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$10.00
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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
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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

$100.00
1u38/25

A History of the 15th (East Yorkshire) Regiment (the Duke of York's Own) 1685-1914


JONES, ROBERT J. & SPRINGHALL, BRIGADIER R.J.

Imperial octavo, deep maroon cloth boards, copper lettering to spine, copper decoration to front cover, illus, 575pp, VG (minor bruising to spine extrems and board corners, minor foxing on a few pages and page edge, light tanning to eps, very sound)

PUBLISHER: 1958

KEYWORDS: history militia military England Great Britain Yorkshire uniform equipment campaigns history statistics officers

$125.00
1u38/26

The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, 1928-1956: wIth Folding Maps (rear pocket)


UNDERHILL, BRIGADIER, W. E.

imperial octavo, folding maps in rear pocket (in very good condition), green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt regimental insignia to front board, frontispiece, illus, photographic plates, ix + 277pp, VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems, slight bruising and rubbing to boards, light foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps)

PUBLISHER: Underhill 1957

KEYWORDS: history militia military England Great Britain Leicestershire uniform equipment Italy Singapore Palestine Tobruk Norway Greece Burma campaigns history statistics officers

$20.00
xxqek144677

The Nazi Terror: Gestapo, Jews and Ordinary Germans


JOHNSON, ERIC

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: John Murray 2000

KEYWORDS: History Nazis social history Third Reich Hitler

$95.00
1y11/29

Promoting Prosperity: The Art of Early New Zealand Advertising


ALSOP, PETER & STEWART, GARY & ROBERTS, KEVIN (fore)

large quarto, beautifully illus heavy card boards, silver lettering on black spine, photo illus on eps, frontispiece, illus prelims, 440pp, illus, VG+, in d/w VG+

PUBLISHER: Craig Potton 2013

KEYWORDS: advertising marketing New Zealand development history products history social culture

$20.00
xxqfe145031

A Guide to the Sources of British Military History


HIGHAM, ROBIN (ed)

Imperial 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 cost

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1971

KEYWORDS: History reference sources guide military history

$14.00
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The Golden Age: Myths and Legends Series


BULLFINCH, THOMAS

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: Bracken Books 1986

KEYWORDS: art history mythology ancient history illustrated

$60.00
1y12/29

Costume and Fashion, Volume Three: the Tudors, Book 2: 1547-1603


NORRIS, HERBERT

Small quarto, deep purple cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine with gilt & red illustration on spine & front cover; frontispiece, pages numbered 385-832: 447pp, illus, a little scruffy but sound (mod. rubbing, soiling and insect damage to covers; edges mod. bruised with sl. surface loss on spine extrems; mod. tanning with sl. foxing to eps & page edges; slightly cocked) in d/w scruffy (bruising, rubbing, soiling & insect damage; edges worn with small open tears; 70x50cm open tear on spine, dampstaining inside)

PUBLISHER: J. M. Dent & Sons 1938 (?)

KEYWORDS: history costume fashion manufacture sewing England History Tudor Tudors fabrics material

$100.00
1y27/20

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Vol 1- The Birth of Britain: Vol 2- The New World: Vol 3- The Age of Revolution: Vol 4- The Great Democracies


CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.

4 VOLUME SET, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, top of page edges stained red, xi-xxi + 322pp-416pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems and board edges with sl surface loss, light foxing to page edges and prelims, slight foxing to pages throughout all vols) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing and chipping and occasional tears to covers- severe to vol 1, archival tape repairs to edges of vols 1, 7cm closed tear to cover of vol 2, moderate foxing & tanning to all covers)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1956-1958

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill history Great Britiain illustrated literature culture language grammar syntax pre-history

$25.00
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Destiny's Daughter: The Tragedy of RMS Queen Elizabeth


GALBRAITH, RUSSELL

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Mainstream Publishing 1988

KEYWORDS: history rms queen elizabeth history maritime

$14.00
xxgif147750

The History of Reckitt and Sons Limited


RECKITT, BASIL N.

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 Brown & Sons 1965

KEYWORDS: history memoir reckitt family history

$30.00
xxzdc151261

South Island Steam Memories: Published to Mark 50th Anniversary End of NZR Steam, Oct 26 1971 - 2021. Fairlie Branch Line Memories


JOHN, R. A.

Quarto 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 cost

PUBLISHER: R. A John 2017

KEYWORDS: new zealand history train rail steam history dunedin christchurch otago

$22.50
xxhcaa154045

The Natural World of the Maori


ORBELL, MARGARET & MOON, GEOFF (phot)

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: David Bateman 1996

KEYWORDS: Maori New Zealand culture history natural history

$30.00
xxhqp154590

Natural History of Canterbury: A series of articles on the early history of the province and on the history of scientific investigation, up til 1926, as well as on some results of this investigation


SPEIGHT, R. & WALL, ARNOLD & LAING, R. M. (eds)

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BOTANIST DAVID GALLOWAY, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 1927

KEYWORDS: natural history Canterbury New Zealand history science

$50.00
1y64/17

Cultures of Natural History


JARDINE, N. (ed) & SECORD, J. A. (ed) & SPARY, E. C. (ed)

SIGNED & DATED BY PREVIOUS OWNER BOTANIST DAVID GALLOWAY, Imperial octavo illus light card covers, gold and purple lettering to spine and covers, printed fep, frontispiece, xxi+501pp, illus, VG (moderate creasing and light denting to spine & covers, sl. scuffing to covers, light soiling to front cover, v. sl soiling to page edges, previous owners name in ink and stamp to fep)

PUBLISHER: University of Cambridge Press 1996

KEYWORDS: natural history culture essays history science research ecology environment illustrated

$10.00
xxdpb156274

Maharana Raj Singh and His Times


SHARMA, SRI RAM

Super octavo, hardcover (VG-) in d/w (tatty); 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: Motilala Banarsidass 1971

KEYWORDS: History Indian history marwar

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