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xxqaf222701

Always Plenty to Do: Women in the Wakatipu 1860-1920


RUDDENKAU, MICHELLE & BRADSHAW, JULIA

Octavo softcover, stapled (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: Not Stated (1999)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa women wahine early settlers pioneers Wakatipu Lakes District history

$20.00
xxqaf222708

Lady Gregory's Complete Irish Mythology


LADY GREGORY & YEATS, W B (Preface)

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: Bounty Books 2007

KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish mythology Lady Gregory legends history folklore lore

$20.00
xxqbi222710

W B Yeats: A Life


COOTE, STEPHEN

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: Hodder & Stoughton 1997

KEYWORDS: literature literary W B Yeats biography biographies memoir history

$15.00
xxqbi222713

The Revenge of History: Marxism and the East European Revolutions


CALLINICOS, ALEX

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: Polity Press 1991

KEYWORDS: history marxism east europe revolution politics political

$20.00
xxqcc222724

Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine


SCULL, ANDREW

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: Thames & Hudson 2016

KEYWORDS: sociology mental health insanity history

$19.50
xxqcc222725

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life


DENNETT, DANIEL C

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: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster 1996

KEYWORDS: Charles Darwin darwinian theory evolution biology science history

$16.50
xxqcd222731

A Little History of Science


BYNUM, WILLIAM

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: Yale University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: history popular science

$22.50
xxqcd222732

Experience and Enlightenment: Socialization for Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland


CAMIC, CHARLES

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: Edinburgh University Press 1983

KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish history 18th eighteenth century culture

$17.50
xxqce222737

Richelieu and His Age, Volume III: Power Politics and the Cardinal's Death


BURCKHARDT, CARL J & HOY, BERNARD (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; 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: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1965

KEYWORDS: politics political history Cardinal Richelieu biography biographies

$17.50
xxqce222740

Richelieu and his Age, Volume II: Assertion of Power and Cold War


BURCKHARDT, CARL J & HOY, BERNARD (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; 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: Harcourt Brace & World 1970

KEYWORDS: politics political history Cardinal Richelieu biography biographies

$15.00
xxqce222741

The Three Waves of Globalization: A History of a Developing Global Consciousness


ROBERTSON, ROBBIE

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: Zed Books 2004

KEYWORDS: history politics political theory globalisation globalization

$12.50
xxqch222745

Heroes: Volume II of Mythos


FRY, STEPHEN

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 2019

KEYWORDS: classical studies history mythology Stephen Fry ancient Greece Greek

$545.00
3g3/10

The Morioris of Chatham Islands: Memoirs of the Bernice P Bishop Museum Volume IX, Number 1, Bayard Dominick Expedition, Publication Number 4


SKINNER, H D

FIRST EDITION, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to red section of spine, page edges speckled red, 140pp + plates (all present), illus, VG (moderate fading to spine, 3cm closed tear to lower front hinge, light scuffing to boards, edges & spine, light bruising to board corners, light to moderate fading & soiling to boards, light to moderate soiling to eps & prelims/terminals, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Honolulu, Hawaii, Published by the Museum 1923

KEYWORDS: morioris moriori chatham chathams rekohu archaeology ethnology new zealand history h d skinner otago university academic

$40.00
3g3/13

The Sheep and Wool Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks 1781-1820


CARTER, HAROLD B (ed)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxx + 641pp, illus, VG+ (slight scuffing to edges & spine, slight soiling & chafing to boards, slight foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light creasing & scuffing to edges, light foxing, soiling & chafing to jacket)

PUBLISHER: The Library Council of New South Wales in Association with the British Museum (Natural History) 1979

KEYWORDS: sheep wool joseph banks botanist colonist correspondence new zealand history

$40.00
3g3/17

The People of the Sea: The Maritime Dimension of Pacific Island History


D'ARCY, PAUL

WARMLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED PHD THESIS, LATER PUBLISHED AS BOOK OF THE SAME TITLE, quarto, royal blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 335pp, illus, Nr FINE, (v sl foxing to page edges, v sl bruising to corners)

PUBLISHER: A Thesis Submitted for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University, March 2001

KEYWORDS: phd thesis paul d'arcy pacific island history polynesia maritime marine

$60.00
3g3/19

A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean 1796-1798


WILSON, JAMES & MOSCHNER, IRMGARD (intro)

FACSIMILE EDITION WITH FOLDING MAPS TO REAR, super octavo, white heavy boards, black text to spine, xix + 420pp, illus/maps (all present), VG+ (slight bruising to spine, light soiling to board edges, upper page edges moderately foxed) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, slight soiling to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Fruhe Reisen Und Seefahrten in Originalberichten Band 5, Akademische Druck Austria 1966

KEYWORDS: james wilson missionary missionaries south seas pacific polynesia christianity history colonisation

$100.00
3g3/20

Documents on Germany Under Occupation 1945 - 1954


VON OPPEN, BEATE RUHM

Imperial octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 660pp, folding map to rear, VG+ (slight bruising & scuffing to spine & board corners, light to moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, boards slightly warped) in d/w VG- (light chipping & creasing to edges, light to moderate foxing & soiling to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1955

KEYWORDS: occupied germany under occupation beate ruhm van oppen history post world war two second ii historic documents

$40.00
3g3/23

The Eastern Schism: A Study of the Papacy and the Eastern Churches During the XIth [11th] and XIIth [12th] centuries


RUNCIMAN, STEVEN

Super octavo, dark blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled lower edges, vii + 189pp, VG+ (v slight scuffing to edges of spine, v slight foxing to upper page edges, slight tanning to page edges, moderate soiling to fep & rep) in d/w VG+ (light tanning & soiling to jacket, v slight creasing to edges of jacket)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1955

KEYWORDS: eastern great schism papacy eastern churches eleventh twelth century christian history steven runciman

$40.00
3g3/24

The Congress of Arras 1435: A Study in Medieval Diplomacy


GLEDHILL DICKINSON, JOYCELYNE

Super octavo, dark blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 266pp, VG+ (v slight foxing to upper page edges, slight tanning to page edges, moderate soiling to fep & rep) in d/w VG+ (slight tanning & soiling to jacket, v slight creasing to edges of jacket)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1955

KEYWORDS: congress of arras joycelyne gledhill dickinson medieval diplomacy european history fifteenth century

$125.00
3g3/25

The Journal of William Lockerby: Sandalwood Trader in the Fijian Islands During the Years 1808 - 1809 with an Introduction & Other Papers Connected with the Earliest European Visitors to the Islands


PATTERSON, SAMUEL & SIDDON, RICHARD & LOCKERBY, WILLIAM & THURN, EVERARD IM (ed) & WHARTON, LEONARD C (ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, blind stamped border & gilt stamped ship decoration to boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled edges, cxi + 249pp, frontispiece, 3x folding maps to rear pocket (all complete) VG+ (slight brusing & scuffing to board edges & spine, v slight foxing & tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & soiling to pastedowns, fep/rep & half title page, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: The Haklyut Society Second Series No. LII Issued for 1922

KEYWORDS: first edition haklyut society william lockerby sandalwood trader trade fiji fijian islands nineteenth century polynesian history

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