CHARRY-GARRARD, APSLEY & THEROUX, PAUL (Intro)

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: Picador 1994

KEYWORDS: exploration history south pole Antarctic Antarctica polar

HOLT, JOHN DOMINIS

Square imperial ocatvo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, 176pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & sl soiling to extrems & board edges, sl plucking to cloth on boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (light creasing to top edges, moderate creasing to base of jacket with 2x lg closed tears also, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Topgallant Publishing Co 1985

KEYWORDS: textiles fasion patterns design featherworks feathers Hawaii Hawai'i history historical clothing

RUSE, MICHAEL (Ed) & TRAVIS, JOSEPH (Ed) & WILSON, EDWARD O (Fore)

Super octavo, green buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xii + 979pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, sl warping to spine) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: history evolution science biology sociobiology

BLAKE, ROBERT

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, viii + 280pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999

KEYWORDS: history trading traders business commerce far east oriental Jardine Matheson & Co China Canton

KNAPLUND, PAUL

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 315pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to base of spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light tanning & foxing to spine, sl tanning & foxing to flaps, sm ink marking to front flap)

PUBLISHER: University of Wisconsin Press 1953

KEYWORDS: history colonialism British colonial system James Stephen 19th nineteenth century empire

VALE, MALCOLM

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 317pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges, v sl bruising to rear board) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate soiling, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1990

KEYWORDS: history angevin legacy Anglo-French war conflict medieval

NOTTAGE, BASIL

Octavo, blue illus light card wrappers, blue lettering to spine & covers, x + 286pp, VG (minor tanning/fading & moderate creasing/rubbing to spine, minor chafing & soiling to covers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate annotation in red ink to terminals- text block clear)

PUBLISHER: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 1988

KEYWORDS: history Basil Nottage diaries journals religion missionaries presbyterian New Hebrides Vanuatu New Zealand

NIGUMI, M A & ROBERTSON, Sir JAMES (Fore)

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 178pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl discolouration to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning to spine & edges, light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate foxing & light soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Caravel Press 1958

KEYWORDS: history imperialism colonialism Sudan Nigeria Africa African M A Nigumi

ROSS, ANGUS

WITH UNUSUALLY TIDY JACKET, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 506pp, illus/photos, folding maps- counted & all present, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning to eps, minor foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading & light tanning to spine, general minor tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs 1959

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history official histories series 23 23rd battalion ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 NZEF

KNOX, JOHN

Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vi + 276pp + 50pp appendix to rear, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl soiling to front eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling, price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: James Thin, Bookseller 1975 (Reprint of 1787 edition)

KEYWORDS: historical reprints history Scotland Scottish Hebrides Hebride isles highlands

EVISON, HARRY C

UNCOMMON, octavo, brown & white light card wrappers with french flaps, brown lettering to spine- faded, unpaginated prelims + 447pp, illus, VG+ (light to moderate fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl soiling to covers, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Panuitia Press 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand social history Walter Mantell biography biographies memoir racism race relations colonialism Maori pakeha

BARTH, HENRY

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, black decorative rule to spine & boards, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxxii + (2) + 608pp, illus, VG (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading & soiling to spine, sl chafing to boards, light soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, moderate crack to gutter of prelims- title page partially detached [nothing missing])

PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co N/D

KEYWORDS: historical travel writing literature Central Africa Henry Barth history

FRATER, MAURICE

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 288pp, illus, VG (light to moderate fading & tanning to spine, light bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, minor scuffing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: James Clarke & Co N/D

KEYWORDS: volcanoes history New Hebrides Vanuatu volcanic activity missionaries religion Christian Christianity

MARAIS, J S

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 384pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, sl rubbing to boards, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Dawsons of Pall Mall 1968

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history colonialism colonial British

HODGKINSON, R

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, printed rear eps, errata slip pasted in to front pastedown, viii + 64pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Roebuck 1975

KEYWORDS: Roebuck series maritime nautical history Australia Australian whaling whalers Eber Bunker biography

DAVIS, RALPH

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 427pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling, light scuffing & chipping to edges, 1cm scuff to front cover)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1962

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history England English shipping industry 17th 18th seventeenth eighteenth century

GOODELL, EDWARD

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 251pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, ligh tcreasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Prometheus Books 1994

KEYWORDS: history philosophy philosophers Marquis de Condorcet Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat

PHILLIPS, CARLA RAHN & PHILLIPS Jr, WILLIAM D

Super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus title page, xviii + 441pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to board edges, sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (prev. bookseller's label residue to front cover, light fading & soiling to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: The John Hopkins University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: Spain history Spanish wool trade middle ages production farming sheep

FLEMING, C A

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, orange lettering to spine, xiii + 353pp, illus, VG (moderate creasing to spine & covers, light soiling to page edges, sl cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: The Royal Society of New Zealand 1987

KEYWORDS: Royal Society of New Zealand history centenary centennial associations

FINDLAY, ALEXANDER G

Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind stamp decoration to boards, folding map/frontispiece, viii + 966pp, illus/folding maps, VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy scuffing & cracking/bruising to spine, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate foxing & soiling to prelims inc. folding map frontis, occasional moderate foxing sporadically throughout, occasional light to moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Published for Richard Holmes Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, EC 1871, With Additions to 1874

KEYWORDS: south pacific ocean directories geology landscapes islands history historical