MUNCHAUSEN, BARON & CRUIKSHANK, G (Illus)

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt & black lettering & decoration/rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 268pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing & chafing/surface loss to boards- minor to spine, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to front gutter- partially detached with front board shaky, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, light tanning & foxing to pages throughout, plate at pg154 partially detached with failed attempts at yellowing tape repairs)

PUBLISHER: William Tegg 1868

KEYWORDS: literature history Baron Munchausen

BLACKHAM, Colonel ROBERT J

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt masonic illus to front board, frontispiece, 288pp, illus, VG- (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, 3.5cm crack to top hinge of spine/front board, heavy fading to spine & boards, light soiling with some water staining to front hinge, moderate tanning to page edgesprev. owner's name & prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, extensive synopsis pasted to front eps - possibly from absent dust jacket, sm ink numerals to prelims, moderate cracking to gutters, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages- text block mostly unaffected, illus with sm ink inscription pasted to verso of contents page)

PUBLISHER: Rider & Co 1933

KEYWORDS: freemasons freemasonry masonic secret societies rites history

SHEEHAN, PAUL

Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 237pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to board extrems & edges, minor bruising to boards, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's catalogue number unobtrusive in pen to fep.) in d/w, VG+ (in removable plastic cover, light creasing to edges, light discolouration to spine)

PUBLISHER: Transpress 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand aviation history Air NZ aircraft aeroplanes design engineering civil

SINGH, MALVIKA & MUKHERJEE, RUDRANGSHU & KAPOOR, PRAMOD (Concept & Visual Research)

FIRST EDITION, square quarto, white heavy boards, copper gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 237pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to board edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Lustre Press / Roli Books 2009

KEYWORDS: India history culture buildings infrastructure capital cities New Delhi development first editions

BEST, ELSDON

Super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp profile/portrait to front board, xv + 459pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light foxing to rear eps & terminals)

PUBLISHER: A R Shearer, Gov't Printer 1975

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Maori culture villages anthropology pre-European pre-colonial Elsdon Best

BURGESS, R W & CLEW, J R

Super octavo, black faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 288pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to board edges, moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, light wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Foulis / Haynes 1981

KEYWORDS: automotive history transport motorcycles motor cycles bikes Velocette design development

BARKAN, LEONARD

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 291pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate tanning to spine)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1975

KEYWORDS: first editions human anatomy art history image

HAZLITT, W CAREW

Octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt rule to boards, teg, frontispiece, xviii + 554pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to spine, moderate staining & chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light to moderate occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Swan Sonnenschein & Co 1893

KEYWORDS: antiques coins Europe European catalogues history historical mint

HUFFMAN, MICKEY

NUMBERED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR (#92), octavo, white light card covers, black lettering to spine, 78pp, illus/photos, VG (light curling to cover edges, light to moderate foxing & light chafing to covers, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Promethian Press N/D (c.1990)

KEYWORDS: antiques guides badges politics political Adolf Hitler authentication military war history signed numbered editions Mickey Huffman

SMILES, SAMUEL

SPINE PARTIALLY DETACHED BUT BINDING SOUND, octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration & black rule to front board, frontispiece, ix + 389pp, illus, G+ (spine brittle/cracking & partially detached & flapping, moderate scuffing to extrems, light soiling & chafing to front board, heavy scuffing & minor surface loss to rear board, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, ffep missing, light soiling to eps, prev. owner's name & ink stamp to full title page, some minor ink annotation & underlining to contents page & prelims, occasional moderate crackinglight to moderate soiling & foxing to terminals with ex-libris ink stamp also).

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1874

KEYWORDS: civil engineering engineers biography bridges smeaton rennie lighthouses harbours design construction history

BASSETT-POWELL, BRUCE

Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 373pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl rubbing to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning to spine, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Casemate 2013

KEYWORDS: military history Prussia Prussian army Otto von Bismarck 19th nineteenth century

FLINT, BRIAN

Imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiii + 164pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate water damage to base of page block & boards- boards lightly warped & stained, light tanning & foxing/water staining to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, otherwise still a tidy copy) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing, moderate damp wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 1979

KEYWORDS: England English history natural resources energy windmills Suffolk East Anglia

BEST, ELSDON

Super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp profile/portarit to front board, xii + 116pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing to board edges, sl chafing & soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: A R Shearer, Gov't Printer 1974

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Elsdon Best Maori buildings culture structures

MASSE, Lieut.-Col C H & LAWSON, C C P (Illus)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xvi + 116pp, illus, VG (moderate bruising to board edges & corners, light staining to spine & rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine & edges with minor loss & tidy archival tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Gale and Polden 1948

KEYWORDS: British army military history supply transport services service corps first editions

ALLEN, Lieut.-Col S S

FIRST EDITION, FOLDING MAPS AT REAR, INSCRIBED & SIGNED FROM THE AUTHOR, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 188pp, VG+ (minor rubbing to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1920

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war Auckland France French campaigns first editions

ALLEN, C E 'TITCH'

Imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 229pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, minor adhesion to pages) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to front, sl tanning & foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Amulree Publications 1994

KEYWORDS: automotive motorbikes motorcycles Velocette British engineering design history

RHODES, IVAN

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, imperial octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Osprey 1997

KEYWORDS: signed Ivan Rhodes automotive motorbikes motorcycles Velocette British engineering design history

ULOTH, GERALD

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt military insignia to front board, illus eps, viii + 184pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & discolouration to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & moderatre soiling)

PUBLISHER: Monks 1993

KEYWORDS: first editions 28th light cavalry Indian Army military history

LOCKHART, W E

Square duodecimo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, blind stamp motif to rear board, single large folded illus- cloth backed, VG (moderate scuffing to board extrems, moderate to heavy chafing & discolouration to boards, moderate foxing & discolouration to eps & back sides of illus, minor weakening & scuffing to folds/creases of illus, light staining to illus)

PUBLISHER: William Doig & Co 1887

KEYWORDS: English monarchy jubilee ceremony Queen Victoria history queens Westminster Abbey guests names

WESTON, Lt.-Col. C H

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown buckram boards, black lettering to spine, blind rule to front board, frontispiece, maps to prelims, 256pp, illus/photos, G+ (heavy scuffing to spine- 2cm loss to base of spine, moderate cracking to hinges, moderate scuffing & bruising to board extrems, heavy staining to spine & boards, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional cracking to gutters, moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Skeffington & Son N/D

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