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$100.00
2i35/3

The RAF and Aircraft Design 1923-1939: Air Staff Operational Requirements


SINNOTT, COLIN

Super octavo, blue heavy card boards with silver lettering to spine, xiii + 249pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Frank Cass 2001

KEYWORDS: Royal Air Force aviation history RAF history aircraft production design

$235.00
2i39/12

An Account of New Zealand and of the Formation and Progress of the Church Missionary Society's Mission in the North Island


YATE, REV. WILLIAM

Rebacked with new eps and spine, complete with maps and plates, piece of original spine with title mounted to spine, octavo, green cloth boards, black cloth spine, frontispiece, xii + 320pp, illus plates, VG- ( moderate rubbing to boards, moderate brusing & fraying to board corners & edges, light tanning to page edges, heavy foxing to prelims & plates, sporadic foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside1835 second edition

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history missionary church history

$245.00
2s20a/38

Australia Circumnavigated: The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803; Volumes I & II


FLINDERS, MATTHEW & MORGAN, KENNETH (Ed)

2 volume set, super octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, frontispiece,xxiv + 416 (vol 1), xiv + 560 (vol 2), NR FINE in NR FINE d/w

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Ashgate 2015

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history Matthew Flinders HMS Investigator exploration history travel

$475.00
2s20a/27

The New Zealand Country Journal Vol.II: A Record of Information conected with Agricultural, Pastorial and Horticultural Pursuits and Rural SPorts in New Zealand


n/a

Second year of issue (first year was 1877), octavo, textured dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering in red panel to spine, page edges stained red, 410pp + xxvii pages of adverts throughout, VG (some scuffing to spine title panel, light foxing to page edges & eps, nick to lower edge of fep)

PUBLISHER: COmmittee of Canterbury Agricultural & Pastoral Assn 1878

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history agriculture sport history

$12.00
xxpbi129218

Georgian Summer: Bath in the Eighteenth Century


GADD, DAVID

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable co6ndition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Adams & Dart 1971

KEYWORDS: British history 18th century eighteenth Bath culture social history

$9.50
xxpcg130045

Adolf Hitler: The Man and the Myth


MANVELL, ROGER & FRAENKEL, HEINRICH

Paperback (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Panther/Granada 1978

KEYWORDS: history biography memoir Adolf Hitler politics military history third reich nazism Germany

$22.50
xxpci130156

The Development of Piston Aero Engines: From the Wrights to Microlights: A Century of Evolution and Still a Power to be Reckoned With


GUNSTON, BILL

Ex-library, some highlighting & annotation, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Patrick Stephens 1994

KEYWORDS: aviation history evolution air planes transport engines engineering history

$48.50
2i42/10

Birds, Beasts & Fishes: THe First Hundred Years of the North Canturbury Acclimatisation Society


LAMB, R. C.

Octavo, blue cloth boards, black lettering to soine, frontispiece, 184pp, illus plates, VG+ ( Light tanning to upper page edges, previous overners name & ink stamp to fep) in d/w VG- ( light fading to spine, tape repair to upper spine extrems, light soiling & rubbing)

PUBLISHER: North Canturbury Acclimatisation Society 1964

KEYWORDS: Acclimatisation Society New Zealand history social history canturbury biology zoology

$45.00
2i46/27

Original Rolls-Royce and Bently 1946-65


TAYLOR, JAMES

significant highlighting, Imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, green eps, 160pp, illus, VG+ (ligth foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Bay View Books 1999

KEYWORDS: cars automobiles history Rolls royce bently history

$12.00
xxsml132078

Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children From Britain


MANN, JESSICA

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: Headline 2006

KEYWORDS: history ww2 second world war military evacuation social history

$30.00
xxpkk136209

A Brief History of Henderson Creek


COPEDO, BEN

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: West Auckland Historical Society 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Henderson Creek culture social history

$16.50
xxplj136903

The Retreat from Mons: By One who Shared it.


CORBETT - SMITH, A.

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: Cassell and Company 1917

KEYWORDS: war airforce military history aviation ww1 wwI world war one Britan UK history

$16.50
xxplj136928

Churchill Roosevelt Stalin: the War they Waged and the Peace they Sought


FEIS. HERBERT

super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy, some foxing): 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: Princetown University Press 1957

KEYWORDS: history WWII Yalta war peace settlement grand alliance post-war Europe military history Winston Churchill Theodore Roosevelt Joseph Stalin

$15.00
xxpoe138721

The Compleat Imbiber: An Entertainment: Volume 7


RAY, CYRIL (edit)

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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Vista Books 1964

KEYWORDS: wine alcohol humour wit history anecdotes history stories

$15.00
xxpoe138723

The Compleat Imbiber: An Entertainment: Volume 10


RAY, CYRIL (edit)

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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1969

KEYWORDS: wine alcohol humour wit history anecdotes history stories

$10.00
xxqbb141441

The Lives of the English Rakes


LINNANE, FERGUS

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Portrait 2006

KEYWORDS: History England social history Rochester Buckingham rakes

$10.00
xxqbe141626

Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestry Research in the Scottish Records Office


SINCLAIR, CECIL

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: The Stationary Office 1997

KEYWORDS: geneology family history scotland history ancestry

$50.00
1w50/40

The Astronauts: Pioneers in Space


COOPER, L. GORDON

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, 111pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light rubbing, light soiling, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1961

KEYWORDS: Astronauts history Space flight project Mercury history NASA

$18.50
xxqcf142350

Illustrated London


ACKROYD, PETER

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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Chatto and Windus 2003

KEYWORDS: Uk History London pictorial history

$20.00
xxqcj142991

The Little World of Stewart Island


DEMPSEY, GERTRUDE

Signed 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 cost

PUBLISHER: A.H & A.W.Reed 1964

KEYWORDS: Biography history natural history Stewart Island New Zealand

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