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$70.00
ak1/3a/16

The Presocratic Philosophers: Volume 2: Empedocles to Democritus


BARNES, JONATHAN

FIRST EDITION, THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 353pp, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & edges of front cover, sl tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1979

KEYWORDS: first editions ancient philosophy philosophers history historical classical literature

$100.00
ak1/3b/1

Percussion Instruments and Their History


BLADES, JAMES

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, beige buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 509pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, sm adhesive residue to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1970

KEYWORDS: first editions music history percussion instruments culture

$40.00
ak1/3b/6

The Heptarchia Mystica of John Dee


DEE, JOHN & TURNER, ROBERT (Transcribed, Intro & Annotated) & COUSINS, ROBIN E (Article) & UPTON, CHRISTOPHER (Latin Trans) & CATTELL, CHARLES H (Illus)

Octavo, illus light card covers, green lettering to spine, frontispiece, 126pp, illus/diagrams, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. booksellers' ink stamps to half title page, moderate pencil annotations)

PUBLISHER: The Aquarian Press 1986

KEYWORDS: esoteric Enochian magic magick occult occultism John Dee Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn history historical

$40.00
ak1/3b/13

Magic in History: Ritual Magic


BUTLER, ELIZABETH M

Super octavo, purple illus light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 329pp, illus, VG+ (light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light soiling to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing 1998

KEYWORDS: occult occultism magic magick esoteric history rituals religion

$40.00
ak1/3b/14

The New Official Guide: Japan


N/A

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, red stiff buckram boards/covers, gilt lettering to spine & front cover, maps/illus to eps, addenda loosely enclosed to rear, xv + 1102pp, folding maps throughout- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges, prev. owner's inscription in ink to verso of title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine) in slipcase, VG (moderate bruising & tanning/foxing)

PUBLISHER: Japan Travel Bureau, Inc 1966

KEYWORDS: first editions travel guides Japan Japanese maps tourist tourism history historical 60s sixties

$60.00
ak1/3b/16

Treaty to Treaty: A History of Early New Zealand from the Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 to the Treaty of Waitangi 1840: Volume 1: Background Topics


BENNETT, R S

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, black light card covers, orange lettering to spine & front cover, xii + 211pp, VG+ (light creasing/peeling & curling to cover egdes, light chafing & soiling to covers, light creasing to fore-edges of prelim pages)

PUBLISHER: None Stated (c.2000s)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history treaty of Tordesillas Waitangi te tiriti o Waitangi sovereignty British colonialism Spain Portugal

$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

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