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$17.50
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The Cities of Spain (Fifth Edition)


HUTTON, EDWARD & RIMINGTON, A WALLACE (Illus)

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: Methuen & Co 1917

KEYWORDS: Spain travel writing literature history culture Edward Hutton

$35.00
xxe3bf172887

Stone's Otago & Southland Directory 1952 (Sixty-Ninth Year of Publication)


N/A

Super octavo hardcover (scruffy); 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: Stone, Son & Co 1952

KEYWORDS: New Zealand directories Otago Southland past previous years 1952 history

$38.50
xxe3bf172888

The House of Lords 1911-2011: A Century of Non-Reform


BALLINGER, CHRIS

LACKS D/W, super 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: Hart Publishing 2012

KEYWORDS: British house of Lords government history reform

$12.50
xxe3bf172889

Cabers and Ceilidhs: 150 Years of the Caledonian Society of Otago


STINSON, JOHN & GORDON, DONALD

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: Caledonian Society of Otago 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Scottish Caledonian society history highland

$20.00
xxe3bf172892

Keith Douglas 1920-1944: A Biography


GRAHAM, DOUGLAS

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, 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: Oxford University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: Keith Douglas biographies memoir history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$18.50
xxe3bf172894

London: A Short History


WILSON, A N

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004

KEYWORDS: history English England cities London

$40.00
1j42b/14

Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm


ERRINGTON, SHELLY

Super octavo, maroon buckram boards, white lettering to spine, xiv + 322pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1989

KEYWORDS: southeast asia history ethnology Indonesia Luwu geography

$40.00
1j42b/16

Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus


KENNEDY, HUGH

Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 342pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & rubbing to covers, light soiling & tanning to page edges, light foxing & tanning to inside covers)

PUBLISHER: Longman / Pearson Education 1996

KEYWORDS: history Spain Portugal Spanish Portugese muslim muslims Islam religion politics

$50.00
1j42b/17

Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680 (2 Vol Set)


REID, ANTHONY

2 VOL SET, super octavo, illus light card covers, white & cream lettering to spines, vol 1- xvi + 275pp, vol 2- xv + 390pp, illus, VG+ (light curling to cover edges, light bruising/creasing to top edge of front cover of vol 2, light chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1988-93

KEYWORDS: Southeast Asia history commerce business trade politics

$45.00
1j42b/21

The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall 1477-1806


ISRAEL, JONATHAN

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xxx + 1231pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: history Holland Dutch republic Europe European

$40.00
1j42b/26

Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 B.C. - A.D. 250


CLARKE, JOHN R

Imperial octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, xvii + 372pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & discolouration to extrems, light soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl fading to front cover, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1998

KEYWORDS: ancient history Rome Roman artefacts sex erotica art sexuality antiquity

$74.50
1j42b/27

History of Limehills 125th Celebration


OVERTON, NIGEL (Compiled & Ed)

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY EDITOR, super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & brown lettering to spine, frontispiece, 300pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy creasing/curling to front cover, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Limehills School 125 Year Jubilee Celebrations Committee 1996

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Limehills school district settlers pioneers history

$60.00
1j42b/28

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko


BIRD, ISABELLA L

SECOND EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp illus & rule to front board, frontispiece, xxiv + 336pp, illus, VG (tracks mis-spelled on spine, sl bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine, moderate staining & discolouration to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning/foxing to eps, modern ex-libris label to front pastedown, light cracking to some gutters, light smatterings of foxing to pages sporadically thorughout)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1911

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese travel writing literature adventure exploration history

$60.00
1j42b/33

Cairo: 1001 Years of The City Victorious


ABU-LUGHOD, JANET L

Quarto, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, xiv + 284pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: Egypt Cairo ancient history antiquity sociology anthropology

$40.00
1j48/8

Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews


LINDEMANN, ALBERT S

Super octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine, xxiv + 568pp, VG+ (light creasing to coevr edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: history Jews Jewish anti-semitism contemporary

$45.00
1j48/14

A Garland from Quatt


ADAMS, MARJORY F E

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 333pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to photographic pages)

PUBLISHER: Marjory F E Adams 2001

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history sutobiography memoir signed Marjory Adams pioneers

$80.00
1j48/17

The Hawaiian Kingdom 1778-1874 (2 Vol Set)


KUYKENDALL, RALPH S & DAWS, GAVAN (Fore)

2 VOL SET, super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispiece to vol 1, illus eps, vol 1- xiii + 453pp, vol 2- x + 310pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps of both vols, sm numbers in ink to prelims of vol 1) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spines, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1980-82

KEYWORDS: history Hawaii Hawai'i politics political government

$55.00
1j48/18

Ross in the Antarctic: The Voyages of James Clark Ross in Her Majesty's Ships Erebus & Terror 1839-1843


ROSS, M J

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 276pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising/scuffing to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light tanning & foxing to first 16 pages, foxing to loosely enclosed ephemera) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light discolouration to front, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Caedmon of Whitby 1982

KEYWORDS: exploration history maritime nautical James Clark Ross voyages pioneers

$45.00
1j48/23

Pubs o' the South


HUSBAND, JOHN

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, oblong quarto, illus light card covers, black & green lettering to spine, 144pp, illus, VG+ (sl curling to cover edges, sl chafing & creasing to covers, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Craig Printing 2007

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Otago Southland pubs public houses paintings drawings historic buildings history

$40.00
1j48/27

Freed to Care, Proud to Nurse: 100 Years of the New Zealand Nurses Organisations


O'CONNOR, MARY ELLEN

Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, 310pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand nursing history healthcare nurses organisation organization

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