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$25.00
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Pathfinders - A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW


BENNETT, MICHAEL

Super octavo, softcover (Near FINE); 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: NewSouth 2020

KEYWORDS: australia aus history trackers tracking aboriginals nsw new south wales indigenous history

$35.00
xxhcd168544

The Lyalldale Waltz - A light-hearted look at rural life about South Canterbury over the past seventy years


THOMPSON, ISAAC M.

Lacks fep, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Kopje 1975

KEYWORDS: south canterbury history nz new zealand local history pareora estate farming

$12.00
xxfdk168810

The True Story of the Novel


DOODY, MARGARET ANNE

Super octavo softcover (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, com plete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Fontana/HarperCollins 1998

KEYWORDS: literature history novels evolution antiquity ancient history

$14.00
xxded169791

A Theatre in the House - The Carey's Globe


CAREY, ROSALIE

Super octavo softcover (nr FINE); 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 1999

KEYWORDS: nz history otago dunedin globe theatre history carey family

$350.00
1i1a/29

A Series of Thirty Engravings in Outline, From the Elgin Marbles


STEWART & HAYDON

Oblong quarto, blue light card wrappers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus, VG-/scruffy (heavy creasing & scuffing to cover edges & spine, light staining, heavy loss to bottom corners of rear pages - 13cm x 3cm sections - engravings still good, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: W. T. Robinson 1826

KEYWORDS: British Museum Elgin marbles engravings Stewart Haydon history antiquity ancient history Greece Greek drawings art

$25.00
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The Flight of the Emu : A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901- 2001


ROBIN, LIBBY

Imperial octavo, hardcover (nr FINE) in d/w (nr FINE); 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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: aus australia ornithology birds history zoology natural history

$15.00
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Provand's Lordship and Old Glasgow


Glasgow Museums

AVENELL, HELEN

oblong 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: Glasgow City Council 2004

KEYWORDS: glasgow scotland scottish history city history provand's lordship

$55.00
1w12a/28

Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East 1576-1626


BARBOUR, RICHMOND

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 238pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, v sl foxing to page edges & rear eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: trade history India England Indian English illustrated business drama theatre history

$300.00
1y7a/41

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (18 Vol Set)


N/A

HEAVY 18 VOLUME SET- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, quarto, blue plastic boards (folders), silver gilt lettering to spines, approx. 12x illus individual issues to each folder, VG (moderate chafing & soiling to boards, spines heavily cocked, light soiling & foxing to some issues)

PUBLISHER: Orbis N/D

KEYWORDS: aviation history military international engineering aircraft history encyclopedia encyclopaedia periodicals

$15.00
xxzcc173560

The Gringo in Latin America


WEST, RICHARD & BULMER, JOHN (Illus)

EX-LIBRARY, sm 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: Jonathan Cape 1967

KEYWORDS: latin America politics geopolitics history anthropology history culture

$15.00
xxepa174452

Rich Dessert's & Captain's Thin: A Family and Their Times 1831-1931


FORSTER, MARGARET

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 2010

KEYWORDS: history nonfiction carr's of carlisle family business history baking

$20.00
xxrgd175181

Men Who Blazed the Trail: Stories of the Churche's Pioneers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand


DEBENHAM, MARY H.

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1926

KEYWORDS: pioneer settler history missionaries colonisation new zealand history religion christian christianity

$35.00
xxrma175401

Whaling in Southern Waters


TOD, FRANK

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Frank Tod 1982

KEYWORDS: whaling maritime history colonial new zealand history aotearoa nz

$20.00
xxrma175415

Medieval Women


POWER, EILEEN: LE ROY LADURIE, EMMANUEL (forew.)

In slipcase. Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in case (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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2001

KEYWORDS: medieval women women's history womens gender roles in europe european history the folio society

$40.00
1y46b/8

The Maorilander: A Study of William Satchell


WILSON, PHILLIP

OWNERSHIP OF NORTHLAND HISTORIAN KAY BOESE, octavo, orange cloth boards, black lettering to spine, 163pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges & flaps, light to moderate chafing & soiling to covers & spine)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1961

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors history literature literary biography memoir criticism William Satchell history

$25.00
xxpgi175917

The Anthropology of St. Catherines Island: 1. Natural and Cultural History


Volume 55 : Part 2, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History

THOMAS, DAVID HURST & JONES, GRANT D. & DURHAM, ROGER S. & LARSEN, CLARK SPENCER

Super octavo staped wrappers (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:

KEYWORDS: anthropological papers of the american museum of natural history st catherines island colonisation colonialism natural history flora fauna

$30.00
xxpkl176128

Your Guide to the Old West


CROMIE, ALICE

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Quadrangle 1977

KEYWORDS: wild west travel guide tour settlements forts museums battlegrounds landmarks relics cowboys history american history usa united states of america

$16.50
xxpof176296

The Iron House: A Memoir of the Chinese Democracy Movement and the Tiananmen Massacre


DUKE, MICHAEL S.

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Gibbs Smith 1990

KEYWORDS: history memoir biography autobiography tiananmen square massacre chinese communist history democracy movement party

$16.50
xxyaa176354

The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600


HANSEN, VALERIE

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: W.W. Norton & Co. 2000

KEYWORDS: china history chinese premodern early history shang zhou conquest confucius buddhism song dynasty mongols ming

$15.00
xxyba176597

The Streets of Hampstead: A New Survey of Their Origins and Names, Their Historic Houses and Notable Residents


WADE, CHRISTOPHER

Oblong super octavo stapled wrappers (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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: High Hill Press 1984

KEYWORDS: England English history London Hampstead topography natural history

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