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$30.00
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The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology


KANTOROWICZ, ERNST H & JORDAN, WILLIAM CHESTER (New Preface)

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: Princeton University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: history politics political theology medieval mediaeval

$25.00
xx151pol221532

The Russian Century: A Photojournalistic History of Russia in the Twentieth Century


MOYNAHAN, BRIAN (Text) & YEVTUSHENKO, YEVGENY (Fore)

Lg quarto 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: Seven Dials 1999

KEYWORDS: modern history Russia Russian photos photography photojournalism 20th twentieth century

$16.50
xx151pol221537

Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa


KENYON, PAUL

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: Head of Zeus 2018

KEYWORDS: Africa social history Paul Kenyon

$30.00
xx151pol221538

They Speed the Eagles: The Story of the WAAAF (The Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force)


MASSEY-HIGGINS, PATRICIA & HAXTON, ELAINE (Illus)

FIRST EDITION, 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: F H Johnston Publishing 1943

KEYWORDS: first editions WAAAF women's auxiliary air force Australia Australian military history

$30.00
xx151pol221540

A History of the Altcar Rifle Range 1860-1960


FRENCH, J D

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: West Lancashire Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association 1961

KEYWORDS: military history Atlcar rifle range centennial centenary

$35.00
xx151pol221546

The Family in Classical Greece


LACEY, W K

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: Thames and Hudson 1968

KEYWORDS: classical Greece Greek ancient history antiquity

$22.50
xx151pol221548

Bitter Monsoon: The Memoirs of a Fighter Pilot


MOXON, OLIVER

FIRST EDITION, 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: Robert Hale 1955

KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter pilots biography memoir biographies Stefan James first editions

$30.00
xx152pol221551

Hypatia of Alexandria


DZEILSKA, MARIA & LYRA, F (Trans)

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: Harvard University Press 1996

KEYWORDS: ancient history Hypatia Alexandria

$22.50
xx152pol221557

Recollections of an Australian Squatter 1835-1883


BRODRIBB, W A

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: John Ferguson 1978

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history W A Brodribb autobiography memoir 19th nineteenth century

$15.00
xx152pol221558

Select Documents in Australian History 1788-1850, Vol I


CLARK, C M H (Selected & Ed) & PRYOR, L J (Assist.)

THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Angus & Robertson 1980

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history documents resources research

$60.00
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Colditz: The German Story


EGGERS, REINHOLD& GEE, HOWARD

Octavo, green & red marle heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 190pp, illus, VG+ (v slight bruising to spine & extrems, slight tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown) in d/w VG (minor historic yellowing tape repairs, light to moderate chipping & bruising to spine, edges & extrems, slight tanning & soiling to jacket, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale Ltd 1961

KEYWORDS: colditz prisoner of war pow pows german nazi second world war two ii history memoir reinhold eggers

$40.00
3e2/37

Into Colditz


REID, MILES & BARONESS AIREY OF ABINGDON (fore) & FERMOR, PATRICK LEIGH (intro)

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 95pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to spine & extrems, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown) in d/w VG+ (in adhesive wrapper with slight separation from jacket, v slight soiling to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Michael Russell (Publishing Ltd) 1983

KEYWORDS: colditz prisoner of war pow pows second world war two ii history memoir miles reid

$75.00
3e2/41

The Wilds of Maoriland


MACKINTOSH BELL, JAMES

MAPS TO REAR, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiii + 257, illus/plates- not counted oresumed all present, folding maps to rear- counted & all present, VG- (moderate bruising to spine & extrems, light to moderate scuffing to board hinges & edges, boards lightly warped, spine lightly cocked, page edges, eps & pastedowns heavily soiled, light foxing & soiling throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters, map of central and southern alps lightly foxed, map of NZ heavily foxed, with some tearing to creases, both maps have small tears at the join)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co Limited 1914

KEYWORDS: maps james mackintosh bell maoriland maori aotearoa new zealand history natural botany

$47.50
3e2/44

DJ-Culture


POSCHARDT, ULF & WHITESIDE, SHAUN (trans)

Super octavo, white illus light card wrappers, black & red lettering to spine and cover, 473pp, VG+ (light soiling to wrapper, v slight scuffing to cover & edges, light foxing & tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Quartet Books 1998

KEYWORDS: dj ulf poschardt djing modern music history culture musicology

$145.00
3e1/18

Rulers of the Ancient World: Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Nero, Hannibal & Alexander the Great (5 Vol Boxed Set)


LINDSAY, JACK & MCLEISH, KENNETH (intro) & MEIER, CHRISTIAN & JONES, PETER (intro) & MCLINTOCK, DAVID (trans) & GRANT, MICHAEL & BRADFORD, ERNLE &

FIVE VOLUME BOXED SET, IN SLIPCASE, super octavo cloth boards (in navy, green, mustard, red, & purple respectively) copper gilt lettering to spine, copper gilt illus to front boards, illus eps, illus title page, xxiv + 392, xxvii + 222, xvii + 507, XXV + 254, xvi + 588, illus / maps / photos, Nr FINE (v slight fading to spines, v slight soiling to Julius Caesar's spine & boards, 2mm hole in cloth to Nero's spine, v slight soiling & light bruising to Alexander the Great's rear boards) in slipcase VG (lightly soiled & faded, light to moderate scuffing & bruising to rear upper edge, light to moderate staining to top & bottom)

PUBLISHER: Folio Society 1998

KEYWORDS: Jack Lindsay Kenneth McLeish Christian Meier Peter Jones David McLintock Michael Grant Ernle Bradford classics classical history ancient world Cleopatra Julius Caesar Nero Hannibal Alexander the Great

$225.00
3e1/21

The Library of Entertaining Knowledge: The New Zealanders


CRAIK, GEORGE LILLIE

Duodecimo brown heavy boards with blind stamp decoration & gilt border to boards, gilt decoration to spine, gilt lettering to green section of spine, brown speckling to page edges, marbled eps, iv + 424, illus / maps, VG+ (light to moderate scuffing to spine extrems & board corners, light scuffing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy soiling & tanning to page edges, prelims & terminals, previous owners' names in ink to prelims, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Charles Knight, Pall Mall East 1830

KEYWORDS: new zealand zealanders history george lillie craik nineteenth century

$65.00
3e1/23

Eastern Nights - and Flights: A Record of Oriental Adventure


BOTT, ALAN CONTACT'

Small octavo blue buckram boards, black lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 315pp, VG- (light to moderate bruising to spine & board extrems, minor fading/tanning to spine, slight scuffing & soiling to hinges & edges, moderate creasing to rear board, moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to page edges, light to moderate foxing to eps, sporadic light soiling to pages, previous owner's name in ink to fep & prelims, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons 1920

KEYWORDS: the great war first i world history memoir alan contact bott

$450.00
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Siluria: The History of the Oldest Known Rocks containing Organic Remains; with a brief sketch of the distribution of Gold over the Earth


MURCHISON, SIR RODERICK IMPEY

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, half leatherbound green shiny cloth boards with gilt borders to leather, gilt lettering & decoration plus blind stamp decoration & raised bands to spine, speckled page edges, marbled eps, folding map to front, xvi + 523 + 37 plates- all counted & present, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spine with minor loss to some leatherwork at rear, light scuffing to front board & extrems, heavy foxing to most plates, other light foxing throughout, light tanning to page edges, prev. owners' names in ink to prelims)

PUBLISHER: John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1854

KEYWORDS: siluria paleontology fossils united kingdom history sir roderick impey murchison first edition

$245.00
3f5/3

The History of England in Three Volumes: The Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Reign of James II; From the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II; and From the Accession of George III to the Twenty-Third Year of theReign of Queen Victoria


HULME, DAVID & SMOLLETT, TOBIAS & FARR, E & NOLAN, E H

THREE VOLUME SET, imperial octavo, half leather bound green textured buckram boards with gilt border to leatherwork on boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spines, marbled page edges and eps, frontispieces with tissue guards, illus title pages, mixed pagination, illus, VG (moderate scuffing to leather work- some surface loss, light tanning & fading to page edges, prominent early Dunedinite's signature to feps [RCB Greenslade], prev bookseller's label to front pastedowns, heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, minor foxing & soiling to pages, 3cm tear to hinge of volume III, front gutter of volume III lightly cracked and board shaky, title page of volume III partially detached, coloured patch to spine of vol I rubbed away)

PUBLISHER: James S Virtue, City Road and Ivy Lane, London ca. 1860s??

KEYWORDS: history england david hulme tobias smollett e farr e h nolan

$40.00
3f5/6

Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa


TYRRELL, BARBARA (author & illus)

Quarto, cream illus boards, black lettering to boards & spine, illus eps, unpaginated prelims + 206pp, illus, VG- (moderate soiling to boards & spine, moderate bruising to spine & extrems, front gutter & gutter between p98-99 lightly cracked and board shaky, moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, prelims & terminals, light to moderate foxing throughout) in d/w G+ (4cm sections missing from top & bottom of spine & lower front corner of jacket, heavily tanned & foxed, moderate soiling, chafing & creasing to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Books of Africa 1968

KEYWORDS: africa southern barbara tyrrell art anthropology african history culture tribal religion shamanism

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