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$75.00
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The Wilds of Maoriland


MACKINTOSH BELL, JAMES

MAPS TO REAR, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiii + 257, illus/plates- not counted oresumed all present, folding maps to rear- counted & all present, VG- (moderate bruising to spine & extrems, light to moderate scuffing to board hinges & edges, boards lightly warped, spine lightly cocked, page edges, eps & pastedowns heavily soiled, light foxing & soiling throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters, map of central and southern alps lightly foxed, map of NZ heavily foxed, with some tearing to creases, both maps have small tears at the join)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co Limited 1914

KEYWORDS: maps james mackintosh bell maoriland maori aotearoa new zealand history natural botany

$47.50
3e2/44

DJ-Culture


POSCHARDT, ULF & WHITESIDE, SHAUN (trans)

Super octavo, white illus light card wrappers, black & red lettering to spine and cover, 473pp, VG+ (light soiling to wrapper, v slight scuffing to cover & edges, light foxing & tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Quartet Books 1998

KEYWORDS: dj ulf poschardt djing modern music history culture musicology

$145.00
3e1/18

Rulers of the Ancient World: Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Nero, Hannibal & Alexander the Great (5 Vol Boxed Set)


LINDSAY, JACK & MCLEISH, KENNETH (intro) & MEIER, CHRISTIAN & JONES, PETER (intro) & MCLINTOCK, DAVID (trans) & GRANT, MICHAEL & BRADFORD, ERNLE &

FIVE VOLUME BOXED SET, IN SLIPCASE, super octavo cloth boards (in navy, green, mustard, red, & purple respectively) copper gilt lettering to spine, copper gilt illus to front boards, illus eps, illus title page, xxiv + 392, xxvii + 222, xvii + 507, XXV + 254, xvi + 588, illus / maps / photos, Nr FINE (v slight fading to spines, v slight soiling to Julius Caesar's spine & boards, 2mm hole in cloth to Nero's spine, v slight soiling & light bruising to Alexander the Great's rear boards) in slipcase VG (lightly soiled & faded, light to moderate scuffing & bruising to rear upper edge, light to moderate staining to top & bottom)

PUBLISHER: Folio Society 1998

KEYWORDS: Jack Lindsay Kenneth McLeish Christian Meier Peter Jones David McLintock Michael Grant Ernle Bradford classics classical history ancient world Cleopatra Julius Caesar Nero Hannibal Alexander the Great

$225.00
3e1/21

The Library of Entertaining Knowledge: The New Zealanders


CRAIK, GEORGE LILLIE

Duodecimo brown heavy boards with blind stamp decoration & gilt border to boards, gilt decoration to spine, gilt lettering to green section of spine, brown speckling to page edges, marbled eps, iv + 424, illus / maps, VG+ (light to moderate scuffing to spine extrems & board corners, light scuffing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy soiling & tanning to page edges, prelims & terminals, previous owners' names in ink to prelims, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Charles Knight, Pall Mall East 1830

KEYWORDS: new zealand zealanders history george lillie craik nineteenth century

$65.00
3e1/23

Eastern Nights - and Flights: A Record of Oriental Adventure


BOTT, ALAN CONTACT'

Small octavo blue buckram boards, black lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 315pp, VG- (light to moderate bruising to spine & board extrems, minor fading/tanning to spine, slight scuffing & soiling to hinges & edges, moderate creasing to rear board, moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to page edges, light to moderate foxing to eps, sporadic light soiling to pages, previous owner's name in ink to fep & prelims, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons 1920

KEYWORDS: the great war first i world history memoir alan contact bott

$450.00
3f5/2

Siluria: The History of the Oldest Known Rocks containing Organic Remains; with a brief sketch of the distribution of Gold over the Earth


MURCHISON, SIR RODERICK IMPEY

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, half leatherbound green shiny cloth boards with gilt borders to leather, gilt lettering & decoration plus blind stamp decoration & raised bands to spine, speckled page edges, marbled eps, folding map to front, xvi + 523 + 37 plates- all counted & present, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spine with minor loss to some leatherwork at rear, light scuffing to front board & extrems, heavy foxing to most plates, other light foxing throughout, light tanning to page edges, prev. owners' names in ink to prelims)

PUBLISHER: John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1854

KEYWORDS: siluria paleontology fossils united kingdom history sir roderick impey murchison first edition

$245.00
3f5/3

The History of England in Three Volumes: The Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Reign of James II; From the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II; and From the Accession of George III to the Twenty-Third Year of theReign of Queen Victoria


HULME, DAVID & SMOLLETT, TOBIAS & FARR, E & NOLAN, E H

THREE VOLUME SET, imperial octavo, half leather bound green textured buckram boards with gilt border to leatherwork on boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spines, marbled page edges and eps, frontispieces with tissue guards, illus title pages, mixed pagination, illus, VG (moderate scuffing to leather work- some surface loss, light tanning & fading to page edges, prominent early Dunedinite's signature to feps [RCB Greenslade], prev bookseller's label to front pastedowns, heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, minor foxing & soiling to pages, 3cm tear to hinge of volume III, front gutter of volume III lightly cracked and board shaky, title page of volume III partially detached, coloured patch to spine of vol I rubbed away)

PUBLISHER: James S Virtue, City Road and Ivy Lane, London ca. 1860s??

KEYWORDS: history england david hulme tobias smollett e farr e h nolan

$40.00
3f5/6

Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa


TYRRELL, BARBARA (author & illus)

Quarto, cream illus boards, black lettering to boards & spine, illus eps, unpaginated prelims + 206pp, illus, VG- (moderate soiling to boards & spine, moderate bruising to spine & extrems, front gutter & gutter between p98-99 lightly cracked and board shaky, moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, prelims & terminals, light to moderate foxing throughout) in d/w G+ (4cm sections missing from top & bottom of spine & lower front corner of jacket, heavily tanned & foxed, moderate soiling, chafing & creasing to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Books of Africa 1968

KEYWORDS: africa southern barbara tyrrell art anthropology african history culture tribal religion shamanism

$25.00
xxrbc221560

Sallust


SYME, RONALD

LACKS D/W, super octavo hardcover (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: University of California Press 1964

KEYWORDS: ancient history Rome Romans Sallust

$22.50
xxrbc221561

From the Maccabees to the Mishnah (Third Edition)


COHEN, SHAYE J D

THIRD EDITION, 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: Westminster John Knox Press 2014

KEYWORDS: religion Judaism Jews Jewish history Hebrew literature

$30.00
xxrbc221562

On History


BRAUDEL, FERNAND & MATTHEWS, SARAH (Trans)

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1980

KEYWORDS: history Fernand Braudel

$22.50
xxrbc221563

Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis


GARNSEY, PETER

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) occasional pencil markings: 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: Cambridge University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: wealth distribution poeverty famine food history supply

$16.50
xxrbc221564

Conquerors and Slaves: Sociological Studies in Roman History, Volume 1


HOPKINS, KEITH

THIS VOL ONLY, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1980

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity Rome Roman slavery slaves social science sociology

$27.50
xxrbc221565

The Divinity of the Roman Emperor


TAYLOR, LILY ROSS

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Scholars Press N/D (Modern reprint of 1931 copy)

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity Roman emperors

$22.50
xxrbc221566

Libertas as a Political Idea at Rome During the Late Republic and Early Principate


WIRSZUBSKI, Ch

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: Cambridge University Press 1968

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity Rome Roman republic politics political Libertas

$14.50
xxrbe221571

Hitler's War Directives 1939-1945


TREVOR-ROPER, H R (Ed)

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1966

KEYWORDS: military history nazi Germany third reich Hitler ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$16.50
xxrbh221579

Josephus: The Historian and His Society


RAJAK, TESSA

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: Gerald Duckworth & Co 1983

KEYWORDS: Josephus antiquity ancient history historians

$22.50
xxrbi221600

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew


EHRMAN, BART D

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: religion theology Christianity history

$15.00
xxrbi221603

Life in Egypt Under Roman Rule


LEWIS, NAPHTALI

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: Oxford University Press 1985

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity Egypt Roman rule

$19.50
xxrbi221605

Jesus and the Chaos of History: Redirecting the Life of the Historical Jesus


CROSSLEY, JAMES G

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: Oxford University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: religion history Christianity Jesus

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