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The Women of Rothschild
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: John Murray 2021
KEYWORDS: aristocracy elite families Rothschild family history women dynasties
The Growth of New Zealand Towns: A Historical and Current Survey of the Development of 64 Towns and Cities, with a Glimpse of Future Changes
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hugh Dickey 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand towns cities development surveys history growth urban infrastructure
The City of Auckland New Zealand, 1840-1920; Preceded by A Maori History of the Auckland Isthmus (Capper Reprint)
CAPPER REPRINT, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1985 ( Reprint of Whitcombe & Tombs 1922)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Auckland Tamaki Makaurau Maori city cities
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Icon Books 2022
KEYWORDS: history historical travel writing literature South Pacific region Pitcairn Island mutineers HMS Bounty maritime nautical crime
The Reality of War: A Memoir of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune (1870-1) by a French Officer
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Co 2001
KEYWORDS: Franco-Prussian war history 19th nineteenth century Paris commune
The Winds of Change: Norfolk Island 1950-1982
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific 1983
KEYWORDS: history Norfolk Island development late 20th twentieth century
Windmills of England
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1976
KEYWORDS: England English windmills rural villages towns design history historical buildings
Imperial Porcelain
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: St Petersburg Orchestra Publishers 2009
KEYWORDS: fine china ceramics history antiques artefacts imperial Russia Russian
Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Adventures Unlimited Press 1996
KEYWORDS: mythology esoteric political history occult philosophy
Letters to Camondo
FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 2021
KEYWORDS: letters correspondence Edmund de Waal literature history autobiographical first editions
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of New Zealand for the Year 1926-27
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: R W Bro Colonel George Barclay 1928
KEYWORDS: New Zealand secret societies freemasons freemasonry masonic grand lodge proceedings history
Brown and the Elms
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Elms Trust 1984
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlers Brown family Elms
The Art of Angling, as Practised in Scotland
Sm 8vo, green cl bds, gilt lettering to spine, blind decorations to bds, paper label to front board, illus. tp, iv + 164 pp., illus., VG- (heavy scuffing/creasing & moderate soiling to bds, sl tearing to cl of joints, moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to pg edges & eps/prelims/terminals, light creasing to paper at central gutters).
PUBLISHER: W. & R. Chambers, 19 Waterloo Place; and Orr and Smith, London 1836
KEYWORDS: angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen Scotland Scottish trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game
Alphabet of Scientific Angling, For the Useof Beginners
Sm 8vo, brown cl bds, paper label to front board, illus. tp, xviii + 138 pp., illus., VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing/fading & soiling to bds, moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges, light to moderate soiling & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev owner's inscription & prev bookseller's label to front pastedown, prev owner's inscription to ffep, light to moderate foxing throughout, light creasing to paper at central gutters, moderate cracking to central gutters).
PUBLISHER: William Orr, 14, Paternoster Row 1833
KEYWORDS: angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game
Notes of a Fly Fisher: an Attempt at a Grammar of the Art for Beginners: with Hints on Health
Sm 8vo, blue cl bds, gilt lettering to spine & front board, pg edges stained blue, marbled eps, 191 pp., illus., VG- (light to moderate soiling & scuffing to bds, light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanning & soiling to pg edges, moderate cracking to front hinges & central gutters, light foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: The Fishing Gazette 1927
KEYWORDS: angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game
Salmonia: Or Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations. With Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo.
Sm 8vo, half-bound in black filleted brown leather with red cl bds, 5 sm raised bands & gilt lettering to spine, teg, marbled eps, x + 335 pp., illus., VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds, light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanning & soiling/foxing to pg edges & eps/prelims/terminals, bookplate to front pastedown, prev owner's inscriptions to front eps, moderate ink stains to tp & ht verso, light foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: John Murray, Albemarle-Street 1829
KEYWORDS: angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game
The Art of Angling
Sm 8vo, quater-bound blind filleted black leather with marbled bds, gilt lettering & rules to spine, yellow eps, [3] + 40 pp. + [3] pp. advts., VG (light soiling & scuffing to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanning/soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps/prelims/terminals, light foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: J. H. Burn, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden 1820
KEYWORDS: angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game 16th century
Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by an Old Angler and Bibliopolist
Sm 8vo, half-bound in black filleted leather with orange/rust cl bds, 5 raised bands & gilt lettering & rules to spine--red label to section 2, marbeled eps, frontis., illus., tp, VG (light scuffing to bds, sl bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims/terminals, sl foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: William Pickering 1835
KEYWORDS: anecdotes angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game 16th century
The Vade-Mecum of Fly-Fishing for Trout: Being a Complete Practical Treatise on that Brance of the Art of Angling; with Plain and Copious Instructions for the Manufacture of Artifical Flies
Sm 8vo, green paneled cl bds with both tooled & embossed decorations to bds & spine, gilt lettering to spine, yelloe eps, xii + 186 pp.+ [2] pp. advts., VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds & spine, light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping to spine, moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges, light to moderate cracking to rear gutters, light foxing throghout).
PUBLISHER: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1851
KEYWORDS: anecdotes angling fishing angler fisherman fishermen trout salmon history 19th century river stream sport game
Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture
Ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1986
KEYWORDS: food culture culinary anthropology history customs beliefs
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