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$15.00
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Hakluyt Society: Sir Thomas Roe: Eyewitness to a Changing World: Annual Lecture 2017


DAS, NANDINI

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: The Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2018

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures 2017 history historical exploration Sir Thomas Roe

$15.00
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Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2016: Experiments in Reading Richard Hakluyt's 'Principal Navigations'


FULLER, MARY C

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: The Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2017

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures 2016 history historical exploration Richard Hakluyt principal navigations

$15.00
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Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2014: Geographies of the Prime Meridian


WITHERS, CHARLES W J

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: The Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2015

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures 2014 history historical exploration navigation prime meridian measurements

$15.00
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Hakluyt Society Annual Talk 1996: Richard Hakluyt and His Books


PAYNE, ANTHONY & NEVILLE-SINGTON, P A

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: The Hakluyt Society 1997

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures talks 1996 history historical exploration Richard Hakluyt literature books maritime voyages

$19.50
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A Brief History of Otahuhu


SEDAL, V I

Ex-library, quarto 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: Otahuhu Borough Council 1982

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Otahuhu boroughs towns

$20.00
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Ancient Chinese Pottery - A Crystallization of Life and Wisdom


HSIU, HUANG CHUN & YANG-CHU, HSU (Trans)

Imperial 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: Chen Kuei-miao 1989

KEYWORDS: ancient Chinese pottery art crafts artefacts history

$25.00
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City of Birmingham Official Handbook 1938


FAULKNER, L W (Compiled & Ed)

Super octavo softcover (VG-) cracking to central gutters; 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: General Purposes Committee 1938

KEYWORDS: English British cities history official guides 1938 culture activities

$20.00
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Post-War Laos: The Politics of Culture, History and Identity


PHOLSENA, VATTHANA

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: ISEAS 2006

KEYWORDS: Laos politics political history ideology ethnography anthropology

$30.00
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death


CUMMING, LAURA

Octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (Near FINE); 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: Chatto & Windus 2023

KEYWORDS: art history criticism philosophy biographies Laura Cumming

$20.00
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An Introductory Guide to the Corporation of London Records Office


DEADMAN, HUGO (Ed) & SCUDDER, ELIZABETH (Ed)

Octavo stapled stiff 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: Corporation of London 1994

KEYWORDS: London records office administration history historical

$16.50
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Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century


ALLEN, CHARLES (Ed) & MASON, MICHAEL (Association) & MASON, PHILIP (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: Andre Deutsch 1976

KEYWORDS: British India colonies colonial history 20th twentieth century

$19.50
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Letters from Madame la Marquise de Sevigne


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

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: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1956

KEYWORDS: letters correspondence Madame la Marquise de Sevigne French aristocracy history royal family

$30.00
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A Lifetime Revisited - The First 92 Years


LUNDIE, W J (JACK)

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 J (Jack) Lundie 2009

KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir W J Jack Lundie New Zealand Zealanders pioneers rural life living family history good bastards

$25.00
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Almost a Century: Educational Studies at the University of Canterbury 1904-1999


SMALL, JOHN

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: University of Canterbury Printery (Printer) 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand university further tertiary education academic academia universities Canterbury 20th twentieth century history

$18.50
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The Moral Arc


SHERMER, MICHAEL

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: Henry Holt 2015

KEYWORDS: philosophy history morality ethics science

$26.50
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Blue Stocking in Patagonia


WHITEHEAD, ANNE

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: Profile Books 2003

KEYWORDS: Mary Gilmore biography biographies memoir history

$32.50
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Random Recollections: Notes on a Lifetime at the Bar


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

FIRST EDITION, 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: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers 1939

KEYWORDS: A C Hanlon New Zealand Zealanders law history legal autobiography autobiographies memoir first editions

$25.00
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Leica 1925-1975: Ein Handbuch fur den Sammler


ROGLIATTI, G

TEXT IN GERMAN, 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: Edita Lausanne 1978

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN cameras photos photography technology Leica design history

$40.00
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The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages at the University of California, San Diego (Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged)


CLAASSEN, LYNDA COREY (Fore)

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiii + 792pp, VG+ (v sl bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: William Reese Company / Hordern House Ltd 2004

KEYWORDS: antiquarian books book collections collectors Dorothy Kenneth Hill collection catalogue catalogues Pacific exploration voyages maritime nautical history historical

$400.00
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Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in The Tweed; with a Short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, Instructions to Sportsmen, Anecdotes, etc


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

Super octavo, black half leather bound boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, teg, frontispiece, xvii + 298pp, plates/illus with loosely enclosed tissue guards, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl chafing to boards, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, minor tanning & foxing to plates although largely still very tidy)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1843

KEYWORDS: angling fly fishing flyfishing salmon hobbies historical natural history fish tweed

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