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$17.50
xxefe44564

Nursing in South Australia: First Hundred Years 1837-1937


SOUTH AUSTRALIAN NURSING

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: South Australian Trained Nurses Centenary Committee 1939

KEYWORDS: specials South Australia nursing nurses history centenary biography memoir hospitals medicine Year Book

$95.00
1i49/29

The Albertlanders: Brave Pioneers of the 'Sixties


BRETT, HENRY & HOOK, HENRY

Octavo, maroon heavy card boards with gijlt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 436pp + x14 pp index, illus, VG (bruising to spine extrems, inscription in ink to front pastedown, foxing to page edges and eps) in G+ d/w (7cm closed tear to upper rear, 2x5cm loss to lower spine, tears to upper spine, 1x3cm loss to upper front, fading & soiling, some creasing, archival repair to d/w)

PUBLISHER: Copper Press Reprint 1979 (reprint of Brett Printing Co 1927)

KEYWORDS: Sir Henry Brett Henry Hook New Zealand history pioneers settlers Oruawharo Paparoa Matakohe Maungatoroto Port Albert Albertland Matilda Wattenbach Hanover Tyburnia

$14.00
xxefd44543

Feudal Britain: The Completion of the Medieval Kingdom 1066-1314


BARROW, G. W. S

Super octavo 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold 1971

KEYWORDS: specials GWS Barrow British history Wales Scotland England

$17.50
xxefe44552

Impressions of Steam


Photography by Robert Berlzer, Robert Carlisle, Ken Macleay, Ted Payne, Arthur Wills

MCCARTHY, SHANE

Oblong 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1975

KEYWORDS: specials Shane McCarthy railways steam trains locomotives New Zealand Australia photographs history steam engines transport

$10.00
xxefe44571

William Shakespeare


MASEFIELD, JOHN

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Mercury Books 1964

KEYWORDS: specials John Masefield William Shakespeare biography history literary criticism drama literature poetry verse poems theatre

$14.00
xxefe44573

Mrs Grundy: Studies in English Prudery


FRYER, PETER

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Corgi Books 1965

KEYWORDS: specials Peter Fryer England English history sexuality behaviour taboo inhibition prudery language

$62.50
xxefe44599

Urban Village: The Story of Ponsonby, Freemans Bay and St Mary's Bay


CARLYON, JENNY & MORROW, DIANA

Oblong quarto softcover (Nr 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Random House 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Jenny Carlyon Diana Morrow New Zealand Auckland Ponsonby Freemans Bay St Mary's Bay history architecture buildings churches villas neighbourhoods commerce businesses

$20.00
xxefe44603

New Zealand Tragedies: Fires and Firefighting


MCLEAN, GAVIN

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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Grantham House 1992

KEYWORDS: specials Gavin McLean New Zealand history fires volunteer fire brigades fire engines disasters tragedies

$75.00
1i49/34

Ann Illustrated Guide to British Jugs from Medieval Times to the Twentieth Century


HENRYWOOD, R. K

Quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, nr fine (very very slight bruising to lower spine) in VG d/w (soiling to front edges, rubbing to rear)

PUBLISHER: Swan Hill Press 1997

KEYWORDS: RK Henrywood British jugs design history pottery ceramics collectibles collectors illustrated guide dealers reference

$8.50
xxeff44620

A History of Modern China


LATOURETTE, KENNETH SCOTT

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Pelican Penguin 1956

KEYWORDS: specials Kenneth Latourette China history

$9.00
xxefd44622

As I Was Going Down Sackville Street


GOGARTY, OLIVER ST JOHN

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1954

KEYWORDS: specials Oliver St John Gogarty Irish literature Ireland biography Dublin history

$12.00
xxeff44624

Prometheus: The Life of Balzac


MAUROIS, ANDRE

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Penguin Biographies 1971

KEYWORDS: specials Andre Maurois Honore de Balzac biography French literary history

$35.00
1i49/43

Travel in New Zealand: The Island Dominion: Its Life and Scenery, Pleasure-routes and sport


Volume II The South Island

COWAN, JAMES

This volume only, octavo, illustrated heavy card boards, frontispiece, ii adverts + xii + 178pp, illus, VG (rubbing & fraying to spine, soiling spots to boards, browning to front and rear eps, gutter at vii cracked)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1926

KEYWORDS: James Cowan New Zealand tourism travel history South Island

$37.50
xxeff44638

The History of the Last Quarter-Century in the United States 1870-1895


With more than 350 illustrations

ANDREWS, E. BENJAMIN

2 volume set (HEAVY), super octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering & design (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1896

KEYWORDS: specials Benjamin E Andrews American history USA 1870-1895

$45.00
1i50/7

Airliner Colour History: McDonnell Douglas MD-80 & MD-90


PEARCY, ARTHUR

Quarto, illustrated light card covers with white lettering to spine, 128pp, illustrated, nr fine (slight soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: MBI Publishing Company 1999

KEYWORDS: Arthur Pearcy McDonnell Douglas aircraft aeroplanes civil aviation history MD80 MD90 Pratt & Whitney

$12.00
xxegc44921

In Crocodile Land; Wandering in Northern Australia


IDRIESS, ION L.

hardcover octavo (VG) lacks d/w; 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1950

KEYWORDS: history australia travel exploration ion l. idriess specials

$16.50
xxegc44861

Wellington Railway Memories


MCCLARE, G. J. & THOMSON, R. G.

paperback 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: nz railway and locomotive society inc.

KEYWORDS: specials wellington railway trains history transport travel

$20.00
xxega44707

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia


FIGES, ORLANDO

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2003

KEYWORDS: specials Orlando Figes Russia history sociology politics communism

$16.50
xxegc44810

Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth


FLEMING, GWYN

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1985

KEYWORDS: alexander fleming biography medical history penicillin gwyn fleming specials

$9.00
xxegc44816

Basic Documents in Medieval History


DOWNS, NORTON

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Van Nostrand 1959

KEYWORDS: europe medieval history norton downs specials

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