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$60.00
2s17b/13

A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora


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

Octavo, quarter leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate on spine with gilt rule also, frontispiece, 37pp + 164pp, illus, VG+ (sl fading & scuffing to spine, light bruising to board corners)

PUBLISHER: Hordern House Rare Books 1998

KEYWORDS: maritime exploration voyages history historical journeys Pandora Bounty Oceania

$40.00
2s17b/15

With Captain James Cook in the Antarctic and Pacific: The Private Journal of James Burney Second Lieutenant of the Adventure on Cook's Second Voyage 1772-1773


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

Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt nautical illus to boards, illus eps, xi + 112pp, illus/maps, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, minor soilng to front board, sl foxing to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: National Library of Australia 1975

KEYWORDS: history historical voyages exploration maritime nautical journeys Pacific Antarctic 18th eighteenth century journals diaries James Burney James Cook

$225.00
2s17b/16

SAS: A Pictorial History of the Australian Special Air Service 1957-1997


MALONE, M J (Ed)

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, unpaginated prelims, 416pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine cocked & sl faded, light bruising/rubbing to spine & board corners, light chafing to boards, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Access Press 1997

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian military history sas special air service illustrated special forces

$65.00
2s17b/17

Farthest North


NANSEN, FRIDTJOF & HUNTFORD, ROLAND (Intro)

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + maps + 508pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning & chafing)

PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth & Co 2000

KEYWORDS: history historical journeys maritime exploration nautical voyages north North Pole Fram Fridtjof Nansen

$80.00
2s19a/9

John Quincey Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy / John Quincey Adams and the Union (2 Vol Set)


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

KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series John Quincey Adams former US leaders politics political leaders foreign policy history government

$100.00
2s19a/22

The Book of Government or Rules for Kings: The Siyasat-nama or Siyar al-Muluk


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

Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering with red & gilt decoration to spine, xi + 259pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with some minor loss, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1960

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

$40.00
2s19a/24

An Ambassador's Memoirs 1914-1917


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

LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt & red lettering to spine, gilt decoration/illus to front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, illus/photos, VG (light rubbing & fading to spine, light tanning & staining to page edges, ex-libris plate & label to half title page, moderate cracking & light staining to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1973

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

$175.00
2s19a/26

With the Cameliers in Palestine


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

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, blind lettering & rule to front board, frontispiece, 244pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light fading/tanning to spine, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soilinng to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1938

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand Palestine military war history cameliers ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war

$425.00
2s19a/30

A Lady's Diary of the Siege of Lucknow, Written for the Perusal of Friends at Home


HARRIS, G (HARRIS, Mrs JAMES P)

Sm octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, vii + 211pp + 32pp to rear, VG (moderate tanning/fading to spine & board edges, moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light cracking to gutters, light soiling to eps, light foxing sporadically throughout, binder's sm label to rear pastedown)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1858

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

$40.00
2s19a/39

Ka Ngangana Tonu a Hineamaru


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

$80.00
2s19a/40

A Changing Land: Sir Donald McLean's Maraekakaho - 1857 to Today


SCARFE, ALAN

Super octavo, illu slgossy light card covers with french flaps, white & brown lettering to spine, xii + 595pp, illus + folding map, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Fraser Books 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand rural history Hawke's Bay Sir Donald McLean

$120.00
2s19a/45

Von Daguerre bis Heute (4 Vol Set)


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

$46.00
2s19a/49

The Washington Papers: Basic Selections from the Public and Private Writings of George Washington


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

KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series George Washington former US leaders politics political history papers writings

$22.50
37pol202437

Balzac's Lives


BROOKS, PETER

8vo 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: New York Review Books 2020

KEYWORDS: 19th century Balzac novel novelist criticism literature biography social history comedy manners

$22.50
37pol202440

We Have Won the Land: The Story of the Purchase by the Assynt Crofters' Trust of the North Lochinver Estate


MACASKILL, JOHN; HUNTER, JIM (forew)

SIGNED. 8vo 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: Acair 1999

KEYWORDS: North Lochinver Estate 20th century 1990s history politics Assynt land purchase crofter

$25.00
84pol202479

Tales of a Chinese Grandmother


CARPENTER, FRANCES; HASSELRIIS, MALTHE (illus)

8vo hardcover (VG) lacking d/w; 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: George G. Harrap & Company 1938

KEYWORDS: tales stories story China Chinese history folk lore folk-lore myth legend

$19.50
84pol202504

Barra


MCGREGOR, HELEN & COOPER, JOHN

Super 8vo 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: Canongate 1984

KEYWORDS: Scotland Island photgraphs photos photography social history culture custom pictorial

$15.00
84pol202505

A Churchill Family Album


SOAMES, MARY (ed)

Super 8vo 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: Penguin Books 1985

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill family history biography war conflict Prime Minister England

$22.50
85pol202515

The Fishing Here is Great! A Light-Hearted Discourse on the Social Historu of Angling as Depicted on Old Postcards


MILLS, DEREK

8vo illus 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: Willow Books 1985

KEYWORDS: fishing fish angling angler fisherman fishermen river stream literature fly social history postcards

$35.00
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Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History


HAMEL, DEBRA

8vo 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: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: Herodotus Greece Rome Greek Roman classical history ancient antiquity criticism

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