HATCH, THOM

Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to red spine, xi + 274pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in protective plastic cover- easilt removed if desired, light creasing to edges, pink staining to rear- on plastic cover only)

PUBLISHER: Stackpole Books 2003

KEYWORDS: US America American civil war history North Indians

LAMEGO, Gen. MIGUEL A SANCHEZ

Octavo, white buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xii + 127pp, illus, VG (light rubbing 7 moderate soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light water staining to top edges of page block)

PUBLISHER: Hill Junior College Press 1972

KEYWORDS: military history US American America Mexico Mexican conflict border wars borders 19th nineteenth century

GIBBON, MONK

FIRST EDITION, light brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 333pp, VG (minor bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, minor creasing to top corners of rear pages) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, price clipped, moderate tanning to flaps & rear)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1968

KEYWORDS: first editions military history soldiers autobiography autobiographies memoir Monk Gibbon British army armed forces defence defense

HAYDON, A L

Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, coloured coat of arms to front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 431pp, illus, G+ (heavy cracking to spine/hinges- spine partially detached, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate rubbing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to rear gutters, numerous sm ex-libris ink stamps throughout, moderate cracking to gutters at front- title page partially detached)

PUBLISHER: Andrew Melrose 1911

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian law enforcement police mounted history early settlers settlements troopers

GARRATT, JOHN G

Imperial octavo, greem buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt soldier motif to front board, 248pp, illus/photos, VG (light rubbing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, 6cm crack to front gutter) in d/w, VG (light creasing & moderate chipping/closed tearing to edges, price clipped, light fading to spine, light chafing, light tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: New York Graphic Society 1972

KEYWORDS: hobbies toys toy soldiers model figures history historical collectables collectibles

MACKAY, DON (Ed) & JONES, Lieutenant General RHYS (Fore)

Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 382pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minor warping/creasing to spine, sl bruising to board edges, light tanning/staining to page edges, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing to edges, light to moderate peeling/wrinkling to covers & spine, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Turnbull Ross Publishing 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Otago Mounted Rifles OMR

CROOK, Major E D (Ed) & MARTEINSON, Major J K (Ed)

Quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt military insignia to front board, illus eps, unpaginated prelims + 343pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, 9cm light crack to front hinge, moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate creasing to bottom corner of pgs 107/108)

PUBLISHER: Brigadier-General S V Radley-Walters 1973

KEYWORDS: military history Canada 8th eighth Canadian Hussars Princess Louise regiments

GADDY, JERRY J (Compiled by) & HEFTER, J (Illus)

Quarto, maroon textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt insignia to front board, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 139pp, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light soiling to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl cracking to gutterslight wrinkling to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG- (light creasing & moderate chipping/closed tearing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Old Army Press 1973

KEYWORDS: US America American history Texas war conflict newspaper reports journalism

BEST, ELSDON

REBACKED TIDY COPY, FIRST EDITION, quarto, brown buckram boards- no exterrnal lettering, viii + 339pp, illus, VG (light to moderate rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, ex-libris plate to verso of title page)

PUBLISHER: The Donimion Museum / Whitcombe and Tombs 1927

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history Maori culture customs villages defence defense Pa Elsdon Best

LACHOUQUE, HENRY & BROWN, ANNE S K (Trans) & CHANDLER, DAVID G (New Intro)

Imperial octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xviii + 564pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing to edges, light fading to spine, moderate wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Arms and Armour Press 1978

KEYWORDS: French war history France Napoleon Bonaparte grand armee leadership military

FUNCKEN, LILIANE and FRED

THIS VOL ONLY, imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & title page, 109pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising to spine & extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, spine sl cocked, light tanning to page edges, occasional light cracking to gutters, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Ward Lock 1981

KEYWORDS: uniforms military history medieval art soldiers castles artillery armour infantry cavalry renaissance slavic oriental

VON DADELSZEN, E J & SEDDON, Honourable R J (Prepared Under Instruction from)

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine & front board, folding map to front, viii + 456pp, VG- (moderate chipping to spine extrems- minor loss to top edge, moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, 3cm crack & heavy tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges, light tanning & foxing with 7cm closed tear to folding map, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Samuel Costall, Gov't Printer 1893

KEYWORDS: New Zealand official yearbooks past years 1893 history historical

N/A

ORIGINAL BINDING, SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION, sm octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards, frontispiece, iv + 424pp, illus, VG- (moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate rubbing & tanning to spine, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims inc. map/frontispiece, minor cracking to gutters, light to moderate foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Charles Knight, Pall Mall East 1830

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history original bindings exploration development early settlers anthropology customs culture Maori

NANSEN, FRIDTJOF & SVERDRUP, OTTO (Appendix)

2 VOL SET, COLONIAL EDITION- NO MAPS OR ILLUS, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, blind decoration to front boards, deckled page edges, vol 1- unpaginated prelims + 351pp, vol 2- vii + 471pp + 8pp catalogue to rear, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & board edges/extrems, light to moderate tanning to spines, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges, ffeps to both vols missing, moderate foxing to eps of both vols, newspaper clipping of author taped to front pastedown of vol 1, light foxing to prelims & terminals of both vols, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1897

KEYWORDS: exploration nautical maritime Fram Dr Nansen Lieutenant Johansen history Fridtjoff Nansen

TANCRED, Hon H J et al (Commissioners)

Octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 79pp, VG- (moderate creasing & closed tearing to spine, moderate creasing & tanning to cover edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to back page, minor cracking to rear gutter, minor loosening at string binding)

PUBLISHER: Lyttelton Times 1864

KEYWORDS: New Zealand education commission reports history historical 19th nineteenth century school schools scholling

BEATTIE, HERRIES

Ex-library, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, 141pp, illus/photos, VG (usual library markings, light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, light soiling to boards, light chafing to front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy tape staining to rear eps)

PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co 1950

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Herries Beattie early settlers pioneers explorers Fiordland

ABBOT, GAVIN M

Quarto, illus light card covers, grey & white lettering to spine, illus title page & prelims, 139pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Gavin M Abbot 2016

KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport history trucks truckers trucking haulage comapnies Gavin M Abbot logging loggers

ABBOT, GAVIN M

Quarto, illus light card covers, grey & white lettering to spine, illus title page & prelims, 157pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Gavin M Abbot 2014

KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport history trucks truckers trucking haulage comapnies Gavin M Abbot logging loggers

HARRIS, PATRICIA and CLIFF (Compiled by) & COOKE, RON (Ed)

Quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, illus title page, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, light chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: C & S Publications 1985

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers early settlers settlements King Country communities Otunui

GATLEY, JULIA (Ed) & TREEP, LUCY (Ed)

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, 273pp + unpaginated terminals, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, sl soiling to boards & page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand schoold school buildings design architecture history Auckland planning development centennial centenary