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$195.00
ak2/13a/42

The Discovery of Tahiti: A Journal of the Second Voyage of HMS Dolphin Round the World, Under the Command of Captain Wallis, RN, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768


WALLIS, Captain & ROBERTSON, GEORGE & CARRINGTON, HUGH (Ed)

LACKS D/W, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, folding frontipiece, illus/folding maps, lii + 292pp, illus, VG- (moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, sl chafing to front board, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, minor scuffing & surface loss to front pastedown, heavy crack to gutter nr front, light cracking occasionally throughout, rear index page lightly torn at top with some minor loss, some terminal pages potentially missing)

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press 1948

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society exploration voyages history historical accounts HMS Dolphin Tahiti 18th eighteenth century journals Captain Wallis

$200.00
ak2/13a/45

The Levant Voyage of the Blackham Galley (1696-1698): The Sea Journal of John Looker, Ship's Surgeon


LOOKER, JOHN & HEYWOOD, COLIN (Ed) & SMITH, EDMOND (Ed)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, xvi + 248pp, illus/maps, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Routledge 2022

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society Levant voyage Blackham Galley exploration voyages John Looker 17th seventeenth century journals diaries history

$100.00
ak2/13a/46

The Voyages and Manifesto of William Fergusson, a Surgeon of the East India Company 1731-1739


ELLIOTT, DEREK L (Ed)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, frontispiece, xviii + 185pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Routledge 2021

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history exploration voyages East Indai Company William Fergusson ship surgeons 18th eighteenth century

$40.00
ak2/18a/2

Joao Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan


COOPER, MICHAEL (Ed)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, frontispiece, xli + 428pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2001

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history exploration Joao Rodrigues 16th sixetenth century Japan voyages

$195.00
ak2/18a/3

English Travellers to Venice 1450-1600


BRENNAN, MICHAEL G (Ed)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, frontispiece, xxxiv + 433pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Routledge 2022

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history exploration adventures English Venice 15th 16th fifteenth sixteenth century Italy

$40.00
ak2/18a/5

Labour of Love: Childbirth at Dunedin Hospital 1862-1972


WASSNER, ADELHEID

Quarto, illus brown light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, 294pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl soiling to page edges, sm newspaper clipping & prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Adelheid Wassner 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Dunedin Hospital childbirth birthing units medical

$75.00
ak2/18a/7

The Doctrine of the Nerves: Chapters in the History of Neurology


SPILLANE, JOHN D

Imperial octavo, bue buckram board, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 467pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (lighto to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, sl chafing, sl tanning to flaps, sm adhesive labels to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: medical neurology history nerves

$48.50
ak2/18a/14

When the Smoke Clears: A History of the Timaru Fire Brigade 1864-1995


THE TIMARU FIRE BRIGADE CLUB

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#95/500), octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 145pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate fading)

PUBLISHER: The Timaru Fire Brigade Club 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand emergency services fire service brigade Timaru history

$350.00
ak2/18a/25

Rural Sports, Volume 2 (Parts I + II) and Supplement Volume (3 Vol Set)


DANIEL, Rev Wm B (BARKER, WILLIAM)

REBOUND 3 VOL SET- volume 2 only- bound as 2 vols plus supplement volume, super octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, red speckling to page edges, modern eps, part 1- (6) + 378pp, part 2- (10) + 354pp, supp. vol- (14) + 742pp + index to rear, frontispiece to supplement vol, illus, VG (moderate rubbing/scuffing & bruising to spines & board edges & extrems- some surface loss, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to front gutters of parts 1 & 2, moderate foxing throughout, light chafing to boards- minor surface loss)

PUBLISHER: Philanthropic Society (Printer) 1812-13

KEYWORDS: rural sports angling fly fishing flyfishing hobbies historical history

$40.00
ak2/18a/27

Dunedin: Early Photographs (First Series from the Hardwicke Knight Collection)


KNIGHT, HARDWICKE

FIRST SERIES, tidy ex-library, oblong quarto, illus spiral bound light card covers, red lettering to covers, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (minimal library markings, light to moderate creasing & soiling to covers, light tanning)

PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand heritage Dunedin Hardwicke Knight art photos photography history historical

$45.00
ak2/18a/30

The Story of the Arab Legion


GLUBB, Brigadier JOHN BAGOT

Octavo, orange buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt military insignia to front board, to ppage edges stained red, illus/maps to eps, frontispiece, 371pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & moderate fading to spine & board extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. booksellers' markings to front eps) in d/w, G+ (heavy chipping/tearing & loss to spine & edges- clear tape repairs, minor chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1948

KEYWORDS: military history Arab legion middle east

$100.00
ak2/18a/33

Mac's Memoirs: The Flying Life of Squadron-Leader McGregor


CUNNINGHAM, G H

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, octavo, blue leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to front board, top page edges stained blue- faded, frontispiece, 160pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, moderate fading to spine extrems, light chafing & discolouration to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, occasional foxing throughout, jacket taped to front board) in d/w, G+ (jacket taped to front board with front flap detached but present, heavy loss & tape repair/reinforcement to edges, light to moderate tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed N/D (c.1937?)

KEYWORDS: signed limited editions G H Cunningham biography biographies memoir Squadron-Leader McGregor military history aviation New Zealand

$50.00
ak2/18a/35

Chinese Art Motives


TREDWELL, WINIFRED REED (Interpreted by)

LACKS D/W, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 110pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning & soiling to eps, ex-libris plate & prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: G P Putnam's Sons 1915

KEYWORDS: art history China Chinese interpretation criticism

$45.00
ak2/18a/36

Pfaltzgraff: America's Potter


WALSH, DAVID A (Researched & Compiled by) & STETLER, POLLY (Researched & Compiled by)

Square super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 128pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- sl loss, light fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Pfaltzgraff Co 1989

KEYWORDS: Pfaltzgraff pottery potters art history crafts

$195.00
ak2/18a/38

Life and Works of Robert Burns: Critical and Analytical Edition


WADDELL, P HATELY

Heavy quarto, half leather bound green buckram boards, gilt lettering/tooling & raised bands to spine, gilt lettering & illus to front board, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, mixed pagination, illus, VG (moderate rubbing & bruising to leatherwork with some surface loss, light chafing & soiling to boards, heavy cracking at front gutter, light to moderate soiling throughout, frontis tissue guard & rear ep missing, heavy cracking to rear gutter, annotation in ink to terminal page)

PUBLISHER: David Wilson 1881

KEYWORDS: Robert Burns literature poets poetry verse poems Scotland Scottish literary biography criticism history historical

$175.00
2e9a/7

Alonso Victor de Paredes' Institution, and the Origin of the Art of Printing, and General Rules for Compositors [Madrid: ca. 1680]


DE PAREDES, ALONSO VICTOR; ALVAREZ, PABLO (ed); CRUICKSHANK, DON W (forew)

Imp. 8vo, pp. xvi + 449; black buckram bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; frontis., photos, illus.; NF (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor tanning & soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; sl bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: The Legacy Press 2018

KEYWORDS: Alonso Victor de Paredes Pablo Alvarez 18th century printing publishing history methods techniques book arts design letterpress bibliography

$45.00
2e9a/8

The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces


BERRY, W TURNER & JOHNSON, A F & JASPERT, W P

Super 8vo, pp. 358; blue cl bds, spine lettered in silver gilt, bds lettered in blind; illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's sticker to front pastedown; bdg sl sloppy; peeled sticker to front board; light to moderate tanning throughout); in d/w, VG- (light to moderate fading, scuffing & soiling; mdoerate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping and loss; lg closed tear along fold at spine; sm open tear along fold at spine; moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Blandford Press 1958

KEYWORDS: W Turner Berry A F Johnson w P Jaspert book arts design lettering letters words type faces typefaces printing publishing history bibliography foundry foundries alphabet typography

$37.50
2e9a/18

The History of England from 1485 to 1685


MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON; ROWLAND, PETER (ed)

Super 8vo, pp. xxxiv + 337; green buckram bds, gilt panel spine, front board paneled & decorated in gilt; top edge stained green, frontis., plates; NF (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems); in slipcase; VG+ (minor scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1985

KEYWORDS: Thomas Babington Macaulay England English history 15th 16th 17th century Folio Society

$37.50
xx146pol208956

The Native Americans: An Illustrated History


THOMAS, DAVID HURST et al & JOSEPHY Jr, ALVIN M (Intro) & BALLANTINE, BETTY and IAN (Ed)

Heavy quarto 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: Turner Publishing 1993

KEYWORDS: US America American native Indians history anthropology heritage culture

$34.50
xx146pol208958

500 Nations


JOSEPHY Jr, ALVIN M

Heavy quarto 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: Alfred A Knopf 1994

KEYWORDS: North American Indians native US America history indigenous anthropology heritage

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