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List of Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, from June 1862 to June 1914: Volume II (New Edition)
THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, blue & red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt rule to boards, ix + 405pp, VG- (moderate fading/staining & bruising to spine & board corners, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's ink stamps to front & rear eps, light foxing & soiling to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Royal Artillery Institution 1914
KEYWORDS: military history soldiers officers royal regiment of artillery
The Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiment, From 1684 to 1902
REBOUND USING ORIGINAL BINDING, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece, xi + (3) + 462pp, illus/maps- not counted presumed all present, VG (moderate to heavy fading & foxing to spine, moderate fading to board edges, sl bruising & scuffing to board corners, minor chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate staining/discolouration to eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, minor cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1911
KEYWORDS: military history campaigns Royal Irish Regiment light infantry British Army
Treatise on Service Explosives 1907
Super octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards, red speckling to page edges, printed eps, v + 166pp, illus, VG (light fading to spine, light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to top edge of front board/front & rear eps & title page, light tanning to page edges & eps, moderate tanning to title page & terminals)
PUBLISHER: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1907
KEYWORDS: military history supplies explosives weapons weaponry gunpowder
The Last Maori War in New Zealand, Under the Self-Reliant Policy
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine- heavily soiled, gilt lettering to front board, etg, deckled page edges, contemporary eps, frontispiece, xxxix + 198pp, illus, VG- (heavy soiling to spine, moderate soiling to board edges, moderate chipping & scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. ownership ink stamps to front & rear eps & title page, moderate to heavy foxing to prelims, minor tanning & occasional foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Company 1902
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Maori wars colonisation colonization
Facts: or, The Experiences of a Recent Colonist in New Zealand 1882
Sm octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, blind stamp rule to boards, viii + 71pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to some gutters, sl foxing & soiling to prelims, binder's sm label to rear pastdown, occasional pencil underlining to text- light)
PUBLISHER: Mrs William 1883
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Mrs William colonies colonists early settlers pioneers
Humanism and History: Origins of Modern English Historiography
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 297pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling & warping to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges, fore-edges of pgs217-284 moderately creased & soiled) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, light to moderate creasing & chipping/loss to edges, minor tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1987
KEYWORDS: history historiography Great Britain British humanism first editions
Illegitimacy: An Examination of Bastardy
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 200pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl tanning & soiling to eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing/chipping & moderate staining/fading to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: first editions family history illegitimate bastardy morality sociology social science law legal
Religious Commemoration of the Seventieth Anniversary of Otago, March 23-24 1918
Octavo, stapled grey light card wrappers, blue lettering to front cover, 71pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate cracking/tearing to spine at staples- tidy archival tape repairs, moderate fading & foxing to covers, light to moderate creasing to cover edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to inside covers, moderate cracking/tearing to gutter with rusty staples also, occasional minor soiling throughout)
PUBLISHER: Early Settlers' Hall, Dunedin 1918
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago religion religious history 70th seventieth anniversary early settlers pioneers
Philosophic Words: A Study of Style and Meaning in the Rambler and Dictionary of Samuel Johnson
Octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + (4) + 167pp, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, sl paper residue to top edge of rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (moderate staining & tanning to spine light to moderate foxing & soiling, light creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Archon Books 1968
KEYWORDS: language linguistics history historical Rambler dictionary Samuel Johnson style rhetoric philosophy
A Spirit Companion: Celebrating the First 50 Years of the Spirit of Adventure Trust
Super octavo, teal cloth boards, white & black lettering to spine, black & white lettering & illus to boards, illus eps, frontispiece, 343pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & soiling to spine & board extrems, sl soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Oratia Books 2023
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history Spirit of Adventure New Zealand
Historical Records of the Forty-Third Regiment, Monmouthshire Light Infantry, with a Roll of the Officers and Their Services from the Period of Embodiment to the Close of 1867
Rebound incorporating original binding, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & insignia to spine, gilt military insignia to front board, contemporary eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, unpaginated prelims + 352pp, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, moderate chafing/scuffing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. ownership sm ink stamps to front & rear eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, sl foxing & soiling throughout)
PUBLISHER: W Clowes & Sons 1868
KEYWORDS: military war history 43rd regiment Monmouthshire Light Infantry officers soldiers servicemen
Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 'Garrison Officers' Club' label to front board, printed eps, 559pp, folding maps- counted & all present, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate soiling to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, prev. ownership label/ink stamps/markings to spine & eps/prelims, moderate tanning/soiling & light foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to prelims, occasional sl soiling/foxing & ink stamps throughout)
PUBLISHER: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1909
KEYWORDS: military history minor conflicts small war guerilla warfare tactics
New Zealand and the War
FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL BINDING, octavo, teal textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled page edges, vii + 199pp + 16pp to rear, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to board & spine extrems, moderate staining/soiling to boards, 1cm scuff/crack to head of rear hinge, moderate tanning/soiling & light foxing to page edges, moderate chafing & scuffing to eps, prev. owner's ink stamp to ffep, light cracking to front & rear gutters, moderate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder and Co 1862
KEYWORDS: first editions original bindings New Zealand military history war settlers colonisation colonization
Land Search and Rescue in New Zealand 1934-2020
Oblong super octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, viii + 281pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing to cover edges, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Copy Press 2020
KEYWORDS: land search rescue New Zealand SAR history emergency response
A Century of Guns: A Sketch of the Leading Types of Sporting and Military Small Arms, with Over 150 Illustrattions of Guns and Rifles
Ex-library, imperial octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, xiii + 153pp + index to rear, illus, VG- (usual library markings, moderate to heavy scuffing & chipping to to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate cracking & vinyl tape repairs to front & rear gutters & throughout, pgs 27/28 detached but reattached with vinyl tape, minor creasing and/or soiling to fore-edges of pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Blanch & Son 1909
KEYWORDS: antiques antique guns rifles firearms weapons weaponry military sporting small arms history historical
Casualty Roll for the Crimea: The Casualty Rolls for the Siege of Sebastopol and Other Major Actions During the Crimean War 1854-1856
Quarto, black buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, additional gilt decoration to rear board, aeg, illus title page, xvii + (7) + 269pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl chafing to boards, sl foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: J B Hayward and Son
KEYWORDS: military history Crimea Crimean war casualties Sebastopol 19th nineteenth century
Battery Records of the Royal Artillery 1859-1877
FIRST EDITION, oblong imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt military insignia to front board, unpaginated, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading & rubbing to spine, moderate soiling to boards with snail trails/tracks also, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals & sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Royal Artillery Institution 1970
KEYWORDS: first editions military history battery records royal artillery 19th nineteenth century war records
Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, from 1660 to 1898
CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS TIPPED IN & HAND ANNOTATED, oblong quarto, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, viii + 130pp, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing/scuffing to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light soiling to eps, prev. owner's ink stamp to ffep, minor creasing to title page with 1.5cm closed tear to bottom edge, occasional light cracking to gutters, minor wrinkling to pages from glue applications/additions)
PUBLISHER: Royal Engineers Institute 1898
KEYWORDS: military history soldiers servicemen officers roll corps royal engineers historical resources research
Up and Down; or, Fifty Years' Colonial Experiences in Australia, California, New Zealand, India, China, and the South Pacific
FIRST EDITON, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine & boards, aeg, frontispiece, xii + (2) + 307pp + 32pp catalogue to rear, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing/chafing & soiling/staining to spine & boards/extrems, sl tanning & water staining to eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1879
KEYWORDS: first editions colonialism colonial history Captain W J Barry memoirs autobiography autobiographies Australia New Zealand California India China Sout Pacific
Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
Octavo, white light card wrappers, brown & red lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece with tissue guard, 347pp, VG (moderate staining to cover edges & eps, light to moderate creasing to cover edges, general sl soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, minor yellowing tape stain to fore-edge of ffep & prelims)
PUBLISHER: Foreign Languages Press 1965
KEYWORDS: Chairman Mao Tse-Tung writings literature politics Chinese China history politics economics communism