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$25.00
xxa3af190716

Pre-Christian Ireland: From the First Settlers to the Early Celts


With 139 Illustrations

HARBISON, PETER & SOERGEL-HARBISON, EDELGARD (illus.)

Imperial 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. All online listings are held in our Dunedin shop.

PUBLISHER: Guild Publishing London 1988

KEYWORDS: pre-christian pagan ireland irish history celts celtic peter harbison history

$18.50
xxa3be170936

The Making of Russell McVeagh


STONE, R. C. J.

Ex-library, ownership of Historian Judith Bassett, 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. All online listings are held in Dunedin

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: Russell McVeagh McKenzie Bartleet & Co history New Zealand law history lawyers legal

$40.00
1f17a/31

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution


SHUKMAN, HAROLD (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xiv + 418pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading & scuffing to board edges & extrems, sl foxing to page egdes) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine & edges, light chafing & creasing)

PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1988

KEYWORDS: first editions encyclopedias encyclopaedias Russia Russian revolution history politics history chronology

$40.00
1f17a/44

Women and Work in Russia 1880-1930: A Study in Continuity Through Change


MCDERMID, JANE & HILLYAR, ANNA

Octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, ix + 236pp, VG+ (light bruising/creasing to spine, moderate fading to spine & covers, sl chafing to covers, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Addison Wesley Longman 1998

KEYWORDS: women history labour labor force work Russia Russian history politics economy economics gender

$27.50
xxa3dg171575

Auckland's Historical Background: Its Relation to Central City Planning


DUDER, B. & WINSTONE, J. & WARREN, T.J.

OWNERSHIP OF GRAHAM BUSH; 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: Auckland City Council Dept. of Works and Services 1969

KEYWORDS: auckland history geography city planning new zealand north island local history

$20.00
xxa3ef171856

Octobrists to Bolsheviks; Imperial Russia 1905-1917


MCCAULEY, MARTIN & WALDRON, PETER (assisted by)

Octavo softcover (VG-, a couple of sections coming detached but all present, good clean reading copy) ; 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: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd 1984

KEYWORDS: martin mccauley documents of modern history series octobrists bolsheviks bolshevism imperial tsarist russian 1905 1917 revolutions nicholas ii soviet union history politics duma parliament government

$25.00
os3/12

Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History


ISAACS, JENNIFER (Compiled & Ed)

Folio 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: Lansdowne Press 1987

KEYWORDS: history Australia Australian indigenous people Aborigine Aboriginal ancient history anthropology antiquity

$40.00
1i19a/9

Exploring Southeast Asia's Economic Past (AEHR XXXI: 1 March 1991)


SNOOKS, G D (Ed) & REID, A J S (Ed) & PINCUS, J J (Ed)

Super octavo, illus light card covers, blue lettering to spine & covers, 103pp, VG (moderate creasing & chafing/soiling to spine & covers, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate pencil underlining & highlighting to text)

PUBLISHER: Australian Economic History Review 1991

KEYWORDS: Australian Economic History Review past issues March 1991 southeast Asia economic history economics Thailand Vietnam French empire

$25.00
xxa3eg171973

P-47 Thunderbolt


HESS, WILLIAM N

Imperial 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: Motorbooks 1994

KEYWORDS: military history aviation p-47 thunderbolt aircraft fighter planes history design development engineering

$20.00
xxzek172313

A Naturalist and a Gentleman; Charles Traill of Ulva, 1826-1891; A note on his life and extracts from some of his letters


NATUSCH, SHEILA (TRAILL)

Octavo illus. spiral bound light card covers (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: Nestegg 1999

KEYWORDS: sheila natusch charles traill ulva island stewart new zealand naturalist natural history biography letters extracts history

$18.50
xxe3ab172400

Longtime Californ': A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown


VICTOR G and BRETT DE BARY NEE

Tidy ex-library- possibly unread, 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: Pantheon Books / Random House 1973

KEYWORDS: history America US American Chinatown China Town social history

$18.50
xxe3ae172490

Sacred Rage: The Crusade of Modern Islam


WRIGHT, ROBIN

FIRST EDITION, 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: Andre Deutsch 1986

KEYWORDS: first editions history Islam extremism terrorism modern history conflict

$65.00
1j42b/10

Police Science, 1964-1984: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography


BAILEY, WILLIAM G

Very tidy ex-library, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiii + 277pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl adhesive residue to boards)

PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1986

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues police science history crime history

$20.00
xxrnf173052

The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin


DE JONGE, ALEX

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: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan 1982

KEYWORDS: Grigorii Rasputin tthe Mad Monk biographies memoir Russia Russian Soviet history court courtiers history

$25.00
xxrlh173127

Russian Autocrats from Ivan the Great to the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty: An Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources to 1985


EGAN, DAVID R and MELINDA A

Tidy ex-library- possibly unread, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Scarecrow Press 1987

KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues Russia Russian Soviet history autocrats information resources history historical

$450.00
1n25a/18

An Atlas of Modern Geography


BUTLER, SAMUEL

Octavo, half faux leather bound marbled boards- rebound, title plate with black lettering to front board, xxiii maps- all present + 32pp prefatory note & index to rear, VG (modern/rebound spine & eps, heavy chafing & surface loss to board extrems & boards, heavy tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, purple ink remnants & pencil to prelims & terminals- prev. owner, bookbinder's ink stamp to rear pastedown, NZ hand drawn on to map xxiii in pencil, considerable pencil annotation to back of map xxiii also, occasional light staining/foxing to some maps throughout)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman N/D (c.1826)

KEYWORDS: Samuel Butler maps geography cartography history history historical atlases

$19.50
xxrjg193373

The Zulu War; A Pictorial History


BARTHORP, MICHAEL

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: Blandford Press 1987

KEYWORDS: michael barthorp zulu war pictorial history zululand south africa boer britain british empire imperialism colonialism military history combat warfare photo illustrated

$40.00
1r12a/16

Dunedin; Early Photographs


KNIGHT, HARDWICKE

Ex-library; Oblong octavo, illus light card covers with plastic adhesive protective covers, spine reinforced with twine & black tape (originally spiral bound - now removed), unpaginated, illus. 20 black & white photo plates, VG- (light rubbing/soiling & moderately heavy sun-fading/tanning to covers, moderate creasing to cover & some page corners, light soiling/discolouration throughout including to page edges & plates, light dampstaining to top fore-edge impacting most plates, 4x7cm section cut-out of final blank page, usual library markings/stamps/barcodes to covers, text block, prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1985

KEYWORDS: ex-library hardwicke knight dunedin early photographs photographic photography photos history otago south island new zealand early settler colonial pictorial history

$30.00
xxrgi193512

Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household


TINNISWOOD, ADRIAN

FIRST US EDITION; 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: Basic Books 2018

KEYWORDS: first edition adrian tinniswood britain british england english monarchy servant servants staff domestic history royals royalty history ,

$140.00
1r34a/10

The Looting of Nicaragua


DE NOGALES, RAFAEL

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiii + 251pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate fading & soiling to spine, moderate chafing & fading to front board, 2cm closed tear- mended- to front board, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps with prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page & rear ep, moderate foxing thorughout, light cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Wright & Brown N/D (c.1920s?)

KEYWORDS: first editions literature Nicaragua Rafael de Nogales Latin South America history politics political history

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