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$80.00
2i37b/39

Poenamo Revisited


A Facsimile of the 1898 Edition

CAMPBELL, Sir JOHN LOGAN & STONE, R. C. J. (Essay & Notes)

Octavo, blue marbled boards with blue faux leather spine, gilt lettering to spine, printed eps, 315pp + 359pp facsimile of original Poenamo text, title band affixed to boards, illus, Near FINE (v sl adhesion to terminals)

PUBLISHER: Godwit/Random House 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand centenary Sir John Logan Campbell Poenamo literature pioneers history

$75.00
2i37b/41

Secret History: The Story of Cryptology


BAUER, CRAIG P.

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xxv + 594pp, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: CRC Press 2013

KEYWORDS: data encryption computer science security cryptography history ciphers

$50.00
2i41a/1

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome


LANDELS, JOHN G.

Super octavo, illus light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, xii + 296pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. bookseller's price label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 1999

KEYWORDS: music history Greece Greek Rome Roman entertainment illustrated

$125.00
2i41a/5

The Thoroughbred Among Banks in New Zealand 1872-2000 (3 Vol Set)


HAWKE, GARY & HOLMES, Sir FRANK

3 VOLUME SET, quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt pattern to front boards, xii + 225-266pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to some extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spines, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: The National Bank of New Zealand 1997-2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand banking banks history finance economics

$85.00
2i41a/9

The Taieri Plain: Tales of the Years That Are Gone


SHAW, MARGARET S. & FARRANT, EDGAR D.

SIGNED BY AUTHORS, FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, greencloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 238pp, illus/plates, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light scuffing & chafing to spine & boards, spine cocked, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Otago Centennial Historical Publications 1949

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago regional history illustrated Taieri signed

$40.00
2i41a/17

The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle


LOWERY, MALINDA MAYNOR

Super octavo, cream cloth boards, blue lettering to spine, xix + 304pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: University of North Carolina Press 2018

KEYWORDS: Lumbee Indians US America native American tribes Indian history North Carolina

$40.00
2i41a/23

Franz Schubert: A Biography


McKAY, ELIZABETH NORMAN

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 362pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl foxing to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: Schubert classical composers music biography memoir history

$100.00
2i41a/24

Jane's World Railways 1969-70 (Twelfth Edition)


SAMPSON, HENRY (Ed)

Lg quarto, blue cloth boards, white lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, 57pp ads + vii + 733pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, sl staining/discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light read staining to lower page edges of eps) in d/w, VG (moderate staining & discolouration to edges, light creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low Marston & Co 1969

KEYWORDS: Jane's railways history rail transport trains operation equipment twelfth 12th edition engineering mechanical mechanics engines illustrated

$95.00
2i41a/31

The Distinguished History of 3rd Field Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery 1940-1990


RAYWARD, CHRISTINE

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#99/200) quarto, bllack heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 90pp, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: 3rd Field Regiment 1990

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 3rd third field regiment royal artillery

$65.00
2i41a/34

Labour of Love: Childbirth at Dunedin Hospital 1862-1972


WASSNER, ADELHEID

SIGNED & DATED, lg quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 294pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & corners, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Adelhaid Wassner 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Dunedin hospital maternity children child birth childbirth obstetrics

$49.50
2i41a/35

Rails to Roxburgh: The Story of a Provincial Railway


COWAN, W. J.

Lg quarto, illus glossy card covers with french flaps, black lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 256pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising/creasing to edges/extrems, 1cm scuff to lower spine edge, light chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Molyneux Press 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand rail Otago Roxburgh transport history trains

$40.00
2i41a/37

June Fourth: The Tiananman Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989


BROWN, JEREMY

Super octavo, illus light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, xxvi + 266pp, VG+ (light curling/creasing to spine & covers)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2021

KEYWORDS: China Chinese massacre Tiananmen Square protests violence oppression modern history authoritarian policy Beijing

$50.00
2i41a/38

Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism


BROWN, JEREMY & JOHNSON, MATTHEW D. (Eds)

Super octavo, red buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, vi + 468pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chippping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Mao Maoism politics socialism socialist culture social aspects discontent communism customs

$42.50
2i41a/41

Tributary Empires in Global History


BANG, PETER FIBIGER & BAYLY, C. A. (Eds)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 294pp, VG+ (light scuffing to edges, light creasing to spine)

PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2011

KEYWORDS: sociology anthropology pre-colonial history empires

$50.00
2i41a/43

Chuan Zheng School


YAN, SHEN

Super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, v + 363pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: China Intercontinental Press 2009

KEYWORDS: China Chinese education teaching Chuan Zheng school history

$45.00
2i41a/47

Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism


HAROOTUNIAN, H. D.

LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xii + 494pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to edges & extrems, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1988

KEYWORDS: Tokugawa nativism Japan Japanese history kokugaku ideology philosophy 18th eighteenth century

$45.00
2i41a/53

China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past


COHEN, PAUL A.

Super octavo, illus light cardcovers, black & white lettering to spine, xii + 226pp, Near FINE (sl curling to covers)

PUBLISHER: RoutledgeCurzon 2003

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history culture historiography nationalism religion

$100.00
2i41a/55

From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China


ELMAN, BENJAMIN A.

Super octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxv + 368pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep, sl cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some sl loss, moderate fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press 1984

KEYWORDS: philosophy philology Chinese China late imperial history lower Yangtze region

$60.00
2i41a/56

Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (A.D. 1019-1086)


JI, XIAO-BIN

Super octavo, green heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xi + 253pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems & board edges, prev. bookseller's label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, 7cm closed tear to base of front cover, light fading to spine, prev. seller's price label to rear)

PUBLISHER: The Chinese University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: China Chinese politics northern Song dynasty Sima Guang biography history ancient

$95.00
2i41a/59

Revolution as Restoration: Guocui xuebao and China's Path to Modernity, 1905-1911


HON, TZE-KI

LACKS D/W, super octavo, pink heavy boards, black lettering to spine & boards, 135pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, light chafing to boards, ffep completely missing)

PUBLISHER: Brill/Leiden 2013

KEYWORDS: China Chinese revolution restoration history philosophy Guocui xuebao

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