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$18.50
xxzdL172255

Costumes of Everyday Life: An Illustrated History of Working Clothes From 900-1910


LISTER, MARGOT

Ex-library, quarto 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: Plays Inc 1972

KEYWORDS: costumes clothing textiles history historical occupations work jobs

$15.00
xxzdL172257

Southland Girls High School 100 Years 1879-1979


N/A

Oblong quarto 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: Craig Printing Co (Printer) 1979

KEYWORDS: New Zealand academic history Southland Girls High School centennial centenary schools

$38.50
xxzdL172260

Battleships of World War I


PRESTON, ANTONY

Square super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); 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: Arms and Armour Press 1972

KEYWORDS: military history battleships naval warfare the great war ww1 first 1st world war one i 1

$40.00
1i36a/8

The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives


BELLWOOD, PETER (Ed) & FOX, JAMES J (Ed) & TRYON, DARRELL (Ed)

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white & orange lettering to spine, viii + 359pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing & creasing to spine & covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to pages throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Dept. of Anthropology, Australian National University 1995

KEYWORDS: anthropology archaeology archeology ancient history antiquity Asia pacific customs culture

$40.00
1i36a/10

Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia


MRAZEK, RUDOLF

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, x + 526pp, illus/photos, VG (light curling to cover edges, light soiling to page edges, moderate cracking & staining to front gutters- some prelim pages partially detached)

PUBLISHER: Southeast Asia Program 1994

KEYWORDS: Indonesia politics political history

$165.00
1i36a/11

The Late Colonial State in Indonesia : Political and Economic Foundations of the Netherlands Indies 1880-1942


CRIPP, ROBERT (Ed)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, vi + 295pp, illus/maps, VG+ (light curling to cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light fading to spine & cover edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: KITLV Press 1994

KEYWORDS: Indonesia late colonialism history historical politics economics Dutch Indies

$40.00
1i36a/12

Regents, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Indonesian Voices of Colonial Days: Selected Historical Readings 1899-1949


WILSON, GRETA O (Trans, Ed & Annotated)

Octavo, coloured light card covers, black lettering to spine, xx + 199pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: University Press of Hawaii 1978

KEYWORDS: Indonesia history essays addresses lectures 20th twentieth century colonial

$55.00
1i36a/13

Asian Trade and European Influence in the Indonesian Archipelago Between 1500 and About 1630


MEILINK-ROELEFSZ, M A P

Super octavo, green light card covers with french flaps, green lettering to spine & front cover, viii + 471pp, VG- (moderate screasing & scuffing to spine & cover edges, moderate tanning & foxing to spine & covers, sm ink numbers/letterign to rear cover, light tanning & moderate foxing & soiling to page edges, numerous ink stamps & foxing to ffep with top 1.5cm loss to top edges, prev. owner's name in ink to title page, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Martinus Nijhoff 1962

KEYWORDS: Asia Asian trade business history historical Indonesia Indonesian archipelago sociology

$40.00
1i36a/14

The Politics of Colonial Exploitation: Java, the Dutch, and the Cultivation System


FASSEUR, CORNELIS & ELSON, R E (Trans & Ed) & KRAAL, ARY (Trans)

Imperial octavo, white light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 266pp, VG+ (light wrinkling & soiling to cover edges, light soiling to spine/covers & page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Southeast Asian Program 1994

KEYWORDS: history politics political colonialism colonial exploitation Indonesia Java Dutch

$40.00
1i36a/15

Strange Parallels Volume 1: Integration of the Mainland Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800-1830


LIEBERMAN, VICTOR

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, illus light card covers, blue lettering to spine & covers, xxiii + 484pp, illus/maps, VG+ (light curling to cover edges, sl wrinkling to spine, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2010

KEYWORDS: southeast asia historiography history

$40.00
1i36a/18

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America


HAMALAINEN, PEKKA

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 571pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & fading to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chafing)

PUBLISHER: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2022

KEYWORDS: North America indigenous indians native Americans history

$50.00
1i36a/20

Frontier Society: A Social Analysis of the History of Surinam


VAN LIER, R A J

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, vi + 441pp, VG+ (sl fading to spine, light foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's mane in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Martinus Nijhoff 1971

KEYWORDS: Surinam history slave settlers colonies government politics political

$85.00
1i36a/25

Lake Ellesmere to Te Pirita: The Land and its People


PENNEY, SARAH E W & GABARA, KIM (Illus) & TROTTER, MICHAEL M (Chapter) & McCASKILL, Dr L W (Chapter)

Quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 262pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing/bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light to moderate soiling & foxing to covers, light tanning to spine)

PUBLISHER: Penny Ash Publications 1979

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury Lake Ellesmere

$85.00
1i36a/28

New Zealand Today A Priceless Gem in the Imperial Crown


RUSSELL, G WARREN

FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 332pp, illus/photos, VG- (light bruising & heavy soiling/staining to spine & boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light foxing & soiling to eps, heavy cracking to rear gutter, single page at terminals detached but present, light folding to top corners of pages 241-248)

PUBLISHER: G W Russell 1919

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history internal affairs

$40.00
1i36a/33

A History of Otago


OLSSEN, ERIK

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO JUDITH & MICHAEL BASSETT (FELLOW HISTORIANS), imperial octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 270pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to board edges, sl bruising & soiling to rear board, sl foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, occasional annotation in ink) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges- tidy archival tape repairs to internal sides, light fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: John McIndoe 1984

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history Otago Erik Olssen

$55.00
1i36a/36

The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1911 (Twentieth Year of Issue)


WARD, The Right Hon Sir J G & FRASER, M

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine & front board, patterned eps, 2x sm coloured maps to prelims, viii + 1005pp, folding map, VG (moderate to heavy soiling/surface loss to boards, light bruising to extrems, light tanning to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate & prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, light cracking to gutters, inscription in ink to rear eps, minor water staining/wrinkling to lower page corners of prelims)

PUBLISHER: John Mackay, Gov't Printer 1911

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history 1911 yearbooks official land statistics

$45.00
1i36a/38

The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1945 (Fifty-Third Issue)


BUTCHER, J W (Preface)

Super octavo, brown heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, viii + 776pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (minor scuffing & bruising to spine & board corners, sl scuffing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, smatterings of foxing to some gutters throughout, no damage to folding map)

PUBLISHER: E V Paul, Gov't Printer 1945

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history official yearbooks 1945 land statistics

$40.00
1i36a/39

The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1916 (Twenty-Fifth Year of Issue)


FRASER, MALCOLM

Octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xii + 710pp, sm coloured maps to prelims, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, moderate chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris label to ffep, prev. ownership ink stamps & foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Marcus F Marks, Gov't Printer 1916

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history official yearbooks 1916 land statistics

$40.00
1i36a/44

Best Chess Games 1970-80


SPEELMAN, JON

Octavo, illus light card covers, yellow lettering to spine- faded, viii + 328pp, illus, VG (light fading to spine, light scuffing to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light cracking to front gutters- some prelims loosened)

PUBLISHER: Unwin Paperbacks 1983

KEYWORDS: games hobbies chess tactics strategy history

$145.00
1i41a/1

The Albert Memorial, Hyde Park: Its History and Description, With Numerous Illustrations Engraved on Steel


DAFFORNE, JAMES

Lg quarto, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, black rule to boards, aeg, frontispiece with tissue guards, 70pp, illus, scruffy (v heavy scuffing & insect damage/surface loss to spine & boards, light soiling to eps, heavy cracking to some gutters, moderate foxing to prelims, light to moderate foxing & water staining to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Virtue and Company 1878

KEYWORDS: Albert memorial Hyde Park London history

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