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Broken Hill Volume 4: 1940-1983
8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Broken Hill Historical Society 1987
KEYWORDS: Broken Hill R H B Kearns 20th century social history
Broken Hill Volume 3: 1915-1939
8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Broken Hill Historical Society 2000
KEYWORDS: Broken Hill R H B Kearns 20th century social history
Broken Hill Volume 1: 1883-1893
8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Broken Hill Historical Society 1996
KEYWORDS: Broken Hill R H B Kearns 19th century social history
Mt. Egmont Alpine Club and Dawson Falls: 50 Year History 1928-1978
8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Hawera Star Publishing Co. 1978
KEYWORDS: Mt Mount Egmont Dawson Falls alpine club mountain history 20th century
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
Super 8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Scribner 2019
KEYWORDS: Andrew Rader exploration space history explorers travel
Seats in All Parts: Half a Lifetime at the Movies
Super 8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1985
KEYWORDS: Leslie Halliwell social history industry industrial Lancashire England 20th century
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
Super 8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company 2012
KEYWORDS: John F Fitzgerlad Kennedy murder crime 20th century history America American president
The Last Place: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
Super 8vo 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Crown 2018
KEYWORDS: Eisen Norman Europe 20th century European history life lives biography biographies
The Wild West (Companion Volume to the Television Miniseries)
4to 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Warner Books N.D.
KEYWORDS: United States of America Wild West mini series television environment landscape history
Le Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco: Story of a Legend 1929-1960
SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#269/500), heavy lg quarto, beige cloth boards, no external lettering, 347pp + summary to rear, illus/photos, Near Fine, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & closed tearing to edges, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Editions Automobilia N/D (c.1990)
KEYWORDS: automotive history grand prix Monaco motorsport racing signed limited editions
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
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
The Levant Voyage of the Blackham Galley (1696-1698): The Sea Journal of John Looker, Ship's Surgeon
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
The Voyages and Manifesto of William Fergusson, a Surgeon of the East India Company 1731-1739
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
Joao Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan
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
English Travellers to Venice 1450-1600
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
Picasso Love and War 1935-1945
Quarto, black heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to spine & front board, all page edges stained purple, illus prelims, 317pp, illus, Near FINE (slight bruising & rubbing to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine/front cover, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Flammarion 2006
KEYWORDS: art history biography biographies memoir Pablo Picasso Dora Maar
Labour of Love: Childbirth at Dunedin Hospital 1862-1972
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
The Doctrine of the Nerves: Chapters in the History of Neurology
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
When the Smoke Clears: A History of the Timaru Fire Brigade 1864-1995
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
Rural Sports, Volume 2 (Parts I + II) and Supplement Volume (3 Vol Set)
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