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$19.50
xxrkd193392

Tropic Temper


KIRKUP, JAMES

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: Readers Union Collins 1963

KEYWORDS: malaya malaysia history culture travel sociology

$20.00
xxria193394

A History of the Microbiology Department 1950-2010 [University of Otago]


KALMAKOFF, JAMES

Quarto 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: University of Otago Microbiology Department 2010

KEYWORDS: microbiology microbiolgical department university of otago history academic dunedin kalmakoff james dunedin

$25.00
xxrhg193415

The Great Game


On Secret Service in High Asia

HOPKIRK, PETER

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: John Murray 1990

KEYWORDS: history great game diplomacy politics military espionage imperialism colonialism central asia tsarist russia russian empire victorian caucasus china tibet india

$24.50
xxrhg193416

When I Left Home: My Story


GUY, BUDDY & RITZ, DAVID

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: Da Capo Press 2012

KEYWORDS: buddy guy david ritz america american blues music african american african-american black history entertainment culture memoir

$22.50
xxrhh193419

A History of Latin America: c.1450 to the present


Second Edition

BLAKEWELL, PETER

Imperial 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: Blackwell 2005

KEYWORDS: blackwell history latin america new world colonization colonisation colonialism imperialism twentieth 20th century americas central south

$10.00
xxrhk193427

The Mount Aspiring Region


BISHOP, GRAHAM

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: New Zealand Alpine Club 1989

KEYWORDS: mt aspiring otago lakes district mountaineering climbing new zealand graham bishop mountain mountains alpine history

$19.50
xxrhk193428

China Remembers


LIJIA, ZHANG & MACLEID, CALUM

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: china chinese oral history twentieth century 20th zhang lijia calum macleod people's republic

$40.00
1r12a/2

The Balkans since 1453


STAVRIANOS, L. S. & STOIANOVICH, TRAIAN (intro)

Super octavo, illus. light card covers, red & white lettering to black spine, xxxvii+970pp, illus photos & maps, VG (light creasing, rubbing & scuffing to covers, light sun-fading to spine, a few bumps/scuffs along page edges, prev. owner's stamps to inside front cover & half-title page)

PUBLISHER: C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 2002

KEYWORDS: ls stavrianos traian stoianovich balkans european early modern history historiography cultural political culture politics ottoman empire imperialism

$50.00
1r12a/5

A History of Modern Lebanon


TRABOULSI, FAWWAZ

Octavo, illus. light card covers, black & white lettering to red spine, xi+306pp, illus - maps, VG+ (v. light rubbing to covers & creasing to corners, small spot of light soiling to rear cover from adhesive residue where sticker prev. removed, light foxing to page edges, prev. owner's stamp to inside front cover, top right corner of half-title page cut out)

PUBLISHER: Pluto Press 2007

KEYWORDS: fawwaz traboulsi history modern lebanon lebanese middle eastern ottoman empire twentieth 20th century civil wars warfare military conflicts politics political

$40.00
1r12a/11

Phrenology; Proved, Illustrated, and Applied; Embracing an analysis of the primary mental powers, in their various degrees of development. The phenomena produced by their combined activity, and the Location of the Phrenological Organs in the Head, to


FOWLER, O. S. & FOWLER, L. N. & KIRKHAM, SAMUEL (assisted by)

SPINE DAMAGED WITH SIGNIFICANT SURFACE LOSS; Sm. octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering & decorative motif to spine, blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, vi+430pp+4pp publisher's adverts at rear, tatty VG- (spine heavily damaged with roughly two-thirds surface loss & spine coming almost entirely loose at top extrem, hinges heavily cracked, boards wobbly but still attached, light soiling & heavy rubbing, scuffing, fading & fraying to boards, heavy browning/discolouration to page edges, light-moderate foxing/soiling throughout, moreso to prelims/terminals, moderate oil? staining to top right corner of first approx. 25pp, phrenological diagram doodling in v. light pencil by prev. owner to one page at terminals)

PUBLISHER: S. R. Wells & Co. 1878

KEYWORDS: os ln fowler phrenology proved illustrated and applied science pseudoscience brains function neuroscience heads skulls scalp morphology human anatomy anatomical medicine history development practical applications of techniques technical historical phrenological 19th nineteenth century scientific methods guides mental traits illness personality

$245.00
1r12a/15

Sketch of the Early History of the Cymry, or Ancient Britons


ROBERTS, Revd. P.

LACKS TITLE PAGE; Octavo, brown heavy card boards, illus prelim - Hesus; From a bas relief found under the Choir of the Church of Notre Dame a Paris in 1711 (this plate appears again at p50, otherwise book is without illustrations), xvi+158pp+4pp index, scruffy VG- (moderate soiling & moderately heavy rubbing/scuffing to boards, moreso to corners, heavy fading/discolouration to boards, moderate fraying to spine extrems, v. small fragment of title label remains on spine - otherwise missing, light cracking to hinges & gutters, moderate creasing & soiling/discolouration to eps, a few light pencil marks to fep from prev. owner, title page is missing entirely, a few prelim pages starting to come loose, approx. 6cm closed tear to pp.ix-x, attempted tape repairs to pp.viii-x, a few additional small tears/light creases throughout text, moderate soiling/discolouration throughout text, moreso to page extrems/edges)

PUBLISHER: n/a c.1803

KEYWORDS: reverend peter roberts sketch early history cymry ancient britons social cultural political culture politics religion religious language traditions customs warfare conflicts military britain british isles wales welsh

$40.00
1r12a/17

Whites Pictorial Reference of New Zealand; Representative Airviews of New Zealand Cities and Boroughs


WHITE, LEO (compiled by)

Oblong octavo, burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 312pp, illus. aerial black & white photo plates, scruffy VG- (light soiling/rubbing to boards, heavy scuffing/fraying to lower spine extrems, heavy crack to front gutter with front board almost entirely detached as a result, light soiling & moderate dampstaining throughout impacting on several aerial photo plates - moreso at top edge of pages, moderate creasing to a couple of plates, prev. owner's name in blue ink to front pastedown, light annotation in pink & blue ink to North Island map on p.9, moderate scribbling in pencil to maps on pp.309-311 plus p.312 colophon)

PUBLISHER: Whites Aviation Limited 1953

KEYWORDS: leo white whites aviation pictorial reference new zealand airviews aerial photography photos photographs photographic history reference maps

$40.00
1r12a/21

St Michael's Remuera; 60th Anniversary - 1933-1993; A Jubilee History


GARRETT, JAMES

Draft manuscript annotated by the author; Quarto, illus. spiral bound light card covers, illus eps, frontispiece, illus prelims, 251pp, photo illus - photocopies, VG+ (light rubbing, light soiling to covers & page edges)

PUBLISHER: James Garrett FNZIA 1992

KEYWORDS: james garrett st michael's remuera jubilee history 60th sixtieth anniversary auckland north island new zealand christianity parish religion religious catholicism

$20.00
xxrhL193431

The Catalpa Rescue; The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history


FITZSIMONS, PETER

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: Hachette Australia 2019

KEYWORDS: peter fitzsimons catalpa rescue prison breaks fremantle western australian history incarceration clan-na-gael irish ireland independence activists activism british britain england english empire imperialism

$20.00
xxrhL193432

Captain Cook's Epic Voyage


BLAINEY, GEOFFREY

Revised edition; Super octavo softcover (VG+), prev. owner's name cut-out of top right corner of half-title page; 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: Viking 2020

KEYWORDS: geoffrey blainey captain james cook endeavour expeditions exploration travel adventure journeys australian history britain british empire english england imperialism colonialism jean de surville french france st jean-baptiste

$25.00
xxrhL193433

Boys in the Trees; A Memoir


SIMON, CARLY

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: Flatiron Books 2015

KEYWORDS: carly simon memoirs autobiography autobiographies music history musical pop popular folk boys in the trees

$22.50
xxrhL193434

Kokoda


HAM, PAUL

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: HarperCollinsPublishers Pty Limited 2004

KEYWORDS: paul ham kokoda track campaign world war two 2 second wwii papua new guinea australian japanese conflicts warfare military history

$25.00
xxrhL193435

The Paremata Barracks


BURNETT, R.I.M. & DAVIS, SUSAN

Super 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: National Historic Places Trust New Zealand 1963

KEYWORDS: rim burnett susan davis paremata barracks early settler new zealand military history wellington north island conflicts warfare maori wars imperialism colonialism

$35.00
xxrhL193436

Those Ragged Bloody Heroes; From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942


BRUNE, PETER

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: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd 1991

KEYWORDS: peter brune kokoda trail campaigns gona beach australian military history maroubra force papua new guinea japanese conflicts warfare world war two 2 second wwii

$39.50
xxrhL193437

Our First Foreign War; The Impact of the South African War 1899-1902 on New Zealand


ROBSON, NIGEL

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: Massey University Press 2021

KEYWORDS: nigel robson south african boer war new zealand britain british empire military history warfare conflicts imperialism colonialism

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