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Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum


BUTTS, B (Ed)

Octavo stapled light card covers (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

KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel museum guides museums Okains Bay Maori and Colonial Museum history

$10.00
xxhae215799

The Nature of Alexander


RENAULT, MARY

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1983

KEYWORDS: ancient history Alexander the Great biography biographies Greek Mary Renault

$90.00
ak5/15/12

History of Kaitangata 1800s-2004


SUTTON, IRENE (Fore) & PROCTOR, BILL (Fore)

Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 556pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges & eps, ffep glued down to front pastedown, minor wrinkling & soiling to title page) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing/wrinkling to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Otago University Print (Printer) N/D (c.2004?)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand rural communities history goldmining Kaitangata south island

$50.00
ak5/15/14

The Great Warbow: From Hastings to the Mary Rose


STRICKLAND, MATTHEW & HARDY, ROBERT

Ex-library, quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 538pp, illus, VG (jacket firmly affixed to boards- could be carefully removed if desired, usual library markings & scuffs, moderate soiling to page edges & eps, occasional crscking to gutters) in d/w, VG (affixed to boards, minor creasing & fading with soiling)

PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing 2005

KEYWORDS: history weapons weaponry bows arrows warbow longbow warfare combat

$45.00
ak5/15/18

The Earliest Wheeled Transport: From the Atlantic Coast to the Caspian Sea


PIGGOTT, STUART

Quarto, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt publisher's motif to front board, 272pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl fading to board edges, light to moderate soiling to page edges & eps, light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, odd makeshift tape repairs to internal sides, moderate creasing to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1983

KEYWORDS: transport history wheels wheeled wagons carts horses vehicles ancient iron age bronze age

$60.00
ak5/15/19

The Future of Architecture Since 1889


COHEN, JEAN-LOUIS

Heavy quarto, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine & boards, illus prelims, 527pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges, minor soiling)

PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 2012

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings design history

$40.00
ak5/15/25

The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies


McEVILLEY, THOMAS

Super octavo, black heavy boards, yellow lettering to spine, xxxvi + 732pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to boards, light soiling to page edges- otherwise still a tidy copy) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Allworth Press 2001

KEYWORDS: philosophy history historical Greek Indian Greece India criticism

$60.00
ak5/15/29

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History


KHALDUN, IBN & ROSENTHAL, FRANZ (Trans) & DAWOOD, N J (Abridged & Ed)

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, to page edges stained red- faded, xiv + 465pp, VG (light scuffing/chafing to board edges & extrems, 1cm crack to top of rear hinge, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in reversible d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, moderate foxing/soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1967

KEYWORDS: literature philosophy history Ibn Khaldun

$40.00
ak5/15/33

Academies and Society in Southern Sung China


WALTON, LINDA

Ex-library, super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, x + 309pp, VG (minimal library markings, boards sl warped, light tanning & soiling to page edges, minor scuff to front pastedown, moderate creasig to top edges of pgs 195-208, jacket affixed to rear board) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & peeling to edges, sl soiling, rear flap affixed to rear board)

PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 1999

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity China southern Sung dynasty academic education

$40.00
ak5/15/35

The History of Changi


PROBERT, HENRY

Octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine, xviii + 132pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl creasing to cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Changi University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: southeast Asia Changi history military Singapore Henry Probert

$75.00
ak5/15/38

Bruce McLaren: Racing Car Constructor


BEGG, GEORGE

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 264pp, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Begg & Allen 2019

KEYWORDS: automotive motorsport Bruce McLaren car racing high performance history biography biographies memoir

$100.00
ak5/16/2

Can-Am 50th Anniversary: Flat Out With North America's Greatest Race Series 1966-74


LEVY, GEORGE & BIRO, PETE (Photos) & LYONS, PETE (Fore)

Lg quarto, illus heavy boards, orange lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 256pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extremw, light chafing & soiling to boards) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Motorbooks / Quarto Publishing 2016

KEYWORDS: automotive motorsports North America can-am race history car racing

$245.00
ak5/16/5

The Road to Monaco: My Life in Motor Racing


GANLEY, HOWDEN

SIGNED, square super octavo, green heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, 448pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Denley Publications 2015

KEYWORDS: signed Howden Ganley motorsports automotive history autobiography autobiographies memoir f1 formula one 1 New Zealand Zealanders

$100.00
ak5/16/6

The Venture of Islam (3 Vol Set)


HODGSON, MARSHALL G S

3 VOL SET, super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & coloured lettering to spines, mixed pagination, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press N/D (c.2010s?)

KEYWORDS: history Islam Islamic culture empires

$60.00
ak5/16/8

The Second World War, Illustrated & Abridged


CHURCHILL, WINSTON S

Heavy folio, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine & front board, 304pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Grange Books 2003

KEYWORDS: Winston S Churchill military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$52.50
ak5/16/10

Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History


BORDEN, IAIN

Imperial octavo, illus stiff card covers, red lettering to spine & front cover, illus prelims, xii + 369pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to cover edges/extrems)

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2021

KEYWORDS: urban hobbies sport skateboarding history culture development

$40.00
ak5/16/15

Take Me to the Nevis


JOYCE, LOUISE

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, 323pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl curling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Dunstan Publications 2020

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Central Otago Nevis Valley goldmining history

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