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$40.00
ak1/3b/18

Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art


WINTERNITZ, EMANUEL

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 240pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, light creasing & moderate chipping to edges, light to moderate rubbing & surface loss, light foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1967

KEYWORDS: first editions music musical instruments history historic symbolism western art criticism intepretation appreciation

$40.00
ak1/3b/19

The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Introductory Study (Second Edition)


RUSSELL, RAYMOND & SCHOTT, HOWARD (Revised by)

REVISED EDITION, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained yellow, unpaginated prelims + 208pp + 103 plates to rear- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light rubbing & discolouration to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to apge edges & eps, occasional sl foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate tanning, chafing & foxing, moderate foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1973

KEYWORDS: revised edtion music history harpsichords clavichords early keyboards instruments classical

$60.00
ak1/3b/24

Beyond Metaphysics? The Hermeneutic Circle in Contemporary Continental Philosophy


LLEWELYN, JOHN

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 238pp, VG+ (boards sl warped, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & fading to spine, light chafing to covers, light tanning to rear)

PUBLISHER: Humanities Press / Macmillan 1985

KEYWORDS: philosophy metaphysics history hermeneutic existentialism ontology phenomenology

$40.00
ak1/3b/25

The Art of the Intelligible: An Elementary Survey of Mathematics in its Conceptual Development


BELL, JOHN L

MISBOUND: pages 229 onwards not included, comprising Appendix 4, bibliography and indices, main text present); Super octavo, white glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, xi + 228pp, illus/diagrams, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling & tanning to covers, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001

KEYWORDS: mathematics algebra geometry history calculus philosophy theorems

$60.00
ak1/3b/26

History, Imagination and the Performance of Music


WALLS, PETER

Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 184pp, Near Fine (sl staining/soiling to top edges of page block) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to edges)

PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 2003

KEYWORDS: music history performance entertainment

$78.50
ak1/3b/33

The Land, the Bible and History: Toward the Land That I Will Show You


MARCHADOUR, ALAIN & NEUHAUS, DAVID

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, red gilt lettering to black cloth spine, xiii + 239pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Fordham University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: religion ancient religious history biblical lands Israel antiquity contemporary church Palestine geography geopolitics

$40.00
ak1/3b/34

Ignacy Jan Paderewski: A Pianist Amongst the Geysers


DRECKI, JACEK ROMAN

Octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiv + 186pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Quo Vadis 2018

KEYWORDS: New Zealand music musical history Ignacy Jan Paderewski musicians piano pianists

$80.00
ak1/10a/4

Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970


WITTNER, LAWRENCE S

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiv + 641pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: signed Lawrence S Wittner nuclear bombs peace history disarmament antinuclear movement politics political

$95.00
ak1/10a/16

Encyclopaedia of Papua and New Guinea (3 Vol Set)


RYAN, PETER (General Editor)

3 VOL SET, imperial octavo, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt cultural motif to front boards, mixed pagination, folding map to rear pocket of vol 3, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light fading to edges of eps, light foxing & soiling to prelims, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear ep of vol 3, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page of vol 2)

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press / University of Papua and New Guinea 1972

KEYWORDS: encyclopedia encyclopaedia Papua New Guinea history culture heritage antiquity geopolitics

$45.00
ak1/10a/18

Eighty Years On: A Further Memoir


TARLING, NICHOLAS

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus light card covers, white & brown lettering to spine, 375pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Publishing 2010

KEYWORDS: signed Nicholas Tarling New Zealand history autobiography autobiogarphies memoir

$40.00
ak1/11a/13

The Future of Jazz


FRIEDWALD, WILL et al & TAYLOR, YUVAL (Ed)

Octavo, illus lgossy light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, ix + 241pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers/edges, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: A Cappella Books 2002

KEYWORDS: music jazz theory philosophy history criticism

$60.00
ak1/11a/19

Propertius I


BAKER, ROBERT J (Trans, Intro, Commentary & Latin Text by)

WARMLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, ix + 241pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of New England 1990

KEYWORDS: signed latin texts Robert J Baker ancient history literature Sextus Propertius Rome Roman antiquity elegies

$40.00
ak1/15a/1

Cezanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form with Diagrams and Photographs of His Motifs


LORAN, ERLE

Lg quarto, grey buckram boards, black lettering to red buckram spine, black lettering & illus to front board, unpaginated prelims + 143pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & extrems, light soiling to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, moderate but light/unobtrusive pencil underlining & annotation, minor wrinkling to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1963

KEYWORDS: Cezanne art history criticism appreciation interpretation

$50.00
ak1/15a/5

Central Asian Music: Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the USSR


BELIAEV, VIKTOR M & SLOBIN, MARK (Ed & Annotated) & SLOBIN, MARK and GRETA (Trans)

Imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 340pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Wesleyan University Press 1975

KEYWORDS: music history criticism soviet Russia Russian Asia

$175.00
ak1/15a/8

Italy: Handbook for Travellers


BAEDEKER, K

Sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule/decoration to spine & boards, marbled page edges, printed front eps, illus/map to rear eps, folding maps throughout, lxii + 464pp, illus/maps, VG- (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine, moderate tanning/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- rear board shaky, minor closed tearing to folding maps)

PUBLISHER: Karl Baedeker 1892

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing Italy maps historical historic history travelling guides

$145.00
ak1/15a/9

Central Africa: Adventures and Missionary Labors in Several Countries in the Interior of Africa, from 1849 to 1856


BOWEN, T J

LACKS FEP, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & decoration to boards, 359pp + 7pp to rear, VG- (moderate scuffing & chipping to board & spine edges/extrems, sl chafing to boards, heavy tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name -historic- to front pastedown, ffep missing & top half of prelim pg missing, sm pink pencil cross to top corner of title page, minor foxing throughout, moderate cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Southern Baptist Publication Society 1857

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature central Africa 19th nineteenth century history historical accounts missionaries T J Bowen

$40.00
ak1/15a/12

From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism: Popular Music and Australian Culture from the 1960s to the 1990s


HAYWARD, PHILIP (Ed)

Octavo, illus light card covers, blue lettering to spine, xi + 188pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, light soiling & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1992

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian popular culture music history late 20th twentieth century

$45.00
ak1/15a/18

A Medical Emergency: Major-General Ginger Burston and the Army Medical Service in World War II


HOWIE-WILLIS, IAN

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, LOOSELY ENCLOSED PRINTED SIGNED LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 487pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Big Sky Publishing 2012

KEYWORDS: signed Ian Howie-Willis medical officers military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Major-General Ginger Burston biography biographies memoir

$40.00
ak1/15a/19

The Oxford Companion to Australian Music


BEBBINGTON, WARREN (Ed)

Imperial octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xvi + 608pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: music history Australia Australian musical heritage companion performers entertainment dictionary

$55.00
2f33a/8

Endless Sotry: Being an Account of the Work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-leaders, Torpedo-Boats and Patrol Boats in the Great War


DORLING, Captain TAPRELL (TAFFRAIL); PEARS, CHARLES (illus.)

Demy 8vo, pp. 450; white/blue cl bds, spine & front board lettered in blue, front board bordered in blue; frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping & moderate to heavy archival repairs; hole to back; moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1933

KEYWORDS: First World War 1 I WW WW1 WWI war warfare ships navy naval boat 20th century Europe military history

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