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$125.00
3g3/25

The Journal of William Lockerby: Sandalwood Trader in the Fijian Islands During the Years 1808 - 1809 with an Introduction & Other Papers Connected with the Earliest European Visitors to the Islands


PATTERSON, SAMUEL & SIDDON, RICHARD & LOCKERBY, WILLIAM & THURN, EVERARD IM (ed) & WHARTON, LEONARD C (ed)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, blind stamped border & gilt stamped ship decoration to boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled edges, cxi + 249pp, frontispiece, 3x folding maps to rear pocket (all complete) VG+ (slight brusing & scuffing to board edges & spine, v slight foxing & tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & soiling to pastedowns, fep/rep & half title page, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: The Haklyut Society Second Series No. LII Issued for 1922

KEYWORDS: first edition haklyut society william lockerby sandalwood trader trade fiji fijian islands nineteenth century polynesian history

$45.00
3g3/26

The Crisis of the Twelth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government


BISSON, THOMAS N

Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxviii + 677pp, illus, Nr FINE (slight bruising to board edges, v slight soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing to corners, light soiling tanning & fading to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: twelth century thomas n bisson european politics political history analysis power lordship

$110.00
3g3/28

Memoir of the Life and Episcopate of George Augustus Selwyn: Bishop of New Zealand 1841-1869; Bishop of Lichfield 1867-1878 [in two volumes]


TUCKER, H W

IN TWO VOLUMES, REBOUND FOR LIBRARY USE, super octavo, black leather binding, gilt ruled border to boards, gilt stamped decoration to boards, gilt decoration, leather raised bands & gilt lettering to spines, all page edges marbled, marbled eps, frontispieces, mixed pagination, varied illustration maps/lithographs/charts/facsimile journal pages, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to boards, edges & spines, moderate scuffing and cracking to hinges (secure), light soiling & fading to boards, edges & spines, sporadic slight foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: William Wells Gardner 1879

KEYWORDS: archbishop bishop of new zealand george augustus selwyn anglican new zealand history

$60.00
3g3/29

Our New Zealand Cousins


INGLIS, JAMES

INSCRIBED WITH THE AUTHOR'S COMPLIMENTS, small octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to boards & spine, gilt bands to spine, illus eps, xii + 311pp + 32ads, VG (light brusing to boards & spine, v slight scuffing to edges of boards, light to moderate foxing to page edges & ads to rear, heavy tanning to fep & half title page, previous owner's name in ink to pastedown & fep, previous bookseller's label to pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington 1887

KEYWORDS: james inglis travelogue new zealand aotearoa travel writing colonial history

$55.00
3g2/2

Sowers of Thunder: Giants in Myth and History


ROBERTS, ANTHONY

Octavo, illus light card wrappers, black, brown & white text to wrapper, xvi + 194 pp, illus, VG+ (v slight rubbing to edges of wrapper, light tanning & fading to wrapper, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Rider & Company 1978

KEYWORDS: anthony roberts myth history gogmagog cornish british giants esotericisms titans albion british isles united kingdom folklore europe european king anak hoerbiger

$40.00
3g2/4

Festivals of the Athenians


PARKE, H W

Octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt publishers stamp to front board, gilt lettering to spine, 208pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to edges of boards & spine, light to moderate tanning & soiling to pastedowns, prelims/terminals & page edges) in d/w VG- (moderate to heavy tanning & fading to jacket, 2cm open tear to front corner of jacket, slight scuffing to edges of jacket)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1977

KEYWORDS: ancient greek athenian athens religion religious history classical h w parke

$40.00
3g2/5

The Saga of Themistocles


LENARDON, ROBERT J

Octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt publishers stamp to front board, gilt lettering to spine, 248pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing to edges of boards & spine, light to moderate tanning & soiling to pastedowns, prelims/terminals & page edges, diagonal section cut from fep with remnant of previous owner's name in ink) in d/w VG (moderate tanning & fading to jacket, light soiling to jacket, slight scuffing to edges of jacket)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1978

KEYWORDS: ancient greek themistocles robert j lenardon grecian history classical

$40.00
3g2/6

Greek and Roman Voting and Elections


STAVELY, E S

Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt publishers stamp to front board, gilt lettering to spine, 271pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to edges of boards & spine, light tanning & soiling to pastedowns, prelims/terminals & page edges) in d/w VG (light tanning & fading to jacket, light soiling to jacket, slight scuffing to edges of jacket)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1982

KEYWORDS: ancient greek history classical grecian political politics voting elections

$50.00
3g2/8

The Magistrates of the Roman Republic: Volume II; 99BC-31BC


BROUGHTON, T ROBERT S

THIS VOLUME ONLY, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 647pp + 89, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to edges of boards & spine, slight soiling to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & fep/rep)

PUBLISHER: American Philological Association Number XV Volume II 1968

KEYWORDS: roman republic magistrates t robert s broughton ancient history classical political politics

$200.00
3g2/9

The Nuremberg Chronicle: A Facsimile of Hartmann Schedel's Buch der Chroniken


SCHEDEL, HARTMANN & KOBERGER, ANTON (printed by)

Folio, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to black section on front board & spine, unpaginated prelims + 289pp, extensively illus/maps/diagrams, VG+ (v slight scuffing to board corners & spine, light to moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, v slight chafing to boards)

PUBLISHER: Landmark Press 1979

KEYWORDS: nuremberg chronicles german european history fifteenth century hartmann schedel anton koeberger

$65.00
3g2/11

Revolution in Judaea: Jesus and the Jewish Resistance


MACOBY, HYAM

Octavo blue heavy boards, quarter bound in red cloth, silver gilt lettering to spine, deckled edges, 256pp, VG+ (light fading & scuffing to boards & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate fading to spine, 2cm closed tear to front of jacket, light to moderate soiling to jacket, light tanning to jacket, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Taplinger Publishing Company 1980

KEYWORDS: ancient judaea revolution jesus abrahamic religions religiou history christian hyam macoby

$40.00
3g2/13

Tangata Whenua: A History


ANDERSON, ATHOLL & BINNEY, JUDITH & HARRIS, AROHA

Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, black & white text to spine & wrapper, viii + 536pp, Nr FINE (v slight rubbing to edges of wrapper, v slight soiling to page edges, previous owner's stamp to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2020

KEYWORDS: tangata whenua aotearoa new zealand history atholl anderson judith binney aroha harris

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