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$24.50
xxphj194112

Nusantara: A History of Indonesia


VLEKKE, BERNARD H M

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Les Editions A Manteau S A 1961

KEYWORDS: Indonesia history culture geography

$16.50
xxphj194113

Mosley


JONES, NIGEL

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: Haus Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: Oswald Mosley politics biographies memoir history

$30.00
xxpjf194138

Golden Letters: Writing Traditions of Indonesia / Surat Emas: Budaya Tulis di Indonesia


GALLOP, ANNABEL TEH & ARPS, BERNARD

GLUE TO SPINE COMING LOOSE; PARALLEL ENGLISH-INDONESIAN TEXT (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: The British Library 1991

KEYWORDS: indonesia indonesian southeast asia asian south east pacific writing written culture language script history surat emas ephemera exhibition catalog catalogue royal letters correspondence

$20.00
xxpjf194139

Dunedin's Heritage: A report prepared in the City Planning Department, Dunedin City Corporation


COWEN, GEOFF & BILSON, IAN (photos) & LEMON, DAPHNE (photos)

Oblong 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: K. Nairn, Dunedin City Planning Officer 1977

KEYWORDS: dunedin heritage architecture architectural history building buildings protection geoff cowen k nairn otepoti otago new zealand culture cityscape

$30.00
xxpjf194145

The Life and Works of Robert Burns: Volume 1


BURNS, ROBERT & CHAMBERS, ROBERT (ed.) & WALLACE, WILLIAM (revised by)

THIS VOL. ONLY; 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: W & R Chambers Ltd. 1896

KEYWORDS: robert burns chambers william wallace biography literature scotland scottish robbie literary history culture

$39.50
xxpjf194147

Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life


PITE, RALPH & [HARDY, THOMAS]

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: thomas hardy england english britain british literature writer biography victorian literary ralph pite history culture

$135.00
1s23a/1

Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia


BENNETT, JAMES

FIRST EDITION, sm folio, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 303pp, illus/photos, VG (minor bruising to extrems, v sl foxing to page edges, some sl adhesion to pages- heavy tearing to tops of terminal pages, light to moderate damp staining/foxing to prelims & terminals) in mylar jacket with gilt lettering to front, VG+ (light creasing to edges, minor chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Art Gallery of South Australia 2005

KEYWORDS: art culture Islam Islamic exhibitions history Southeast Asia first editions

$40.00
1s23a/12

Washingtoniana Photographs: Collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress


COLLINS, KATHLEEN

Tidy ex-library- possibly unread, quarto, grey faux leather boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & boards, black Capitol Hill illus to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xxiv + 310pp, illus/photos, VG (minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to spine & boards, lg scuff & surface loss to rear ep)

PUBLISHER: Library of Congress 1989

KEYWORDS: library of congress prints photography photos Washington history historical collections

$40.00
1s23a/13

Colonial Manila: The Context of Hispanic Urbanism and Process of Morphogenesis


REED, ROBERT R

Tidy ex-library, imperial octavo, green & cream light card covers, black lettering to spine, xiv + 129pp, illus, VG (minimal library markings, moderate scuffing & chipping to spine & cover edges, light tanning & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl cracking to base of front gutters)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1978

KEYWORDS: Philippines Manila colonialism history settlements urban development Hispanic

$225.00
1s23a/16

Shipping Wonders of the World (4 Vol Set)


WINCHESTER, CLARENCE (Ed)

4 VOL DELUXE SET, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, blind stamp illus & rule to front boards, frontispieces to vols 1, 3 & 4, 1764pp total, illus, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning to spines, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedowns of all vols, varying degrees of cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: The Waverley Book Company N/D

KEYWORDS: nautical shipping maritime history ships

$120.00
1s23a/22

Discoveries and Explorations in the Century


ROBERTS, CHARLES G D

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xvi + 529pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing to boards, sl discolouration to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional markings to margins)

PUBLISHER: W & R Chambers 1906

KEYWORDS: geography history exploration travel discoveries

$90.00
1s23a/23

Colonel Gordon in Central Africa 1874-1879


HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK (Ed)

FOLDING MAP AT REAR, octavo, greem buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 456pp, VG- (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light discolouration to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, ffe missing, ex-libris ink stamp to verso of frotnispiece, light foxing to prelims & terminals, illus/plate to pg 160-161 detached & mostly missing- only sm remnant remains & is very brittle, sm section of page 377-380 torn & partially missing)

PUBLISHER: Thos de la Rue & Co 1884

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Colonel Gordon Central Africa adventure exploration history customs

$100.00
1t1a/15

Lives of the Engineers (3 Vol Set)


SMILES, SAMUEL & ROLT, L T C (New Intro)

3 VOL SET, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, vol 1- xvi + 484pp, vol 2- xiv + 502pp, vol 3- xx + 512pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & soiling to spines)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles Reprints 1968

KEYWORDS: history civil engineering Samuel Smiles Great Britain British industrialisation

$60.00
1t4d/1

Ariel - The Postwar Models


BACON, ROY

Square octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 191pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing to front board, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & tanning to spine & edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Niton Publishing 2000

KEYWORDS: motor bikes motorcycles Ariel history design evolution postwar

$125.00
1t4d/2

Ariel: The Complete Story


WALKER, MICK

Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 208pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sm staining to terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading & soiling to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Crowood Press 2003

KEYWORDS: motor bikes motorcycles Ariel history design evolution

$48.50
1t4d/3

The Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio


SIMON, JOE & KIRBY, JACK & EVANIER, MARK (Selected & Ed) & SIMON, JIM (Afterword)

Heavy quarto, illus heavy boards, black & cream lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 375pp + notes to rear, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Ābrams ComicArts 2014

KEYWORDS: art cartoons Simon and Kirby Studio comic books history

$55.00
1t4d/6

Antiques in the Antipodes: The Story of a Shop


SANDERS, YVONNE & CHRISP, TESSA (Photography)

Quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 304pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Yvonne Sanders Antiques 2015

KEYWORDS: antique stores shops history Yvonne Sanders Antiques New Zealand businesses

$120.00
1t4d/11

The Fruits of Our Labours: Chinese Fruit Shops in New Zealand (2 Vol Set)


LAM, RUTH & LOWE, BEVERLY & WONG, HELEN & WONG, MICHAEL & KING, CAROLYN

2 VOL SET, quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, red & black lettering to spines, 904pp total, illus/photos, VG+ (sl soiling to front covers, moderate scuffing and soiling to lower spine extrem of vol 1)

PUBLISHER: Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust 2018

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Chinese communities settlers pioneers fruit shops business trade

$40.00
1t4d/16

All the Orations of Demosthenes, Pronounced to Excite the Athenians Against Philip, King of Macedon (Volume I)


LELAND, THOMAS (trans)

THIS VOL. ONLY; Third edition, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & decorative rule to spine, xlviii + 349pp, VG- (heavy soiling to boards, moderate cracking to spine, hinges & gutters, with heavy surface loss to spine, prev. owners' names in ink to eps, light soiling & discolouration to pages, intermiitent light pencil annotations throughout)

PUBLISHER: T. Longman 1777

KEYWORDS: ancient greek athens history classical studies literature oration oratory thomas leland demosthenes

$245.00
1t4d/17

Capitain Jacobsen's Reise an der Nordwestkuste Amerikas 1881-1883; zum Zwecke ethnologischer Sammlungen und Erkundigungen nebst Beschreibung personlicher Erlebnisse fur den deutschen Leserkreis bearbeitet


WOLDT, A.

TEXT IN GERMAN, Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt & black ink stamped decorative rule to spine & front board, marble page edges, patterned eps, vi + 431pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (light staining, rubbing & chipping to boards & spine, light cracking to gutters - boards v. slightly shaky, light tanning/discolouration to page edges, prev. owner's name & bookseller's label to verso fep)

PUBLISHER: Verlag von Max Spohr 1884

KEYWORDS: text in german travel exploration expeditions voyages captain jacobsen alaskan northwest americans united states history indigenous natives anthropology

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