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Profile Aircraft 257: Udet (BFW) U-12 Flamingo Variants
Super 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: Profile Publications Ltd 1973
KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter planes Profile Aircraft series design engineering udet u-12 flamingo
Profile Aircraft 122: Polikarpov I-16
Super 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: Profile Books Ltd 1982
KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter planes Profile Aircraft series design engineering polikarpov i-16
Profile Publications Number 6: The Bristol Bulldog
Super 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: Profile Publications 1964
KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter planes Profile Publications series design engineering bristol bulldog RAF Royal Air Force
Profile Publications Number 10: The Gloster Gauntlet
Super octavo softcover, stapled (VG-) covers torn at staples but still tidy; 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: Profile Publications 1965
KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter planes Profile Publications series design engineering RAF Royal Air Force gloster gauntlet
Profile Publications Number 32: The Westland Wapiti
Super 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: Profile Publications 1965
KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter planes Profile Publications series design engineering westland wapiti
Profile Publications Number 44: The Fairey IIIF
Super 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: Profile Publications 1965
KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter planes Profile Publications series design engineering fairey iiif
Luftwaffe at War: Blitzkrieg in the West, 1939-1942
Imperial 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: Greenhill Books 1997
KEYWORDS: military history aviation German nazi Germany fighter planes blitzkrieg aerial warfare combat luftwaffe ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
Luftwaffe at War: Fighters Over Russia
Imperial 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: Greenhill Books 1997
KEYWORDS: military history aviation German nazi Germany fighter planes aerial warfare combat luftwaffe ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Russia
Essential Histories: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948
Ex-library, 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: Osprey Publishing 2002
KEYWORDS: middle east conflict history Arab-Israeli war Palestine Israel
Life and Work of the People of England: A Pictorial Record from Contemporary Sources: The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries AD 1000-1300
Tidy ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: B T Batsford 1931
KEYWORDS: medieval history England English customs culture
Tarawera: The Destruction of the Pink and White Terraces
Imperial 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: Grantham House 2006
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history volcanic activity volcanoes eruptions pink and white terraces tourism geology landscape natural disasters
Atlas of Ancient Egypt
Quarto 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: Phaidon Press 1984
KEYWORDS: atlas atlases ancient Egypt Egyptian history antiquity geography
Katherine Mansfield and Russia
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & covers, xii + 226pp, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: literature literary history Katherine Mansfield criticism Russia Russian
The New Zealanders
Sm octavo, marbled boards, gilt lettering to grey spine, gilt rule to spine & grey board corners, red speckled page edges, frontispiece, iv + 424pp, illus, VG (moderate chafing/scuffing to boards, moderate soiling to grey areas of spine & board corners, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, light tanning & foxing to eps & sporadically throughout, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Charles Knight, Pall Mall East 1830
KEYWORDS: New Zealand early history antiquarian books historical George Craik
Letters from the Steppe, Written in the Years 1886-1887
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind stamp lettering & rule to front board, teg, base of page block deckled, illus/map to front eps, frontispiece, xvi + 222, VG (light fading to spine, sl scuffing to extrems, light to moderate staining to front board, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor foxing to eps, moderate foxing to prelims, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1928
KEYWORDS: travel exploration Steppe William Bateson letters correspondence history historical
Scorched Earth (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, sm octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spines & front boards, 396pp total, VG (minor fading to spines, light bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, minor fading to board edges, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & throughout, light tanning & foxing to eps)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1941
KEYWORDS: Sino-Japanese war history Edgar Snow aftermath Nanking massacre China Chinese
Pioneer Plant Geography: The Phytogeographical Researches of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained grey, frontispiece, x + 267pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name [David Galloway] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- minor loss, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Martinus Nijhoff 1953
KEYWORDS: botany plants history historical research Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker geography
The Desert Ibex: Life History, Ecology and Behaviour of the Nubian Ibex in Saudi Arabia
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light chafing & soiling, sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Immel Publishing 1994
KEYWORDS: nature desert nubian ibex natural history Saudi Arabia
Sir William Jardine: A Life in Natural History
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, green & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 244pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to board edges, minor chafing & soiling to boards & spine, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Leicester University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: natural history historians biography biographies memoir Sir William Jardine
The First Russian Voyage Around the World: The Journal of Hermann Ludwig von Lowenstern (1803-1806)
Super octavo, cream cloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xxx + 482pp, illus, VG+ (light fading & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, gift inscription in ink to half title page, minor pencil annotation to opp. pg482) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light fading to spine, minor chafing, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Univesity of Alaska Press 2003
KEYWORDS: exploration history Russian voyages journals diaries Hermann Ludwig von Lowenstern 19th nineteenth century