N/A (HOECHST AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT)

HEAVY, TEXT IN GERMAN, FRENCH, ENGLISH & SPANISH, large folio pale grey cloth boards, illus., 268pp, VG+ (light foxing to boards & contents), in d/w VG+ (light foxing to covers, moderate foxing to reverse, small chip to bottom of spine), in slipcase VG (moderate foxing, light scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft 1988

KEYWORDS: Museums art history european Portugal Libson Antwerp Brussels Belgium Paris France Lugano Zurich Switzerland Winerthur Dresden Germany painting

$26.50
ak1/8/186

Early Man and the Ocean


HEYERDAHL, THOR

FIRST EDITION octavo hardover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1978

KEYWORDS: Modern first edition ocean oceans sea culture navigation sociology east island polynesia polynesian maritime history anthropology Pacific Atlantic voyage voyaging

$27.50
ak1/8/188

A Sailor's War


LOMBARD-HOBSON, SAM & MONSARRAT, ANN (foreword)

FIRSTE 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press 1983

KEYWORDS: modern first edition maritime naval navy history royal world war 2 ww2 military nicolas monsarrat dunkirk mediterranean

$25.00
ak1/8/190

Battle for Empire: The Very First World War 1756-63


POCOCK, TOM

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+, would be nr. FINE but for price clip); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Caxton Editions 1998

KEYWORDS: military history world seven years war sea power naval british george washington james wolfe americas george byng admiral william pitt

$26.50
ak1/8/191

Elizabeth's Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England


HUTCHINSON, ROBERT

Octavo hardcover (nr. FINE) in d/w (nr. 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006

KEYWORDS: english british history world queen elizabeth first 1st francis walsingham espionage spanish armada reformation elizabethan

$25.00
ak1/8/192

Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland


SCHEPER-HUGHES, NANCY

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2001 (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded)

KEYWORDS: Ballyban rural Ireland irish history british isles psychology sociology dingle peninsula ethnography

$26.50
ak1/8/195

Havelock North: From Village to Burough 1860 - 1952


GRANT, S. W. & DICK, PATRICIA (illus.)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hawkes Bay Newspapers Limited 1978

KEYWORDS: havelock north new zealand hastings regional history north island waimarama napier hawke's bay hawkes east coast north island

$32.50
ak1/8/196

No Place to Linger: Saga of a Wartime Atlantic Kiwi


HOLM, JOHN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Holmwork Publishers 1985

KEYWORDS: new zealand military history anzac naval maritime navy atlantic world war 2 ww2 u boat u-boats royal convoy convoys

$25.00
ak1/8/199

On A Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren


JARDINE, LISA

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins harper collins 2002

KEYWORDS: Sir Christopher Wren St Pauls saint cathedral architect architectural history art british england english biography

$35.00
ak1/8/199

A Short History of American Capitalism


WEINBERG, MEYER

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: New History Press 2003

KEYWORDS: economics economic history politics business capitalism sociology american united states america US USA

$30.00
ak1/8/200

Celebration: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand


LEACH, ANDREW & MATHEWSON, GILL (editors)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: SAHANZ 2005 (Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand)

KEYWORDS: new zealand australia oceania australasia architecture architectural history SAHANZ society of historians Napier

$30.00
ak1/8/201

Underwater Wonders of New Zealand


TORCKLER, GILLIAN & DARRYL

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: New Holland 1999

KEYWORDS: new zealand maritime natural history underwater photography nature sea sealife biology

$40.00
ak2/1/224

Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship


CUTLER, CARL C.

Quarto pale cream cloth boards, gilt & blue lettering to spine, illus., 688pp, VG+ (would be nr. FINE save for light foxing to boards), in d/w nr. FINE

PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press 1960 (Third Edition)

KEYWORDS: Clipper ships clippers US USA united states america maritime history

$45.00
ak2/1/230

Lords of the Air


HARPER, HARRY

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOUR & HIS WIFE, octavo blue boards with silver lettering to spine, illus., 216pp VG- (moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning and foxing to pages) in d/w VG- (chipped, scuffed & soiling, prev. owner's tape repairs)

PUBLISHER: R.T.S Lutterworth Press 1940

KEYWORDS: aviation history plane flying planes civil aeroplane pilot diaries memoirs racing

$50.00
ak2/2/224

The Quest for Longitude


ANDREWS, WILLIAM J. H. (ed)

Quarto hardcover (nr. FINE) in d/w (nr. 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University 1996

KEYWORDS: Exploration longitude science navigation scientific instruments history maritime

$40.00
ak2/2/225

Beken of Cowes 1: 1897-1914


BEKEN, FRANK & KEITH (photog.); CHALMER, JOHN (text); & GILKSMAN, ALAIN (foreword)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1966

KEYWORDS: Sail sailing maritime history photography Beken yacht yachting art painting

$45.00
ak2/2/226

Beken of Cowes 2: 1919-1939 with the 12-Metres and the America's Cup and One Designs and the Metre Boats


BEKEN, FRANK & KEITH (photog.); GILKSMAN, ALAIN, CHAMIER, JOHN & BARRAULT, JEAN-MICHEL (text)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER:

KEYWORDS: Sail sailing maritime history photography Beken yacht yachting art painting America's americas cup Cowes metre boats boat 12 12-metres 12-metre metres

$245.00
ak2/2/226a

Te Tarata: The Tattooed Rock: Contemporary Accounts of the Thermal Terraces at Rotomahana


BEALE, G. A. (ed. & introduction)

LIMITED EDITION OF 150 COPIES, octavo brown leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus.,xxvii+maps/illus.+109pp, nr. FINE in d/w VG+ (light tanning and scuffing, in protective plastic cover

PUBLISHER: Cadenza Press Publications 1971

KEYWORDS: Pink White Terraces New Zealand history geothermal Rotomahana Te Tarata Rotorua springs hot diffenbach richard taylor ferdinand von hochstetter alfred domett anthony trollope william fox travers gilbert mair Arawa Ohinemutu Ngati Whakaue Tuhourangi Tarawera Lake

$50.00
ak2/2/229a

Air Navigation: Volume 1


N/A [AIR MINISTRY 1944]

Quarto blue cloth boards, white lettering to front board & spine, illus., 296pp, incl. folding maps/charts (charts of magnetic variation for 1933, 1922; plotting series 5th edition; navigation log, form 441), VG- (soiling and scuffing to boards (moderate), front hinge internally sloppy, moderate tanning & soiling to conents)

PUBLISHER: Command of the Air Council / Air Ministry, May, 1944

KEYWORDS: Royal Air Force Ministry Council navigation pathfinding aviation military history historical document documents RAF air world word second 2 ww2 star charts maps topography tactics tactical air combat

$40.00
ak2/2/233

A History of the Practice of Navigation


HEWSON, COMMANDER J. B.

Small quarto blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus., 295pp, VG+ (light soiling to boards, moderate foxing & tanning to endpapers & fep.) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Brown, Son & Ferguson 1983 (revised second edition)

KEYWORDS: Navigation maritime history science explorarton ship ships shipping

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