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Music Publishing and Patronage: C F Peters 1800 to the Holocaust
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
Fairy Tales and Folk-Lore of New Zealand and the South Seas
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
The Beachcombers; or, Slave-Trading Under the Union Jack
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
Vivisection in Historical Perspective
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
On Record: Being the Reminiscences of Isaac Coates 1840-1932
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
Anzac: A Retrospect
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
Everybody's Story of New Zealand
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
New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive
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
Swift and Sure: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals and Army Signalling in New Zealand
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
Otago Early Photographs (Third Series From the Hardwicke Knight Collection)
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
People and Buildings in Early Photographs of Dunedin (Fourth Series from the Hardwicke Knight Collection)
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
Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper: With an Ample Enumeration of the Most Renowned Masters and Their Works.
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
Bridging: The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War, 1914-19
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
Yellow River, Mules and Mountains: A New Zealand Nurse in China 1947-1950
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
Russia's War
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
The Brotherhood: Inside the Secret World of the Freemasons
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
Roaring Boys: Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
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
After the Flood: What the Dambusters Did Next
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
Voicing Scotland: Folk, Culture, Nation
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
The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars
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