DE SEVIGNE, MADAME LA MARQUISE & HAMMERSLEY, VIOLET (Selected, Trans & Intro) & MAUGHAM, W SOMERSET (Preface)

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PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1956

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SMALL, JOHN

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PUBLISHER: University of Canterbury Printery (Printer) 2000

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SHERMER, MICHAEL

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PUBLISHER: Henry Holt 2015

KEYWORDS: philosophy history morality ethics science

WHITEHEAD, ANNE

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PUBLISHER: Profile Books 2003

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HANLON, A C & MYERS, The Rt Hon SIR MICHAEL (Preface)

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PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers 1939

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ROGLIATTI, G

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PUBLISHER: Edita Lausanne 1978

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CLAASSEN, LYNDA COREY (Fore)

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PUBLISHER: William Reese Company / Hordern House Ltd 2004

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SCROPE, WILLIAM & HAGHE, L (Illus) & LANDSEER, T (Illus) & WILLIAMS, S (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: John Murray 1843

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HAMILTON, GEORGE & ALLAN, ALEX (Fore) & GESNER, PETER (Essay)

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PUBLISHER: Hordern House Rare Books 1998

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BURNEY, JAMES & HOOPER, BEVERLEY (Ed & Intro)

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PUBLISHER: National Library of Australia 1975

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MALONE, M J (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Access Press 1997

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NANSEN, FRIDTJOF & HUNTFORD, ROLAND (Intro)

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PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth & Co 2000

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BEMIS, SAMUEL FLAGG

2 VOL SET, FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, maroon full leather binding, gilt lettering & rasied bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, frontispiece to vol 1, vol 1- xix + 588pp + xv index & folding map to rear, vol 2- xv + 546pp + xix index to rear, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1987

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AL-MULK, NIZAM & DARKE, HUBERT (Trans) & LEVY, REUBEN (Intro)

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PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1960

KEYWORDS: ancient Persian literature English translations history historical philosophy antiquity Nizam al-Mulk

PALEOLOGUE, MAURICE & HOLT, FREDERICK A (Trans) & SCHAPIRO, L B (Intro)

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PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1973

KEYWORDS: journals diaries autobiography autobiographies memoir Maurice Paleologue Russia Russian history France French politics political

ROBERTSON, JOHN & CHAUVEL, GENERAL SIR HARRY (Intro) & ALLEN, COLONEL THE HON. SIR JAMES (Intro)

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PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1938

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HARRIS, G (HARRIS, Mrs JAMES P)

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PUBLISHER: John Murray 1858

KEYWORDS: diary journal diaries journals G Mrs James P Harris Lucknow sieges history

WEBBER, NA MELINDA & O'CONNOR, TE KAPUA & HITA, QUINTON (tuhi na)

TEXT IN TE REO MAORI, super octavo, red heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 178pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2022

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN TE REO MAORI New Zealand history north island culture

ABRING, H D

4 VOL SET, TEXT IN GERMAN, quarto, vols 2-4 illus heavy boards, vol 1 illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to board & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to boards & covers, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Herausgeber 1977-97

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN art photography history cameras design development

PADOVER, SAUL K (Ed, Arranged & Intro)

FULL LEATHER BINDING, octavo, brown full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, unpaginated prelims, 430pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1989

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