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$200.00
2a18q/3

The Ground of the Ancestors: A History of Goroka: Part I: Foundations


MUNSTER, PETER M.

Lg quarto, light gray staple bound light card covers, black lettering to front cover, vii + 66pp, illus/photos, includes separate staple bound typed extract from The Land That Time Forgot: Adventures and Discoveries in New Guinea by Michael Leahy & Maurice Crair, VG (moderate creasing & discolouration to covers & page edges with moderate tanning & foxing, considerable foxing & discolouration to separate extract)

PUBLISHER: Peter M. Munster 1973

KEYWORDS: Goroka ethnology anthropology history culture customs Peter M. Munster

$45.00
2a18q/12

The Beginning of the Rainbow


JONES (HINGSTON), VERNA

DATED & SIGNED, super octavo, illus light card covers, blue lettering to front cover, 70pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & scuffing to spine, light foxing & soiling to covers & edges, light tanning & foxing to internal sides of covers)

PUBLISHER: Not Stated (c.1982?)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand settlers pioneers family history genealogy Hingston

$120.00
2a18q/14

Modern Cookery, For Private Families, Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in Which Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been ass Much as Possible Applied and Explained


ACTON, ELIZA

Sm octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine, blind stamp rule & decoration to boards, xlvii + 643pp + 24pp to rear, illus, scruffy (spine flapping loose but still hanging on, heavy bruising & scuffing to extrems with some surface loss, heavy staining to spine & boards, v heavy tanning to page edges, some prelims potentially missing, moderate foxing throughout, heavy cracking to gutters sporadically throughhoutprev. owner's name in ink to dedication page)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts 1860

KEYWORDS: cookbooks cooking cookery food recipes culinary house keeping history

$60.00
2a18q/20

The Letters of F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt (3 Vol Set)


LEICHHARDT, F. W. LUDWIG & AUROUSSEAU, M. (Collected & Newly Trans)

3 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt ship motif & blue rule to front boards, frontispiece to vol 1 only, mixed pagination, folding map to vol 2, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to extrems & board edges, light fading to spine of vol 2, light tanning & occasional folding to page edges/corners) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & staining to spines & edges, varying degrees of loss to spine- archival tape repairs to vol 2 spine)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt / Cambridge University Press 1968

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society first editions letters correspondence collection F W Ludwig Leichhardt history exploration Australia nautical maritime

$66.00
2a18q/21

Missions to the Niger (4 Vol Set)


BOVILL, E. W. (Ed)

4 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt ship motif & blind rule to front boards, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus, foldin gmap to rear pocket of vol 4, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to board extrems/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & staining to spines & edges with some minor foxing, light scuffing & loss to spines of vols 1 & 4)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt / Cambridge University Press 1964-66

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history journals Friedrich Hornemann Alexander Gordon Laing letters literature collection the Bornu Mission exploration voyages first editions

$55.00
2a18r/1

Endless Sea: Stories Told Through the Taonga of the New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa


WALSH, FRANCES (Text) & USSHER, JANE (Photo)

Quarto, orange cloth boards, white lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 263pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in 3/4 dust jacket/band, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, adhesive residue to rear)

PUBLISHER: Massey University Press 2020

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical artefacts history marine museum anecdotes stories tales

$220.00
2a18r/17

Wise's Auckland Provincial Directory 1953-54


N/A [WISE'S]

Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & boards, place name tabs to page edges, printed eps, xx + 1216pp, illus/adverts, VG- (heavy scuffing & bruising to extrems, moderate cracking to front hinge, moderate soiling & staining to boards, heavy tanning to page edges & eps with some minor foxing to eps also, occasional closed tearing to pages, moderate creasing & foxing to prelims & terminals, heavy creasing page tabs)

PUBLISHER: H. Wise & Co 1953-54

KEYWORDS: New Zealand directories Auckland provincial history 50s fifties WISES

$100.00
2a18r/21

Cassell's Picturesque Australasia: Vol IV


MORRIS, E. E. (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY (PART OF 4 VOL SET), THIS VOL FEATURES N.Z., imperial octavo, half leather bound red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule with raised bands to spine, gilt lettering & rule/tooling to front board, aeg, frontispiece, viii + 308pp + unpaginated maps to rear, illus, VG (moderate scuffing to leatherwork to spine & board corners, light scuffing & soiling to boards, light foxing to eps & prelims/terminals plus pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1889

KEYWORDS: Australia New Zealand Australasia maps history culture

$40.00
2a18r/23

Early Soviet Jet Fighters: The 1940s and Early 1950s


GORDON, YEFIM & KOMISSAROV, DMITRIY and SERGEY (Trans)

Quarto, white lettering to spine, illus glossy light card covers, 143pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Midland Publishing 2002

KEYWORDS: aviation fighter jets military Soviet Russia Russian history engineering design war planes

$180.00
2a18r/24

Olaus Magnus: Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus Romae 1555 (Description of the Northern Peoples Rome 1555) (3 Vol Set


MAGNUS, OLAUS & FISHER, PETER (Trans) & HIGGENS, HUMPHREY (Trans) & FOOTE, PETER (Ed) & GRANLUND, JOHN (Annotation & Commentary)

3 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt ship motif & blind rule to front boards, illus, mixed pagination, Near FINE (some sl loose cotton to boards) in d/w, VG (light to moderate chafing & soiling, light creasing & chipping)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1996-98

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society first editions history Olaus Magnus literature northern people 16th sixteenth century

$475.00
2a18r/25

The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and Their Inhabitants (2 Vol Set)


BARBOSA, DUARTE & DAMES, MANSEL LONGWORTH (Trans)

2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, frontispiece to vol 2 only, vol 1- lxxxv + 238pp + xxxix bibliography to rear, vol 2- xxxi + 286pp + xlii bibliography to rear, folding map to rear pocket of vol 1, illus/folding maps, VG+ (light scuffing and/or bruising to extrems, sl discolouration to spines & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1918-21

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society exploration Indian ocean geography history 16th sixteenth century ethnography travel first editions

$50.00
2a18r/26

The War of Quito; and Inca Documents


DE LEON, PEDRO DE CIEZA & MARKHAM, Sir CLEMENT R. (Trans & Ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blie buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled/rough cut edges- some still uncut, xii + 212pp + xxxvi bibliography to rear, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, binder's sm adhesive label to rear pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1913

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society war conflict history Quito Incas Incans Inca exploration voyages Pedro de Cieza de Leon

$45.00
2a18r/27

The Red Sea and Adjacent Countries at the Close of the Seventeenth Century


PITTS, JOSEPH & DANIEL, WILLIAM & PONCET, CHARLES JACQUES & FOSTER, Sir WILLIAM (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind rule to front board, deckled/roughcut page edges- some still uncut, folding frontispiece, xl + 192pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page egdes & eps, moderate creasing & chipping to edges of frontispiecesl foxing to frontis & full title page)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1949

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society exploration travel history voyages Joseph Pitts William Daniel Charles Jacques Poncet 17th seventeenth century red sea geography

$245.00
2a18r/28

The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe Gonzalez in the Ship of the Line San Lorenzo, With the Frigate Santa Rosalia in Company Easter Island in 1770-1


GONZALEZ, Capt. DON FELIPE & ROGGEVEENS, JACOB & CORNEY, BOLTON GLANVILL (Transcribed, Trans & Ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to front board, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, frontispiece, lxxvii + 176pp + 40pp bibliography to rear, folding maps to rear pocket, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, sl cracking to gutter of pgs 48-49)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1908

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society exploration voayges history geography Easter Island 18th eighteenth century Line San Lorenzo Frigate Santa Rosalia

$75.00
2a18r/29

Some Records of Ethiopia 1593-1646; Being Extracts From 'The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia' by Manoel de Almeida; Together With Bahrey's 'History of the Galla'


DE ALMEIDA, MANOEL & BECKINGHAM, C. F. (Trans) & HUNTINGFORD, G. W. B. (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind rule to front board, deckled page edges- some still uncut, xcviii + 267pp, folding maps throughout, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & surface loss to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1954

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society geography exploration history Ethiopia Africa African records

$50.00
2a18r/30

The Guanches of Tenerife: The Holy Image of Our Lady of Candelaria and the Spanish Conquest and Settlement


DE ESPINOSA, Friar ALONSO & MARKHAM, Sir CLEMENTS (Trans, Ed, Notes & Intro)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to front board, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, xxvi + 221pp, folding maps, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, sl chafing & soiling to rear board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1907

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society history geography Tenerife Spanish conquest Spain exploration travel

$45.00
2a18r/31

Francis Mortfort: His Book; Being his Travels Through France and Italy 1658-1659


MORTFORT, FRANCIS & LETTS, MALCOLM (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, folding frontispiece, xxxiv + 216pp, folding maps, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning to page edges & eps, sl creasing to frontis)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1925

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society exploration travel literature Francis Mortfort France Italy 17th seventeenth century history geography

$175.00
2a18r/32

Early Spanish Voyages to the Strait of Magellan


MARKHAM, Sir CLEMENTS (Trans, Ed, Preface, Intro & Notes)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, xii + 288pp, folding maps, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1911

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society history geography exploration travel Spanish voyages Strait of Magellan

$145.00
2a18r/33

The East and West Indian Mirror, Being an Account of Joris Van Speilbergen's Voyage Round the World (1614-1617)


VAN SPEILBERGEN, JORIS & DE VILLIERS, J. A. J. (Trans, Notes & Intro)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to front board, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, lxi + 272pp, folding maps, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light fading to spine, light soiling & staining to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1906

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society history geography exploration travel east west Indian mirror voyages Joris Van Speilbergen

$45.00
2a18r/34

Further English Voyages to Spanish America 1583-1594: Documents From the Archives of the Indies at Seville Illustrating English Voyages to the Caribbean, the Soanish Main, Florida, and Virginia


WRIGHT, IRENE A. (Trans & Ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp rule to front board, deckled/rough cut page edges- some still uncut, xciii + 314pp, folding maps, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1951

KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society history geography exploration travel English voyages Spanish America

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