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Lords of the Air
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
The Quest for Longitude
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
Beken of Cowes 1: 1897-1914
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
Beken of Cowes 2: 1919-1939 with the 12-Metres and the America's Cup and One Designs and the Metre Boats
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.
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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
Te Tarata: The Tattooed Rock: Contemporary Accounts of the Thermal Terraces at Rotomahana
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
Air Navigation: Volume 1
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
A History of the Practice of Navigation
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
The Opium Clippers
Quarto navy blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to front & spine, illus., xiv+392, nr. FINE in d/w VG+ (light scuffing, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Brown, Son & Ferguson 1976 reprint
KEYWORDS: Opium Clippers sailing sail maritime history south china seas sea clipper archipelago malay east eastern southeast Asia
The Beauty of Your House: The Nelson Catholic Parish 1844-1994
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Nelson Catholic Presbytery 1994
KEYWORDS: Nelson Catholic Catholicism New Zealand history church regional church religion religious Christian Christianity
Tahiti 1834-1984: 150 ans de vie chretienne en Eglise
TEXT IN FRENCH; SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, quarto brown hard card boards, gilt lettering to cover & spine, 702pp., VG+ (tidy ex-library, usual stamps & markings), in d/w VG (light foxing & scuffing, tape & sticker residue to cover)
PUBLISHER: Archeveche de Papeete 1983
KEYWORDS: Tahiti tahitian polynesia French missionary Church history oceania Christian Christianity Catholic catholicism
Son of Spain: Diego Velazquez Volume 1
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo illus. light card covers, 224pp., VG+ (light soiling to edges)
PUBLISHER: Tate Publishing 2012
KEYWORDS: Historical fiction signed Spain early modern art painters painter painting history Iberian Diego Velazquez
Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion: World War II
Quarto black cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, illus., 318pp VG (light scuffing to boards, prev. owner's name in pen to fep., minor water damage to last half along bottom edge, mostly minor with text unaffected) in d/w nr. FINE
PUBLISHER: Magna Books / Euredition 1993
KEYWORDS: Propaganda Nazi German Third Reich world war two second ww2 posters military history
The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Conexts and Perspectives
SCARCE; 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: Victoria University Press 2002
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Irish Ireland history pioneers colonial
Street Names Tell History of Alice Springs / The Story of Centralian Advocate: Alice Springs and Central Australia's first Newspaper
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: Centralian Advocate Pty Ltd 1980
KEYWORDS: Jose Petrick Robert Watt history street names central australia alice springs
Roughtail: The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and other stories told by the Kukatja
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: Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation 1999
KEYWORDS: Joe Tramacchi Gracie Greene Lucille Gill aboriginal mythology legends literature history australian australia illustrated indigenous short stories
Introducing Shakespeare: Third Edition: Revised and Expanded
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: Penguin Books Ltd 1966
KEYWORDS: G.B. Harrison Shakespeare biography elizabethan history theatre
The Racing Coopers
FIRST EDITION, 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: Cassell & Company Ltd 1959
KEYWORDS: Arthur Owen racing racer automobiles cars car race cooper motorsports motorsport history
Formula 1 Legends
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: Magna Books 1994
KEYWORDS: Doug Nye racing motorsport history legends formula one 1 cars race
Channel Dash: The Drama of Twenty-four Hours of War
Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (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: Evan Brothers Ltd 1958
KEYWORDS: Terence Robertson war world war two 2 ww2 history naval navy warfare
The Innovators
Super 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 2014
KEYWORDS: Walter Isaacson digital revolution history innovation technology collaboration inventors age