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$22.50
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Sail in the South


PARSONS, RONALD

Quarto 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: A H & A W Reed 1976

KEYWORDS: marime nautical history sailing history Australia Australian New Zealand ships vessels

$16.50
xxqgj211085

My Father's Island: A Galapagos Quest


ANGERMEYER, JOHANNA

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: Viking / Penguin 1989

KEYWORDS: pacific islands Galapagos island history exploration adventure Hans Angermeyer travel history literature

$10.00
xx18pol211774

The Coming of the Maoris to Aotearoa


REED, A W & DANSEY, H D B (Illus)

RE-BACKED, octavo stapled 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: A H & A W Reed 1953

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Maori culture heritage history anthropology migration

$150.00
ak5/3/7

Catalogue of the Natural History Drawings Commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 (Held in the British Museum (Natural History)) Part 1: Botany: Australia


DIMENT, JUDITH A & HUMPHRIES, CHRISTOPHER J & NEWINGTON, LINDA & SHAUGHNESSY, ELAINE

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 183pp, illus, VG+ (sl fading to spine & boards, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning to top edge of title page, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear ep, minor creasing to bottom corner of page block)

PUBLISHER: Meckler Publishing / British Museum (Natural History) 1984

KEYWORDS: Joseph Banks nature naturalists Endeavour voyages history historical catalogues British Museum Natural History botany Australia 18th eighteenth century art drawings

$40.00
ak5/3/11

The History of Zoology in Western Australia; Discoveries in the 17th Century


ALEXANDER, W B

Octavo, beige stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 20pp, VG (light to moderate soiling & foxing to covers/edges, minor soiling & tanning to page edges, light rusting of stapled to central gutter)

PUBLISHER: V K Jones & Co 1914

KEYWORDS: zoology Australia history historical discoveries 17th seventeenth century natural history

$40.00
ak5/3/20

The Identity of Captain Cook's Kangaroo (pgs 43-50, pls 3-5)


MORRISON-SCOTT, T C S & SAWYER, F C

Imperial octavo, beige light card covers, black lettering to covers, pgs 43-50, illus/plates, VG+ (prev. owner's name in ink to front cover, light wrinkling & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1950

KEYWORDS: British Museum bulletins zoology natural history Captain Cook kangaroos Australia Australian animals history exploration discoveries

$50.00
2s7b/12

Innovation and Specialisation: The Story of Shipbuilding in Finland


ID, KALLE & PETER, BRUCE

4to, pp. 328; illus. heavy card boards; illus. tp, photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Nautilus 2017

KEYWORDS: Kalle Id Bruce Peter Finland shipbuilding ship ships building maritime history industry technology history

$100.00
2g13c/32

The History of the Worthies of England


FULLER, THOMAS; NUTALL, P AUSTIN (notes)

Three volume set. Rebacked, retaining original bdg. Demy 8vo, pp. xxx + 582 + 8 (advts), xii + 591, xii + 584; brown cl boards, boards paneled & decorated in arabesques, spine lettered in gilt; frontis. (v.1 only), top & fore edges sl deckled; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate to heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals)., some unopened pgs;

PUBLISHER: Thomas Tegg 1860

KEYWORDS: Thomas Fuller England English history worthies directory county counties directories occupations social history

$45.00
2f9e/17

Homer and the Monuments


LORIMER, H L

Super 8vo, pp. xxiv + 552; blue buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; top pg edge stained red, illus., 32 plates; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to ffep); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning & foxing; price clipped).

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co. 1950

KEYWORDS: Homer Homeric Greece Greek ancient classical history antiquities archaeology history

$100.00
1h15a/13

Petrol Company (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45)


KIDSON, A L

LACKS D/W, tidy ex-library, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 363pp, illus/folding maps, VG (usual library markings/stamps, spine sl cocked, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs / War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs 1961

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history official history guides ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Petrol Company army corps

$40.00
1j19a/12

British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report ; Botany. Part III, Pp 29-76: Lichens


DARBISHIRE, O V

Quarto, grey light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, Pps 29-76 + plates to rear, VG (moderate cracking/tearing to spine, light tanning to spine & cover edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, some minor closed tearing to top edges of some pages)

PUBLISHER: British Museum (Natural History) 1923

KEYWORDS: British Antarctic expeditions exploration botany natural history south pole Antarctica history historical lichen lichens Terra Nova reports

$22.50
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Borromini


BLUNT, ANTHONY

Super 8vo softcover (VG), some annotations; 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 Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press

KEYWORDS: Anthony Blunt Borromini architecture history art history historian life lives

$27.50
xxafb213470

Tibet: Land of Snows


TUCCI, GIUSEPPE & DRIVER, J E STAPLETON (Trans)

Quarto hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; 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: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co 1967

KEYWORDS: Tibet history culture heritage art history

$20.00
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Memories of a Bygone Era


ROBERTSON, MAIDIE

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: Marjorie Hall (Maidie) Robertson 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers early settlers family history Phillips Robertson

$60.00
1w48a/14

Salt and Civilization


ADSHEAD, S A M

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 417pp, VG (spine cocked, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, strip of moderate tanning to half title page) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing/wrinkling & peeling to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling, 1cm closed tear to top edge of front cover)

PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 1992

KEYWORDS: history culture salt commodities history historical antiquity

$35.00
xxsek215002

The Facts of Life


PORTER, ROY & HALL, LESLEY

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: Yale University Press 1995

KEYWORDS: Great Britain British history sex sexual social history

$20.00
xxsib215249

A Bright & Savage Land: Scientists in Colonial Australia


MOYAL, ANN

Quarto 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: William Collins 1986

KEYWORDS: colonial Australia history naturalists botany botanists scientists history

$40.00
ak5/9/18

Captain William Crush Daldy 1816-1903


DUGDALE, LESLEY N

Octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 236pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges, light tanning to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning/fading to spine, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Heritage Press 1993

KEYWORDS: Captain William Crush Daldy history biography biographies memoir history New Zealand early settlers pioneers

$300.00
ak5/15/8

The Rooper Story


ROOPER, JOHN ROYDON (Compiled by)

NOTE FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, xix + 290pp, illus/folding charts, VG (light to moderate fading & warping to spine, sl soiling to front board, moderate staining to rear board, spine cocked, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: S Straker & Sons (Printer) 1958

KEYWORDS: family history Rooper history genealogy

$20.00
xxcoe216426

Te Puea: A Life


KING, 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: Raupo / Penguin 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history Te Puea Herangi biography biographies memoir history Michael King

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