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$40.00
2f30b/14

Music Publishing and Patronage: C F Peters 1800 to the Holocaust


LAWFORD-HINRICHSEN, IRENE & MENUHIN, YEHUDI (Fore)

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 332pp, VG+ (spine sl cocked, light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Edition Press 2000

KEYWORDS: C F Peters music publishers history publishing

$65.00
2f30b/21

Fairy Tales and Folk-Lore of New Zealand and the South Seas


TREGEAR, E.

Sm octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to front board, 165pp, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & board edges, moderate soiling to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, moderate tanning to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate pencil scribbling throughout, light cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Lyon & Blair 1891

KEYWORDS: New Zealand children's literature fairy tales folklore history

$40.00
2f30b/24

The Beachcombers; or, Slave-Trading Under the Union Jack


BISHOP, GILBERT

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind decoration to spine & boards, 310pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, ligth soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page with som eminor water satining, presentation plate to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals with light foxing to pages throughout, light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co 1911

KEYWORDS: slaves slave trading history British slavery

$95.00
2f30b/25

Vivisection in Historical Perspective


RUPKE, NICOLAAS A. (Ed)

Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 373pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Croom Helm 1987

KEYWORDS: vivisection animals surgery history philosophy anaimal experimentation

$45.00
2f30b/28

On Record: Being the Reminiscences of Isaac Coates 1840-1932


COATES, ISAAC

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 163pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning to spine, ligth soiling & foxing/tanning to covers)

PUBLISHER: Paul's Book Arcade 1962

KEYWORDS: New Zealand early settlers history Isaac Coates

$15.00
xxcgg187262

Anzac: A Retrospect


MALTHUS, CECIL

LACKS D/W; BOARDS STAINED; octavo 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1965

KEYWORDS: cecil malthus new zealand anzac great first world war one ww1 wwi military history memoir

$12.50
xxchb187268

Everybody's Story of New Zealand


REED, A.H.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-, torn at base of spine) ; 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Reed 1950

KEYWORDS: a.h. reed new zealand history general popular

$3750.00
os1/65

New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive


BARRAUD, C. D. (Illus) & TRAVERS, W. T. L. (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, elephant folio, half leather bound terracotta buckram boards, decorative gilt lettering & tooling to front board, beautiful hand decorated gift/presentation plate, frontispiece, 40pp, 31 chromo- & plain lithographs with 31 woodcuts- all seemingly present, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & extrems with some surface loss & soiling/staining, moderate scuffing & soiling to boards, minor wrinkling to buckram on boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light soiling & wrinkling to eps with minor foxing, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims, heavy crack to gutter of dedication page, moderate closed tearing to some page & plate edges, light sporadic soiling & tanning/foxing to pages throughout) in protective heavy boarded folder, leather spine & clasps, VG- (heavy tanning & foxing with moderate scuffing & chafing)

PUBLISHER: Samson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 1877

KEYWORDS: New Zealand first editions illustrated townships lakes history historical drawings illustrations

$55.00
2f30b/40

Swift and Sure: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals and Army Signalling in New Zealand


BARBER, LAURIE & LORD, CLIFF

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 296pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light occasional cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, sl fading)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Signals Incorporated 1996

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history royal corps of signals army signalling communications

$95.00
2f30b/48

Otago Early Photographs (Third Series From the Hardwicke Knight Collection)


KNIGHT, HARDWICKE

SIGNED & NUMBERED, oblong quarto, illus light card covers, black spiral bound, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1987

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hardwicke Knight art photos photography collection Otago Dunedin history historical signed Port Chalmers

$65.00
2f30b/49

People and Buildings in Early Photographs of Dunedin (Fourth Series from the Hardwicke Knight Collection)


KNIGHT, HARDWICKE

Oblong quarto, illus light card covers, red spiral bound, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing & curling/scuffing to cover edges, light soiling & foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1992

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hardwicke Knight art photos photography collection Otago Dunedin history historical buildings

$600.00
1a5b/2

Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper: With an Ample Enumeration of the Most Renowned Masters and Their Works.


EVELYN, JOHN

SECOND EDITION, ONLY ONE PLATE PRESENT, OWNERSHIP OF A DESCENDANT OF THE AUTHOR! Sm octavo, brown full leather boards, gilt lettering to title plate on spine with gilt rule & raised bands, gilt rule to boards, red speckling to page edges, xxxvi + 140pp, VG- (heavy scuffing & surface loss to spine & board edges, moderate scuffing & bruising to boards, 4cm crack to lower front hinge, moderate tanning to page edges, heavy cracking to some gutters throughout, ex-libris plate & prev. seller's sm label to front pastedown, heavy tanning & light foxing to edges of eps & prelims/terminals, age appropriate discolouration to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: J. Payne 1755

KEYWORDS: chalcography craft hobbies John Evelyn copper brass engraving masters history

$350.00
1a5b/3

Bridging: The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War, 1914-19


N/A

ALL MAPS & PLATES PRESENT, super octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 87pp, maps & plates/illus, VG (moderate fading to spine & board edges with some light soiling, light tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps, minor soiling & creasing to folding maps & illus/plates)

PUBLISHER: W. & J. Mackay & Co 1921

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war 1 one i the Great War Royal Engineers bridges construction building

$22.50
xxchb187275

Yellow River, Mules and Mountains: A New Zealand Nurse in China 1947-1950


EASTON-THOMPSON, ISOBEL

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: Puriri Press 2002

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history nurses nursing Isobel Easton-Thompson China medical staff CORSO autobiography memoir

$15.00
xxchg187290

Russia's War


OVERY, RICHARD

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: Penguin Books 1998

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii Russia Russian

$35.00
xxcic187293

The Brotherhood: Inside the Secret World of the Freemasons


DEDOPULOS, TIM

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: Viking / Penguin 2006

KEYWORDS: secret societies freemasons freemasonry masonic history

$17.50
xxcic187294

Roaring Boys: Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England


COOK, JUDITH & DORAN, GREGORY (Fore)

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG+) some adhesion to pages; 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: Sutton Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: history theatre theater playwrights Elizabethan Jacobean period England English actors

$16.50
xxcid187311

After the Flood: What the Dambusters Did Next


NICHOL, JOHN

Super 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: William Collins 2015

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii dambusters 617 squadron Lancaster bombers war heroes

$20.00
xxcie187321

Voicing Scotland: Folk, Culture, Nation


WEST, GARY

Super 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: Luath Press Ltd 2013

KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish history culture music tradition traditional

$25.00
xxcie187326

The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars


FREISENBRUCH, ANNELISE

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 2010

KEYWORDS: ancient Rome Roman history women antiquity

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