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$40.00
2f13/10

Proverbs; A Handbook


MIEDER, WOLFGANG

octavo, illus heavy card boards, xvi + 305pp, illus, near fine, lacks d/w

PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press 2004

KEYWORDS: folklore proverbs religion wolfgang mieder history sociology anthropology

$75.00
2f13/13

No Struggle, No Progress Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights


MIEDER, WOLFGANG

octavo, illus heavy card boards, vii + 532pp, near fine, lacks d/w

PUBLISHER: Peter Lang 2001

KEYWORDS: biography proverbs history civil rights sociology wolfgang mieder frederick douglass

$150.00
2f13/14

The Truth of Life as disclosed in half a century of the National Life of New Zealand


DALZIELL, F.G.

first edition, SCARCE, octavo, green cloth boards with black lettering to front board and spine, iii + 219pp, VG+ (light wear, faint stain to front board, light tanning), lacks d/w

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1919

KEYWORDS: first edition new zealand history f.g. dalziell autobiography

$45.00
1h13a/02

Sorbian Proverbs: Serbske Prislowa


HOSE, SUSANNE & MIEDER, WOLFGANG (Eds)

Octavo, light card covers with green lettering & drawing, 149pp, illus, VG+ (slight fault or rub mark to left hand side of front cover - would be fine without this)

PUBLISHER: University of Vermont 2004

KEYWORDS: Susanne Hose Wolfgang Mieder proverbs history English German Sorbian languages literature anthropology Germany

$55.00
1h13a/03

Memorable Men of the Nineteenth Century: The Stephensons and other Railway Pioneers


LAYSON, J. F

Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and black rule to spine and boards, aeg, frontispiece, 304pp, VG- (fading, staining and spotting to boards, particularly front board, bruising to board edges, particularly spine extrems, 2cm black stain to front edge of front board, Brighton Public Library rules pasted on front paste down, gutter broken at rear and cracked at front, fading to prelims, fading & staining to rear eps, light foxing, fingerprint marks to some pages)

PUBLISHER: National Publishing Company (date ??)

KEYWORDS: J F Layson science railways steam engines George Stephenson Isambard Kingdom Brunel engineering Richard Trevithick William Hedley Timothy Hackworth railroads history

$34.50
1h13a/05

The Progress of New Zealand in the Century


IRVINE, R. F & ALPERS, O. T. J

octavo, brown cloth boards with leather spine & leather board edges, gilt lettering to spine VG tidy copy

PUBLISHER: W & R Chambers Ltd 1902

KEYWORDS: RF Irvine OTJ Alpers New Zealand history Maori European arrival wars Waitangi

$50.00
1h13a/15

A Sketch of Otago, from the initiation of the settlement, to the abolition of the province with a record of all the important events in its history, chronologically arranged, together with statistical


MCINDOE, JAS.

octavo, marbled boards, 8pp adverts + 152pp, illus including folding diagrams (VG), good (heavy wear, both gutters cracked, closed tears to spine, discolouration to pages, ink markings to prelims and throughout text, occasional foxing)

PUBLISHER: R.T. Wheeler 1878

KEYWORDS: new zealand history otago jas. Mcindoe

$320.00
1h13a/16

The History of Scotland


From Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection

BURTON, JOHN HILL

eight volumes + index volume, duodecimo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt device to front board, black decorative rule to front board and spine, all volumes VG (tidy condition, light wear to extremities, light tanning, small ink mark to prelims of volume I, corner of fep of volume vii missing)

PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1876

KEYWORDS: history scotland john hill burton agricola jacobite insurrection

$17.50
xxeba43060

Doing Proverbs And Other Kinds of Folklore; Philological and Historical Studies


DOYLE, CHARLES CLAY

softcover octavo (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: The University of Vermont 2012

KEYWORDS: proverbs history languages charles clay doyle specials

$17.50
xxeba43061

International Bibliography of Paremiography; Collections of Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions and Comparisons, Quotations, Graffiti, Slang, and Wellerisms


MIEDER, WOLFGANG

softcover octavo (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: The University of Vermont 2011

KEYWORDS: proverbs languages history wolfgang mieder linguistics specials

$8.50
xxebb43112

Night Sky


FRANCIS, CLARE

paperback octavo (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

KEYWORDS: specials clare francis thriller history fiction

$8.50
xxebb43118

Kilcaraig


CAROTHERS, ANNABEL

paperback octavo (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

KEYWORDS: specials annabel carothers history literature fiction

$8.50
xxebb43123

Voices on the Wind


ANTHONY, EVELYN

paperback octavo (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: arrow books

KEYWORDS: specials evelyn anthony history fiction

$18.50
xxebc43133

South with Scott


EVANS, E.R.G.R. ADMIRAL

hardback octavo, folding maps at rear, with d/w, chipped spine, bumped corners (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: collins

KEYWORDS: specials travel antarctica explorers adventure robert falcon scott expedition admiral evans south history

$12.00
xxebc43136

The Day That Shook The World: Understanding September 11th


BAXTER, JENNY & DOWNING, MALCOLM (eds.)

paperback octavo (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: abc books

KEYWORDS: specials history america disaster journalism 9/11 politics bbc trade center

$25.00
xxebc43149

Branch Lines to Enfield Town and Palace Gates


CONNOR, JIM E. & MITCHELL VIC (series ed.)

first edition, hardback quarto (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: middleton press

KEYWORDS: specials vic mitchell trains railways travel history stations transport britain england jim connor

$15.00
xxebc43158

The Way We Were: Pictorial Memories of Early New Zealand - Dunedin / Coastal Otago


DAVIES, VALERIE

Oblong 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: moa beckett

KEYWORDS: specials new zealand history dunedin coastal otago photography valerie davies

$75.00
1h13a/39

Destination Mecca


SHAH, SAYED IDRIES

First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name ink stamped to fep, faded strip to front & rear eps, foxing to page edges) in VG- d/w (edges taped reinforcement, bruising to edges, soiling to rear)

PUBLISHER: Rider and Company 1957

KEYWORDS: Sayed Idries Shah travel Arab Tangier Kabul Saudi Arabia Mecca history Jordan

$35.00
xxebc43193

Seabirds; A Natural History


GASTON, ANTHONY J.

hardcover imperial octavo (near fine) d/w (near fine)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: natural history ornithology sea birds anthony j. gaston specials

$10.00
xxebd43215

Fergus: A Memoir of Fergus Blair McLaren by His Friends


STEWART, WM DOWNIE (Ed) [MCLAREN, FERGUS]

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: AH & AW Reed 1951

KEYWORDS: specials Fergus Blair McLaren biography New Zealand memoir essays history scouts religion

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