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We Were Soldiers Once... And Young: Ia Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam


MOORE, LT. GEN. HAROLD G. & GALLOWAY, JOSEPH

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Airlife Publishing 1994

KEYWORDS: leutenant general Harold G. Hal Moore American military memoir Vietnam war history battle of Ia Drang

$15.00
xxelf221054

The Battle for Berlin


STRAWSON, JOHN

Ex-library 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: B. T. Batsford 1974

KEYWORDS: battle for Berlin world war two military history

$15.00
xxeme221061

The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences


ADAMS, FRANK DAWSON

Octavo softcover (VG) minor pencil annotations; 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: Dover 1954

KEYWORDS: history of science geology b&w illustrations

$10.00
xxeme221065

The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion [Abridged Edition]


FRAZER, SIR JAMES

ABRIDGED paperback (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: Macmillan 1963

KEYWORDS: magic religion history

$55.00
3c1/10

The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 1767-1768


DE BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS-ANTOINE & DUNMORE, JOHN (Trans & Ed)

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, map/illus to eps, lxxvii + 322pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light fading/tanning to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, minor soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Map Library 2002

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society series exploration history maritime Pacific journals Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 17th seventeenth century

$100.00
3c1/15

Essay on the Theory of the Earth (Fifth Edition)


CUVIER, Baron G [GEORGES] & JAMESON, Professor (Geological Illus)

FIFTH EDITION, FRONTIS LOOSE, super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate on spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 16pp + xxiv + 550pp, VG- (leather title plate on spine heavily cracked, moderate creasing/wrinkling to spine, moderate chafing to boards, light to moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to page edges, light tanning & moderate soiling to eps, prev. owners' names/details in ink to ffep, moderate soiling to prelims, ffep detached but present, moderate foxing & age appropriate staining to pages throughout, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T Cadell, Strand, London MDCCCXXVII (1827)

KEYWORDS: natural history literature essays Baron Georges G Cuvier

$45.00
3c1/18

An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 & 1786


WALKER, ALEXANDER & FISHER, ROBIN (Ed) & BUMSTED, J M (Ed)

Octavo, black heavy boards, black lettering to beige spine, 319pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling & discolouration to boards/edges, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy loss to top edge of spine & rear, otherwise only minor creasing & soiling, in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired)

PUBLISHER: Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press 1982

KEYWORDS: North West coast US America history exploration voyages 18th eighteenth century maritime Alexander Walker

$200.00
3c1/20

The Wild West of New Zealand: A Summer Cruise in the Rosa


PAULIN, ROBERT

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to front board, frontispiece, viii + 121pp, G+ (bottom half of spine partially detached & flapping loose, moderate to heavy chipping/scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, prev. ownership embossed to ffep, heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- tape reinforcement to front gutter, prev. owners' names in ink to verso of half title page, top corner of title page missing [text affected] with repairs, numerous tears with tape repairs to pages throughout, prev. owner's minor ink markings sporadically throughout, heavy cracking to some gutters, large crack to rear gutter- binding exposed & rear board shaky)

PUBLISHER: Thoburn & Co 1889

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical travel literature Robert Paulin south west

$40.00
3c1/21

A Yankee Botanist in the Carolinas: The Reverend Moses Ashley Curtis (1808-1872)


BERKELEY, EDMUND & BERKELEY, DOROTHY SMITH & CURTIS, Rev MOSES ASHLEY

Octavo, light blue/grey light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & front cover, printed inside covers, frontispiece, 242pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to front cover)

PUBLISHER: J Cramer 1986

KEYWORDS: US America American history nature plants botany botanists Reverend Moses Ashley Curtis

$45.00
3c1/22

Monkey Puzzle Man: Archibald Menzies, Plant Hunter


McCARTHY, JAMES

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, grey & white lettering to spine, xiii + 223pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, prev. owner's name [David Galloway] in ink to inside front cover, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Whittles Publishing 2008

KEYWORDS: botany plants Archibald Menzies history naturalists

$75.00
3c1/23

History, Heritage and Colonialism: Historical Consciousness, Britishness and Cultural Identity in New Zealand 1870-1940


GENTRY, KYNAN

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xv + 272pp, illus, VG+ (minor bruising to extrems, minor soiling & creasing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: imperialism history colonialism New Zealand Great Britain British

$40.00
3c1/24

New China Eye Witness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy


BEATTIE, JAMES (Ed) & BULLEN, RICHARD (ED) & SHI, XIONGBO (Chinese Trans)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to spine & front board, 176pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2017

KEYWORDS: culture cultural history China Chinese Roger Duff Rewi Alley museums heritage New Zealand

$175.00
3c1/25

Etudes Synthetiques de Geologie Experimentale


DAUBREE, A

TEXT IN FRENCH, super octavo, quarter leather bound patterned heavy boards, gilt lettering/tooling/decoration & raised bands to spine, grey speckling to page edges, marbled eps, (8) + iii + 828pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing to leatherwork & board edges- minor surface loss, moderate bruising to extrems, minor scuffing to boards, minor tanning & foxing to page edges, light cracking to gutters, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Dunod, Editeur 1879

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH geology mines natural history A Daubree

$60.00
3c1/28

Writing Politics in Imperial Rome


DOMINIK, W J (Ed) & GARTHWAITE, J (Ed) & ROCHE, P A (Ed)

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xii + 539pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine & boards, lighth chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Brill, Leiden 2009

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity literature Rome imperial politics political writing classics classical

$40.00
3c1/29

Atlantis - The Mystery Unravelled


SPANUTH, JURGEN

Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 207pp, illus, VG+ (minor discolouration to spine extrems, sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- minor loss, light fading to spine, minor tanning & soiling to rear & flaps)

PUBLISHER: Arco Publishers 1956

KEYWORDS: ancient mysteries city of Atlantis history civilisations civilizations research

$40.00
3c1/32

The Maungatapu Mountain Murders: A Narrative of the Murder of Five Men Between the Wakamarina River and Nelson by Burgess, Levy, Kelly and Sullivan in 1866


GRACE, A A (Preface & Postscript)

VERY SCRUFFY COPY, octavo, illus light card wrappers, 158pp, illus, G- (rear cover & spine missing, failed attempt at rebind to spine- tape flapping with binding fully exposed, heavy creasing & chipping/loss to front cover edges, front cover also moderately tanned & soiled, moderate creasing/chipping & staining to page edges, moderate to heavy tearing at rusting staples to prelims, rear page moderately foxed & creased)

PUBLISHER: R W Stiles & Co 1924

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history true crime murder murders homicide Maungatapu mountain murders trials convictions

$375.00
3c1/33

Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger, Being an Account of Various Observations Made During the Voyage of HMS Challenger Round the World, in the Years 1872-1876 Under the Command of Capt Sir G S Nares and Capt F T Thomson


MOSELEY, H N

FIRST EDITION, ALL PLATES & MAPS PRESENT, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 620pp, illus, VG (moderate tanning to spine, minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, moderate cracking to gutters of prelims, moderate foxing & light soiling to prelims, prev. owner's name to prelims, occasional moderate cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1879

KEYWORDS: first editions exploration history voyages naturalists HMS Challenger 19th nineteenth century nature science

$60.00
3d5/2

In the Lee of the Hokonuis 1858-1963


BARRY, L S (Original Work) & BROWN, L C (Ed)

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, map at rear eps, 389pp, illus, VG+ (sl fading to spine, sl staining to rear board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Craig Printing Co 1966

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history industry trade infrastructure

$40.00
3d5/5

Operation Victory


DE GUINGAND, Major-General SIR FRANCIS

Ex-library, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 488pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, 2cm crack to head of spine, light fading to spine, light to moderate bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, some prelims & terminals removed- yellowing tape to 'ffep', occasional light soiling througout)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1947

KEYWORDS: military history operation victory army middle east

$600.00
3d5/10

New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History, with Special Reference to the Results of Government Expeditions in the Provinces of Auckland and Nelson


VON HOCHSTETTER, Dr FERDINAND

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, BOTH MAPS & ALL COLOUR PLATES PRESENT, imperial octavo, dark green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, marbled page edges- faded, marbled eps, frontispiece, xvi + 515pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owners' names in ink to ffep & prelims, light tanning & moderate foxing to prelims, moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Stuttgart, J G Cotta 1867

KEYWORDS: first English edition New Zealand geography geology natural history Dr Ferdinand von Hochstetter Auckland Nelson

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