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$15.00
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Eleanor of Aquitane: A Biography


MEADE, MARION

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: Penguin 1991

KEYWORDS: Eleanor of Aquitane biography biographies memoir history historical

$18.50
xxqej211028

Coaching Days and Accomodating Ways (Canterbury's Old West Coast Road)


McLENNAN, VERA L (Compiled by)

Octavo stapled light card covers (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 Hilton Press N/D (c.1960s?)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Canterbury history Christchurch pioneers early settlers

$15.00
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Toil and Trouble: The Struggle for a Better Life in New Zealand


ROTH, BERT & HAMMOND, JANNY

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: Methuen 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand settlers emigration history pioneers

$32.50
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Bush Carpenters: Pioneer Homes in New Zealand


HAMMOND, JANNY

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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: John McIndoe 1979

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Janny Hammond history pioneer homes houses photos photography Alexander Turnbull library collections

$16.50
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Where Did They Come From? The Polynesians


MITCALFE, BARRY & HOWIE, ALAN (Illus)

Oblong 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: Price Milburn N/D

KEYWORDS: history culture Polynesians travel exploration geography New Zealand

$30.00
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Historiography: Ancient, Medieval & Modern (Third Edition)


BREISACH, ERNST

THIRD EDITION, 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: University of Chicago Press 2007

KEYWORDS: history historiography records recording data research

$16.50
xxqfc211038

The French Book: Religion, Absolutism, and Readership 1585-1715


MARTIN, HENRI-JEAN & SAENGER, PAUL and NADINE (Trans)

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 Hopkins University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: Europe European France French history

$18.50
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The Social Life of Money in the English Past


VALENZE, DEBORAH

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: Cambridge University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: money England English history finance economics 17th seventeenth 18th eighteenth century

$20.00
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Politics in French Polynesia 1945-1975


TAGUPA, WILLIAM

Octavo stapled light card covers (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: D N Adams Ltd (Printer) 1976

KEYWORDS: politics political government French Polynesia history 20th twentieth century

$18.50
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Friends in Deed: 50 Years of Quaker Service Australia


SAVILLE, HEATHER

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: Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Inc 2009

KEYWORDS: religious groups religion Quakers Australia service history

$22.50
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Christian Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition


AUMANN, JORDAN

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: Sheed & Ward / Ignatius Press 1985

KEYWORDS: religion religious history Christianity catholicism spirituality theology

$17.50
xxqgc211068

New Zealand: The Dear Old Maori Land


LYSNAR, FRANCES BREWER

OWNERSHIP OF RELATIVE OF C F GOLDIE, octavo hardcover (VG) insect damage to front eps; 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 Brett Printing & Publishing Co 1915

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history culture Frances Brewer Lysnar

$30.00
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Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales


WHITE, JOHN & RIENITS, REX (Biographical Intro) & CHISHOLM, ALEC H (Ed)

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: Angus and Robertson 1962

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian voyages history maritime nautical exploration NSW New South Wales journals diaries

$25.00
xxqgj211091

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume 1: Archaic Greece The Mind of Athens (Second Edition)


JAEGER, WERNER & HIGHET, GILBERT (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Oxford University Press 1986 ?

KEYWORDS: ancient Greek history antiquity Paideia culture Hellenism

$25.00
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Faberge's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire


FABER, TOBY

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: Macmillan 2008

KEYWORDS: antiques Carl Faberge eggs art Russia Russian jewels history

$25.00
xxqgj211095

Menus of Empress Elisabeth and Her Love for Lake Starnberg


VON OSTERREICH, KAISERIN ELISABETH (Poems) & VON BAYERN, CHRISTOPH PRINZ (Preface)

TEXT IN GERMAN & ENGLISH, 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: Point-Art Verlag 2003

KEYWORDS: cookbooks history historical Empress Elisabeth recipes food Lake Starnberg aristocracy

$40.00
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The Iron Ships: A Maritime History of BHP 1885-1992


RILEY, DENIS M & CRISP, DALE E (Ed)

Square quarto, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, silver gilt shipping illus to front board, illus title page with textured tissue guard, 252pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, boards sl warped, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: BHP Transport 1992

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian cargo ships shipping history trade maritime nautical BHP Transport

$175.00
ak4/8b/14

The Works of Antonio Canova, in Sculpture and Modelling, Engraved in Outline; With Descriptions from the Italian of the Countess Albrizzi, and a Biographical Memoir: Volume I


CANOVA, ANTONIO & MOSES, HENRY (Engravings) & CICOGNARA, COUNT (Bio. Memoir)

THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, folio, half green leather bound green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, (xx) + xl + unnumbered plates, VG (moderate rubbing & scuffing/surface loss to leatherwork on spine & board corners, sl loosening/wrinkling of buckram/material to boards, minimal library markings, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's name in pencil to prelims, moderate foxing to plates)

PUBLISHER: Septimus Prowett 1824

KEYWORDS: Antonio Canova history historical art sculptures Italy Italian antiquarian books

$70.00
ak4/8b/15

Caterpillar: Seventy-Five Years


WILK, THOMAS

DUAL ENGLISH & GERMAN TEXT, quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, white & blue lettering to spine, 287pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, prev. owner's name & inscription in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Podszun 2003

KEYWORDS: heavy plant machinery machines construction Caterpillar manufacturers history

$45.00
ak4/8b/16

Euclid: Earth-Moving Equipment 1924-1968


ORLEMANN, ERIC C

Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 222pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Iconografix 2004

KEYWORDS: heavy plant machinery earth-moving equipment construction history Euclid manufacturers

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