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xxbgd195656

Wanderings in Arabia: Being an Abridgment of Travels in Arabia Deserta


DOUGHTY, CHARLES M.

LACKS D/W; EX-LIBRARY; 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: Duckworth 1926

KEYWORDS: arabia arabian peninsula middle east asia abridged version abdridgement charles m doughty travel history

$25.00
xxbgd195658

John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Correspondence and Subsequent Marriage


HAYEK, F.A. & [MILL, JOHN STUART] & [TAYLOR, HARRIET]

EX-LIBRARY; 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: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1951

KEYWORDS: ex-library john stuart mill harriet taylor economics economy britain british england english biography history philosopher

$25.00
xxbgd195660

Macandrew Bay: A History of a Community on the Otago Peninsula


MILLER, BRIAN & MILLER, DIANE

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Lifelogs Ltd 2009

KEYWORDS: dunedin brian diane miller history otago new zealand local peninsula

$19.50
xxbgf195668

The New Zealand People at War: The Home Front: Vol. 1


Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945

TAYLOR, NANCY M.

EX-LIBRARY; THIS VOL. ONLY.; Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG, in transparent plastic) ; 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: V.R. Ward, Government Printer 1986

KEYWORDS: new zealand second world war two ww2 wwii history official people at war nancy taylor home front

$22.50
xxbhc195674

A History of the European Economy, 1000-2000


CROUZET, FRANCOIS

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Virginia Press 2001

KEYWORDS: francois crouzet europe european economy money policy history economics politics political

$22.50
xxbhc195677

Meaning in Technology


PACEY, ARNOLD

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: MIT Press 2001

KEYWORDS: arnold pacey meaning technology history industry culture cultural political economy politics

$75.00
1w13a/6

W: The First 40 Years


TONCHI, STEFANO (Ed) & BAGLEY, CHRISTOPHER (Ed) & LOGAN, JOSEPH (Ed)

Lg quarto, white illus heavy boards, red gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 311pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light chafing & soiling to spine & boards) in mylar protective cover- moderate scuffing

PUBLISHER: Abrams 2012

KEYWORDS: fashion photography photos W history collection anthology

$85.00
1w13a/11

1st Battalion: Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment 1957-2007


KOOREY, PAUL (Ed)

Imperial octavo, green heavy boards, red gilt lettering to spine & front board, 344pp, illus/photo, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, in mylar protective cover- minor chafing)

PUBLISHER: Willson Scott Publishing 2007

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 1st first battalion royal new zealand infantry regiment late 20th twentieth century

$40.00
1w13a/16

Four Generations at Oreti


McMILLIN, WENE MARGARET

DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHORS, octavo, illus stapled card covers, white lettering to front cover, 77pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate chafing/surface loss & soiling/wrinkling to covers & inside covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Wene Margaret McMillin N/D (c.1980s)

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand family history Wene Margaret McMillin settlers pioneers Oreti genealogy

$42.50
1w13a/18

Touching on Deaths: A Medical History of Early Auckland Based on the First 384 Inquests


GLUCKMAN, LAURIE & GLUCKMAN, ANN (Ed) & WAGG, MIKE (Ed)

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY EDITOR, super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, 358pp, VG (light to moderate creasing/wrinkling to spine & covers with light chafing also, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Doppelganger 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand medical history Auckland inquests

$40.00
1w13a/25

The Life and Music of John Field 1782-1837: Creator of the Nocturne


PIGGOTT, PATRICK

Super octavo, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 287pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, light foxing & discolouration to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing, moderate foxing to flaps & rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1973

KEYWORDS: music history John Field biographies memoir composers classical

$285.00
1w13a/26

A Favoured Few: Regular Force Cadet School 1948-1991


TAYLOR, RICHARD

Quarto, red faux leather boards, silver gilt lettering to spoine & front board, 196pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cosmos Publications 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history army cadet school

$550.00
1w13a/27

Jewellery 1789-1910 The International Era (2 Vol Set)


BURY, SHIRLEY

2 VOL SET, quarto, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, illus eps, frontispieces, 863pp total, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, minor water staining to base of spines, sl foxing to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light fading to spines, light chafing & wrinkling, sm label residue to rear covers)

PUBLISHER: Antique Collector's Club 1991

KEYWORDS: jewellery jewelry antiques history fashion international era art crafts

$75.00
1w13a/29

The Journal of the First Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment: Southeast Asia 1957-1989


CLOSE, CAPTAIN D G (Ed) & ABBOTT, Mrs GLORIA (Typists)

TYPED LETTER LOOSELY ENCLOSED, quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering & military insignia to front board, frontispiece, 218pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to spine & extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: 1 RNZIR Dieppe Barracks 1989

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history royal infantry regiment journal southeast asia late 20th twentieth century first 1st battalion

$19.50
1w13a/30

Classic Myth and Legend


MONCRIEFF, A R HOPE

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & coloured illus to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 443pp, illus- not counted presumed all present, G+ (spine heavily cracked & flapping, moderate chafing & soiling ot boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- boards shaky, varying degrees of foxing & pencil markings throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Gresham Publishing Company N/D

KEYWORDS: ancient history myths legends Greek Rome Greece Roman mythology

$40.00
1w13a/31

Costume of the Ancients, in Two Volumes: Volume II


HOPE, THOMAS

THIS VOL ONLY, SPINE MISSING OTHERWISE BINDING SOUND, super octavo, brown heavy leather boards, gilt rule to boards, gilt stamp illus/motif to front board, marbled page edges & eps, unpaginated, illus/plates- uncounted presumed all present, G+ (spine missing, boards heavily chafed & soiled/stained, moderate cracking to som egutters, varying degrees of tanning & foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Henry G Bohn 1841

KEYWORDS: ancient costumes clothing attire history historical Rome Greece roman greek

$250.00
1w13b/3

A History of the First Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment


BROCK, CAPTAIN C E

Quarto, brown stapled light card covers, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG- (moderate tanning & staining to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to front cover, moderate rusting & staining to staples at spine, 2x photos tipped in to inside front cover, moderate discolouration to front & rear eps)

PUBLISHER: Capt. C E Brock 1971

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 1st first battalion royal new zealand infantry regiment

$40.00
1w13b/8

Pakeha Settlements in a Maori World: New Zealand Archaeology 1769-1860


SMITH, IAN

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 328pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, light bruising/curling to cover edges/corners)

PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2019

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history archaeology archeology pakeha maori settlements colonial colonialism

$425.00
1w13b/9

Time Remembered


HORNER, FRANCES

SCARCE FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus buckram boards, maroon & cream lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xvi + 237pp, illus, VG- (light bruising to extrems, heavy rubbing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- some pgs loose, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, varying degrees of foxing throughout- mostly quite moderate)

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1933

KEYWORDS: scarce first editions Frances Horner English nobility history

$50.00
1w13b/12

The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Lateran, at St Monica's in Louvain (Now at St Augustine's Priory, Newton Abbot, Devon) 1548-1644


HAMILTON, DOM ADAM (Ed, Notes & Additions)

2 VOLS, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to cream buckram spines, teg, deckled page edges, frontispieces with tissue guards, vol 1- xx + 277pp, vol 2- xx + 219pp, folding charts/diagrams to rear of both vols, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate tanning to spines, light to moderate chafing/fading to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to eps, ffep of vol 2 partially detached, varying degrees of foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sands & Co 1904-06

KEYWORDS: history family tree St Monica canoness English augustinian religion religious

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