WALKER, SUSAN (Ed)

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: British Museum Press 2000

KEYWORDS: art history portraits Roman Egypt mummies

KILDEA, PAUL

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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2018

KEYWORDS: Frederic Chopin classical music composers preludes biography history memoir

CHURCHILL, RANDOLPH S

FIRST EDITION, TWO VOLUME SET, super octavo, red buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper edges dyed red, mixed pagination, VG+ (slight scuffing & rubbing to boards, spines & edges, slight bruising to spines, v slight soiling to page edges & pastedowns, vertical crease to spine of volume 1) in d/w VG (light chipping to edges, slight soiling & tanning to jackets, 1cm & 2cm closed tear to volume 1 jacket hinge)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1967

KEYWORDS: winston s churchill memoir biography history britain british randolph s churchill

ENTWISLE, PETER

SIGNED, REVISED EDITION, imperial octavo softcover, illus blue light card wrappers, white text to spine & wrapper, 300pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to edges of spine, wrapper & hinge crease, slight tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Port Daniel Press 1999

KEYWORDS: dunedin colonisation colonialism new zealand aotearoa history european pakeha maori relations otepoti otago peter entwisle signed

BOTT, ALAN (ed)

Imperial octavo, navy blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to front board & spine, illus prelim, 288pp, illus, VG+ (v slight scuffing to edges of spine, light foxing & soiling to upper page edges, light soiling to pastedowns, slight tanning to page edges) in d/w VG+ (v slight creasing & rubbing to edges, v slight tanning & foxing to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Scara 2009

KEYWORDS: british shipping maritime merchant navy ocl overseas containers limited logistics history alan bott

MARTIN, DARRYL

Quarto, light grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, Nr FINE (v slight bruising to spine, slight tanning to pages) in d/w VG+ (v slight creasing to edges, 3cm closed tear to front jacket hinge, v slight tanning to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 2012

KEYWORDS: harpsichord keyboard instrument making darryl martin musical history

ELDER, CHRIS (selected & edited by)

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, green & black text to spine & wrapper, illus eps, xxviii + 258pp, illus, VG+ (light fading & warping to spine, slight tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999

KEYWORDS: chris elder china british relations colonialism treaty ports shipping trade european american chinese history

SAWYER, L A & MITCHELL, W H & LINDSAY, JOHN S (drawings)

Imperial octavo, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 230pp, illus, VG (v slight bruising & rubbing to spine & edges, light to moderate foxing thoughout, damp staining to rear pastedown & rep, sporadic pen annotations throughout) in d/w VG (light fading & soiling to jacket, light to moderate chipping to spine, 1cm & 2cm closed tears to hinge of jacket, slight creasing to edges of jacket, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1974

KEYWORDS: victory ships tankers world war ii two america cargo ships history

ELDER, CHRIS (selected & edited by)

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, tan & black text to spine & wrapper, illus eps, ix + 302pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to spine, slight creasing to corner of wrapper, slight tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: chris elder china relations colonialism chinese history peking imperial china

COLLINS, BRUCE E

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, white text to spine & wrapper, illus prelim, 204pp, illus, VG+ (slight creasing to edges of wrapper & hinges, v slight soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Otago Maritime Society 2018

KEYWORDS: new zealand colonisation colonialism ship voyage immigration shipwreck shipping disaster tragedy nautical maritime history

TOMPKINS, ROBERT (BOB)

Oblong super octavo, illus light card wrappers, brown text to wrapper, tan text to spine, 316pp, VG (light to moderate creasing to wrapper, light soiling & fading to wrapper, light soiling 7 tanning to page edges, previous owner's label adhered to front inside cover & title page)

PUBLISHER: Nautical Association of Australia Inc 2008

KEYWORDS: merchant ships history australian new zealand shipping nautical south pacific robert bob tompkins

COWAN, JAMES

Small octavo, brown buckram boards, black illus & text to boards, black text to spine, xxi + 336pp, illus, G (heavy scuffing & soiling to boards, 8cm split to cloth along spine hinge, moderate insect damage to spine & boards, several gutters cracked, moderate to heavy soiling & foxing to pages, binding shaky, previous owner's name to pastedown & fep)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1911

KEYWORDS: kimble bent bushman history aotearoa new zealand maoriland colonial settler

HAVILLAND, CHARLOTTE (ed)

Oblong imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, blind stamped lettering to front board, illus title page, illus prelims, unpaginated prelims + 119pp, illus+folding map, VG+ (light bruising, soiling & rubbing to boards & spine, light foxing to page edges & first & last page, previous owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w VG+ (v slight creasing to edges, light soiling to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Butterfield & Swire, John Swire & Sons 1992

KEYWORDS: china navigation company chinese maritime nautical history trade relations

OLSSEN, ERIK & GRIFFEN, CLYDE & JONES, FRANK

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, yellow & white text to spine, 332pp, illus/graphs & charts, Nr FINE (v slight rubbing to wrapper corners, slight tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: new zealand political history egalitarian society gender relations social mobility class erik olssen clyde griffen frank jones systemic analysis dunedin urban social structure

ISIDORI HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI & ISIDORE OF SEVILLE & LINDSAY, W M (notes & instruction)

TWO VOLUME SET, TEXT IN LATIN, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, mixed pagination, VG+ (v slight rubbing to edges, light soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading & soiling to jacket, volume 1's jacket has 1cm closed tear to front & 2cm open tear to rear, previous bookseller's label residue to rear)

PUBLISHER: The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1985

KEYWORDS: text in latin isidore of seville isidori hispalensis episcopi history roman latin language grammar study

CASEY, MAURICE

Octavo, light blue light card wrappers, dark blue & white text to spine & wrapper, x + 210pp, VG+ (v slight chafing & creasing to wrapper, v slight soiling to inside cover)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2002

KEYWORDS: aramaic biblical history scripture Q bible sources gospel texts maurice casey matthew luke dead sea scrolls theology

CASEY, MAURICE

Octavo, light blue light card wrappers, dark blue & white text to spine & wrapper, x + 278pp, VG+ (v slight chafing & creasing to wrapper, slight soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: aramaic biblical history scripture Q bible sources gospel texts maurice casey mark dead sea scrolls theology

DICKIE, PAULA

Imperial octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, viii + 248pp, illus, Nr FINE (v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w VG+ (slight rubbing to edges, v slight soiling & fading to jacket)

PUBLISHER: The Gore Publishing Co 1988

KEYWORDS: paula dickie first edition croydon bush south island southland new zealand history gore

HEZSER, CATHERINE

Super octavo, grey light card wrappers, blue text to wrapper & spine, ix + 561pp, VG+ (slight rubbing to wrapper edges & spine, v slight soiling to wrapper & page edges)

PUBLISHER: J C B Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 2001

KEYWORDS: jewish literacy roman palestine levant middle eastern history catherine hezser

RIVET, A L F

Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 370pp, illus, VG (light to moderate colour loss to edges of boards where jacket had previously been affixed, v slight rubbing to edges of boards & spine, moderate soiling to page edges) in d/w VG- ( v slight rubbing to edges, moderate staining from boards to inside of jacket, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: B T Batsford Ltd 1988

KEYWORDS: gallia narbonensis alpes maritimae french southern france history roman empire europe a l f rivet