EDENS-MEIER, RETHA (Ed) & BERNHARDT, PETER (Ed)

Super octavo, dark brown heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 419pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling & warping to boards) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 2014

KEYWORDS: Charles Darwin botany plants orchids nature biology history historical

COSSONS, NEIL

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 496pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & tanning/fading to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1975

KEYWORDS: first editions history historical excavations BP industrial revolution archeology archaeology industrialisation

MEINIG, D W

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering & rule to spine, xxi + 576pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of ffep) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, light fading to spine, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 1968

KEYWORDS: first editions history geography landscape Great Columbia Plain agriculture horticulture US America American

AILSBY, CHRISTOPHER & ANGOLIA, Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret) JOHN R (Fore)

Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl tanning to eps) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to front)

PUBLISHER: Patrick Stephens 1987

KEYWORDS: military history combat medals nazi Germany German third reich iron cross war memorabilia antiques collectables collectibles militaria

CANNELL, FENELLA (Ed)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, unpaginated prelims + 373pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light fading to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's ink stamp to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: anthropology religion religious Christian Christianity ethnology culture history historical ethnography

GRIEVE, HILDA & SPARKE, P A (Maps Drawn by)

FOLDING MAP AT REAR POCKET, tidy ex-libray, imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 883pp, illus/photos, VG (usual library markings, moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, minor tape staining to board edges & eps, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to rear gutter, light foxing to rear eps) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light to moderate wrinkling & chafing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: County Council of Essex 1959

KEYWORDS: Great Britain England British English history flooding disaster floods Essex 20th twentieth century natural disasters

DE TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXIS & REEVE, HENRY (Text) & BOWEN, FRANCIS (Revised by) & BRADLEY, PHILLIPS (Intro, Ed Notes & Bibliographies by)

2 VOL SET, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt decoration/illus to spines & front boards, deckled page fore-edges, illus title pages, vol 1- cxiv + 434pp + index to rear, vol 2- xiii + 401pp + index to rear, VG+ (light rubbing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning to spine & flaps, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 1980

KEYWORDS: US America American history politics political democracy Henry Reeve text federal constitution government

TILLYARD, STELLA

IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus front board, frontispiece, xvi + (6) + 425pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Folio Society 2007

KEYWORDS: folio society history aristocrats aristocracy nobility nobles families Caroline Emily Louisa Sarah Lennox family English British

MEIER, CHRISTIAN & JONES, PETER (Intro) & McLINTOCK, DAVID (Trans)

IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, green cloth boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, copper gilt portrait of Julius Caesar to front board, illus/printed epa & title page, ix + 507pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising & fading to edges)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1998

KEYWORDS: ancient history Rome Roman leaders republic biography biographies politics political war Julius Caesar folio society

BULEY, R CARLYLE

2 VOL SET, super octavo, beige cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- xvi + 632pp, vol 2- x + 686pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to spines & extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm labels to base of rear pastedowns, minor staining/soiling to rear eps) in slipcase, VG- (heavy scuffing & cracking to joins)

PUBLISHER: Indianan University Press 1962

KEYWORDS: US America American history old northwest pioneers pioneer period early 19th nineteenth century

WRIGHT, MATTHEW

Quarto, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, white & green lettering to spine, 488pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to page edges, light chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated history histories Alexander Turnbull Library

O'MALLEY, VINCENT

Imperial octavo, illus stiff card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 439pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover corners, light chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2021

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Vincent O'Malley wars Maori pakeha early settlers

LOCKE, CYBELE

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 412pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2022

KEYWORDS: New Zealand trade union history Bill Andersen biography biographies memoir labour work force labor

FRAME, MURRAY

Octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 214pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: McFarland & Company 2000

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history theater theatre St Petersburg imperial early 20th twentieth century revolution

STEWARD, DAN B & PANISZCZYN, FRANK (Ed)

Quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, black lettering to spine & boards, unpaginated prelims + 202pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: The Fort Worth Geological Society / The North Texas Geological Society 2007

KEYWORDS: US American history north Texas Fort Worth basin geology oil gas energy resources geochemical

GLOVER, DENIS

FIRST EDITION, octavo, illus stapled light card covers, red lettering to front cover, illus title page, unpaginated, VG (light to moderate tanning & foxing to cover edges, minor scuffing & tearing to staples/spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1944

KEYWORDS: first editions military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 d day landings Normandy anecdotes Denis Glover

RAINE, KATHLEEN

FIRST EDITION, octavo, stapled blue light card covers, blue lettering to front cover, 25pp, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to spine & edges, sl foxing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Golgonooza Press 1979

KEYWORDS: first editions art history biographies memoir English painters Cecil Collins Kathleen Raine

HOLDER, CHARLES FREDERICK

FULL LEATHER BINDING, LIMITED EDITION- THIS COPY UNNUMBERED BUT ONE OF 500, quarto, blue full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt lettering & rule with illus to front board, aeg, marbled eps, x + (2) + 385pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Derrydale Press 1998

KEYWORDS: blue water classics full leather bindings limited editions fishing angling sea US America American waters history

DE RIDDER, A & DEONNA, W

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) lacks 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co1927

KEYWORDS: grecian art ancient greek archaeology history

TREVELYAN, GEORGE OTTO

TWO VOLUME SET, super octavo hardcover (VG-) lacks 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1876

KEYWORDS: lord macauley life letters memoir history