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$45.00
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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

$55.00
ak2/2/234

The Opium Clippers


LUBBOCK, BASIL

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

$25.00
ak2/3/257

The Beauty of Your House: The Nelson Catholic Parish 1844-1994


HARRIS, ANTHONY

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

$60.00
ak2/4/246

Tahiti 1834-1984: 150 ans de vie chretienne en Eglise


HODEE, PAUL

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

$40.00
ak2/4/248

Son of Spain: Diego Velazquez Volume 1


JAMES, ANTOINETTE

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

$40.00
ak2/4/254

Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion: World War II


RHODES, ANTHONY; MARGOLIN, VICTOR (ed.) & LEWINE, HARRIS (art director)

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

$40.00
ak2/4/355

The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Conexts and Perspectives


PATTERSON, BRAD (ed.)

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

$17.50
xxphi157104

Street Names Tell History of Alice Springs / The Story of Centralian Advocate: Alice Springs and Central Australia's first Newspaper


PETRICK, JOSE & WATT, ROBERT

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

$10.00
xxphi157105

Roughtail: The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and other stories told by the Kukatja


GREENE, GRACIE & TRAMACCHI, JOE & GILL, LUCILLE

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

$9.00
xxphb157109

Introducing Shakespeare: Third Edition: Revised and Expanded


HARRISON, G.B.

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

$37.50
xxphb157118

The Racing Coopers


OWEN, ARTHUR

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

$13.50
xxphf157139

Formula 1 Legends


NYE, DOUG

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

$12.50
xxpgh157149

Channel Dash: The Drama of Twenty-four Hours of War


ROBERTSON, TERENCE

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

$20.00
xxpgi157155

The Innovators


ISAACSON, WALTER

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

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