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Western Heritage: A Study of the Colonial Architecture of Perth, Western Australia


OLDHAM, RAY & JOHN

Imp. 8vo, pp. [12] + 104; tan cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; illus. eps, frontis., photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to ht); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping, esp to spine extrems; light tanning; sm open tear to spine).

PUBLISHER: Lamb Publications 1967

KEYWORDS: Ray John Oldham colonial heritage history Perth Western Australia Australian architecture colonialization

$40.00
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Illustrated Maps of Scotland: From Blaeu's Atlas Novus of the 17th Century


STONE, JEFFREY

Fol., 95; green heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; spine lightly cocked; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Studio Editions 1991

KEYWORDS: Jeffrey Stone Scotland Scottish maps history

$40.00
2s9c/11

Oriental Carpets: Their Iconology and Iconography from Earliest Times to the 18th Century


GANTHORN, VOLKMAR

4to, pp. 532; red heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt, motif to front board in white; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Taschen 1998

KEYWORDS: Colkmar Ganthorn oriental Asia central Asian ancient history art craft design Armenia Armenian carpet carpets

$75.00
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Information Graphics


RENDGEN, SANDRA & WIEDEMANN, ED JULIUS

Fol., 480; black heavy card boards, spine & front board lettered in blind; frontis., illus. tp & illus. prelims, photos, illus., pp. 97 ff. larger sized paper than pp. 1-96, foldout plates, coloured pg edges; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl water damage to rear); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems;

PUBLISHER: Taschen 2012

KEYWORDS: Sandra Rendgen Julius Weidemann information graphics informatics visual history development essays

$150.00
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Patterns of Fashion 3: The cut and construction of clothes for men and women, c1560-1620


ARNOLD, JANET

This volume only. Obl fol., pp. 128; illus. light wrappers; photos, illus.; VG (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to prelims & terminals; wrappers sl wraped).

PUBLISHER: Quite Specific Media 1985

KEYWORDS: Janet Arnold 16th 17th century clothing fashion history costume tailor tailoring clothes

$47.50
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The Making of Scotland: A Comprehensive Guide to the Growth of its Cities, Towns and Villages


SMITH, ROBIN

Heavy. Imp. 8vo, pp. xxxii + 992; blue heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate to heavy cracking to front & rear hinges, bdg sloppy); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; moderate tanning & foxing; prev bookseller's sticker to rear cover).

PUBLISHER: Canongate 2001

KEYWORDS: Robin Smith Scotland Scottish history development guide handbook cities city towns villages

$45.00
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Flying Navy: The Story of New Zealanders Who Flew in the Fleet Air Arm in World War I and World War II and the Roll of Honour of Those Who Died in Action and on Active Service


ALLISON, DAVID

OWNERSHIP OF FORMER DIRECTOR OF AUCKLAND WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 320pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light creasing to rear cover, sl chafing to covers, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, aforementioned prev. owner's name in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Fleet Air Arm Museum of New Zealand 2009

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history aviation Fleet Air Arm soldiers roll of honour honor 20th twentieth century FAA RNAS Royal Navy Air Service

$45.00
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The Second Schelswig War: A Guide to the German - Danish War of 1864


SMITH, NIGEL J

Quarto, light card covers- front cover illus & laminated, black clasp to spine, 62pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to front cover, minor creasing & soiling to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Pickelhaube Press 1995

KEYWORDS: German Danish war history 19th nineteenth century second 2nd Schleswing

$55.00
1a4a/11

The Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm


STURTIVANT, RAY

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 544pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & moderate rubbing to board edges/extrems, binding a little sloppy, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, prev. owners' names/labels to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy wrinkling/creasing, moderate chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light tanning, light foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Air-Britain (Historians) 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history aviation Fleet Air Arm squadrons aerial aircraft carriers naval navy

$40.00
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Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915


A NURSING SISTER

Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 154pp, VG+ (prev. bookseller's label to rear board, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine, minor internal foxing)

PUBLISHER: Leonaur 2011

KEYWORDS: military history women nursing nurses ww1 dirst 1st world war one i 1 the great war dairies journals

$85.00
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Mawson's Huts: The Birthplace of Australia's Antarctic Heritage


JENSEN, DAVID

INSCRIBED & SIGNE DBY AUTHOR, square quarto, illus light card covers, beige & white lettering to spine & covers, frontispiece, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing to covers, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2014

KEYWORDS: signed David Jensen south pole antarctica Mawson's huts Australia Australian expeditions exploration Dr Douglas Mawson history historical

$70.00
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The World Through the Eyes of Folk Artists: Ukrainian Folk Painting of the 13th-20th Centuries


SVIENTSITSK, V I & OTKOVYCH, V P

TEXT IN CYRILLIC, WITH BOOKLET OF FRENCH & GERMAN TRANSLATIONS, lg quarto, brown heavy boards, yellow lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to base of spine, numerous page corners folded) in d/w, VG (light creasing & occasioanl closed tearing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Mystetskvo, Kiev 1991

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN CYRILLIC Ukraine Ukrainian art history folk painting

$45.00
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: Traveller and Plant Collector


DESMOND, RAY & PRANCE, Sir GHILLEAN (Preface)

Quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 286pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name (Davd Galloway) in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's sm labels to front cover, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Antique Collector's Club / Royal Botanic Gardens 2006

KEYWORDS: plants botany explorers Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker exploration travel history

$50.00
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The Correspondence of Julius Haast and Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1861-1886


NOLDEN, SASCHA & NATHAN, SIMON & MILDENHALL, ESME

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, quarto, white light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 219pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl tanning to spine, light soiling to covers, minor annotation to text/margins)

PUBLISHER: Geoscience Society of New Zealand 2013

KEYWORDS: signed letters correspondence history historical 19th nineteenth century Julius Haast Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker geoscience nature plants botany botanical

$100.00
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Theories of the Earth and Universe: A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences


CAREY, S WARREN

Super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xviii + 413pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name (David Galloway) in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: science theory natural history geology planet earth

$40.00
2s9c/35

Greymouth Street Names: A Short History


BUCKLEY, FRANCES (ed)

4to, 57; illus. light card covers, spiral bound; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Grey District Library 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand local history Greymouth street names Frances Buckley

$57.50
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Great Flower Books 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books


SITWELL, SACHEVERELL & BLUNT, WILFRID

Quarto, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 189pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & discolouration to board edges/extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name (David Galloway) in pencil to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine & edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: H F & G Witherby 1990

KEYWORDS: botany botanical books flowers history historical bibliography bibliographies catalogues

$70.00
1a4a/45

The Birth of a District: A History of Otapiri, Lora Gorge, Benmore and Kuana


OVERTON, J NIGEL

NO D/W, SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, printed/maps to eps, 211pp, illus, VG (binding a little sloppy, light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, sl fading to spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges, vertical creasing to half title page, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page)

PUBLISHER: Mr J Nigel Overton 1984

KEYWORDS: signed J Nigel Overton New Zealand history early settlers pioneers Otapiri Lora Gorge Benmore Kuana

$40.00
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Seeking a New Land: Quakers in New Zealand: A Volume of Biographical Sketches


BRODIE, JAMES and AUDREY (Eds)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 200pp, illus, VG+ (light chafing & curling to covers/edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Beechtree Press 1993

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history religion religious settlers quakers

$80.00
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Reminiscences of a New Chum in Otago (New Zealand) in the Early 'Seventies


SCOTT, Hy [HENRY]

In tidy blue home-made sleeve/jacket with stiff board inserts by a prev. owner, octavo, brown light card covers, black lettering to front cover, decorated border to title page, 86pp, VG (light to moderate creasing to brown covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, some minor rusting & tearing at staples, prev. owner's name (David Galloway) in ink to title page, page removed from prelims, minor cracking at rear gutter, minor vertical creasing to whole page block)

PUBLISHER: The Timaru Herald Co 1922

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Otago 19th nineteenth century Henry Scott

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