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$35.00
xxscl195893

The Thoroughbred Among Banks in New Zealand: Volume I The Early Years 1872-1947


HAWKE, GARY & HOLMES, Sir FRANK (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, 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: The National Bank of New Zealand 1997

KEYWORDS: New Zealand banking finance history National Bank

$39.50
xxscl195894

A History of Mountain Climbing


FRISON-ROCHE, ROGER & JOUTY, SYLVAIN & DUSINBERRE, DEKE (Trans)

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: Flammarion 1996

KEYWORDS: history exploration mountain climbing mountaineering the Alps ranges adventure

$25.00
xxscm195901

The Seven Mountain - Travel Books


TILMAN, H W & PERRIN, JIM (Intro)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Diadem 1983

KEYWORDS: mountaineering mountain climbing travel exploration adventure H W Tilman history

$16.50
xxscm195906

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton


LOVELL, MARY S

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: W W Norton & Company 2000

KEYWORDS: Richard Isabel Burton biographies biography memoir explorers scholars exploration travel history

$19.50
xxscm195909

The Tuntsa


TUREN, TEPPO & MCCABE, ELIZABETH MADDOX

FIRST EDITION, 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: Arthur Barker 1962

KEYWORDS: first editions history nautical adventures maritime voyages Tuntsa exploration sailing

$15.00
xxscm195910

The Great Days of Sail


SHEWAN, ANDREW & MACGREGOR, DAVID R (Intro)

Ex-library, 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: Conway Maritme Press 1973

KEYWORDS: nautical sailing maritime sailing clippers travel writings literature Captain Shewan history

$19.50
xxsco195912

Sir Francis Drake


THOMSON, GEORGE MALCOLM

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Book Club Associates / BCA 1972

KEYWORDS: English history Sir Francis Drake biographies biography memoir

$18.50
xxsco195913

The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868


HUGHES, ROBERT

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Collins Harvill 1987

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian convicts transportation convict colonies history British prison fleets

$20.00
xxsco195916

The Skilled Labourer 1760-1832


HAMMOND, J L and BARBARA

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: Longmans, Green and Co 1920

KEYWORDS: labour force labourers history workers English trades

$22.50
xxsco195918

War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War November 1939-March 1940


SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL & HOARE, QUINTIN (Trans)

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: Verso 1999

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 diaries soldiers journals Jean-Paul Sartre

$100.00
1w41a/12

German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse


FIGURA, STARR & JELAVICH, PETER (Essay)

Lg heavy quarto, cream illus cloth boards, beige lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 288pp, illus, VG+ (light to moderate chafing/rubbing to spine & boards, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, 4cm closed tear to top edge of front- discreet archival tape repairs, moderate fading to spine, light chafing, prev. booksellers sm label to rear)

PUBLISHER: The Museum of Modern Art 2011

KEYWORDS: art criticism appreciation German expressionism history

$40.00
1w41a/13

Chinese Art: The Minor Arts II


JENYNS, R SOAME & WATSON, WILLIAM (Ed Assist.)

Ex-library, no jacket- front flap loosely enclosed, lg heavy quarto, beige cloth boards, brown lettering to spine, 323pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG- (usual library markings, lightr bruising & moderate staining to boards/edges, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, sm ex-libris plate to front pastedown, light to moderate scuffing & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, ugly heavy tape repair to rear gutter- rear ep neatly torn out, light foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Oldbourne Press 1965

KEYWORDS: art history criticism appreciation China Chinese artefacts minor arts

$25.00
xxscr195926

Chapman Tripp & Co - the First 100 Yeras


GORE, ROSS

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: Chapman Tripp & Co 1975

KEYWORDS: New Zealand business companies Chapman Tripp & Co history centennial centenary lawyers law firms legal

$12.00
xxscu195942

Walter Nash


SINCLAIR, KEITH

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (G+) jacket 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: Auckland University Press 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history politics political parliament government Prime Ministers Walter Nash biography biographies memoir

$18.50
xxscu195948

High Adventure


HILLARY, EDMUND & SPARK, A (Maps) & DJURKOUIC, GEORGE (Sketches)

FIRST EDITION, 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: Hodder & Stoughton 1955

KEYWORDS: first editions adventure history mountaineering mountain climbing expeditions Mt Mount Everest autobiography Sir Edmund Hillary

$28.50
xxscu195949

Subaltern Studies X: Writings on South Asian History and Society


BHADRA, GAUTAM & PRAKASH, GYAN & THARU, SUSIE (Eds)

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: Oxford University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: South Asian history society culture

$15.00
xxscu195952

Leckey and Brammall Families


LECKEY, JOHN et al

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: J A Leckey 1986

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian family history histories genealogy settlers pioneers

$20.00
xxscu195955

A Cornish Goldminer at Hamiltons


PATERSON, AUDREY I

Imperial octavo stapled light card covers (VG-) occasional highlighting to text; 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: Otago Heritage Books 1980

KEYWORDS: New Zealand goldmining gold history heritage Otago Hamiltons

$25.00
xxscu195956

The Life and Correspondence of Leonard Cockayne


THOMSON, A D

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: The Caxton Press (Printer) 1983

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders history Leonard Cockayne biographies biography memoir letters prose correspondence

$10.00
xxscu195957

Genealogical Table of Anderson Branch of the Calder Clan Dunedin 120 Years - 1849 to 1969


WILLIS, Mrs C R & BATHGATE, Miss M (Compiled by)

Octavo stapled light card covers (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 (Printer) 1969

KEYWORDS: family history genealogy Anderson Calder New Zealand Dunedin

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