ALSOP, PETER & ATKINSON, NEILL & MILBURN, KATHERINE & WOLFE, RICHARD

Square quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 383pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems- sl surface loss)

PUBLISHER: Te Papa Press 2020

KEYWORDS: New Zealand art design Railway Studios history railways advertising

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

N/A

LACKS D/W; TEXT IN JAPANESE & ENGLISH; Ex-library; large quarto, purple cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 181pp, illus. colour plates, folding map, VG (light soiling & sun-fading to boards, light tanning to page edges, light creasing to folding map, small library stamp to fep)

PUBLISHER: n/a n/d

KEYWORDS: ex-library text in japanese japan architecture design history imperial palace illustrated photography pictorial guides

KNIGHT, HARDWICKE

THIS VOL. ONLY; Fourth series; oblong octavo, spiral-bound light card covers, illus. prelims, unpaginated, illus. photo plates, VG (light foxing/soiling throughout, moderate to covers)

PUBLISHER: The Hardwicke Knight Collection 1992

KEYWORDS: dunedin otago south island new zealand pictorial history early settler colonial photographs photography collections hardwicke knight

WHITE, JEANIE

Quarto illus. stapled light card covers, illus prelims, 34pp, illus, VG (light soiling to covers & page edges)

PUBLISHER: n/a 1989

KEYWORDS: nelson south island new zealand south street history historic houses buildings

HOBHOUSE, HENRY

FIRST EDITION; Super octavo, burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine; x + 245pp, illus - maps, VG+ (light soiling & scuffing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light soiling/discolouration, light chipping & creasing to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited

KEYWORDS: first editions plants botany vegetables food crops agricultural political social history quinine sugar tea cotton potatoes

KEMP, MARTIN

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 314pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to boards, light sun-fading to spine & board extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light sun-fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: italy italian renaissance art cultural history artists theory european

ZIMMERMAN, Fr. ANTHONY

Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 159pp, VG+ (light soiling to boards, bookseller's stamp to fep) in d/w, VG (light soiling, light rubbing & creasing to extrems, moderate sun-fading)

PUBLISHER: Vantage Press, Inc. 1991

KEYWORDS: bible biblical studies history religion christianity genesis adam and eve garden of eden paradise native indigenous aboriginal ancient creation myths mythology