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$20.00
xxddm48697

Super in the South: The Early History of the Southland Co-operative Phosphate Co. Ltd


LIND, CLIVE A

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Southland Cooperative Phosphate Co 1983

KEYWORDS: specials Clive A Lind New Zealand Southland history Phosphate Cooperative fertiliser commerce business agriculture

$22.50
xxddm48709

The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages AD500-1600


MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: specials Samuiel Eliot Morison American history discovery exploration Cabots Verrazzano Gomez Cartier Gilbert Frobisher Raleigh

$20.00
xxddp48737

The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648: Bering's Precursor with Selected Documents


FISHER, RAYMOND H.

hardcover octavo (VG) 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: The Hakluyt Society 1981

KEYWORDS: raymond h. fisher history semen dezhnev bering specials

$20.00
xxddp48738

The English New England Voyages 1602-1608


QUINN, DAVID B. & QUINN, ALISON M. (eds)

hardcover octavo (VG) 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: The Hakluyt Society 1983

KEYWORDS: history exploration travel david b. quinn alison m. quinn new england specials

$20.00
xxddp48739

Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage 1585-86


KEELER, MARY FREAR (ed)

hardcover octavo (VG) 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: The Hakluyt Society 1981

KEYWORDS: sir francis drake mary frear keeler history west indian voyage travel exploration specials

$35.00
xxddp48740

The Growth of the American Republic (fifth edition)


MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT & COMMAGER, HENRY STEELE

two volume set in slipcase, hardcover octavo (VG) d/w vol 1 (VG) d/w vol 2 (VG-), slipcase (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 1962

KEYWORDS: united states of american american republic history politics samuel eliot morison henry steele commager specials

$48.50
2f16/33

From Tasman to Marsden: A History of Northern New Zealand From 1642 to 1818


MCNAB, ROBERT

Octavo, green cloth boards with black lettering to front board and gilt lettering to spine, xv + 236pp, VG (slight bruising to spine extrems, foxing & browning to page edges, browning to front & rear eps, foxing)

PUBLISHER: J Wilkie & Co 1914

KEYWORDS: Robert McNab New Zealand history Tasman Cook Kermadecs timber whaling te Pahi Boyd Marsden Bay of Islands

$17.50
2f16/38

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


DAVIES, VALERIE

Oblong quarto, illustrated light card covers, illus eps, 80pp, illus, nr fine (slight rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Moa Beckett 1994

KEYWORDS: Valerie Davies New Zealand pictorial history photography Dunedin Coastal Otago

$42.50
2d21a/19

The Honoured Society


LEWIS, NORMAN

First edition, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering in black background to spine, 254pp, illus, VG (ex libris label to fep, foxing & fading to prelims & page edges) in VG d/w (heavy tanning & foxing to interior, bruising to spine extrems & edges, chipping to corners, 2cm tear to rear upper left corner, browning to rear)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1964

KEYWORDS: first edition Norman Lewis mafia Sicily history Italy Sicilian life

$32.50
2f16/22

Norway


Black's Popular Series of Colour Books

HAMMER, S. C & COOPER, A. HEATON (Illus)

First edition, octavo, light blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind lettering & blind tooling to front board, frontispiece, vii + map + 196pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG- (heavy damp staining to boards & spine, inscription in ink to fep, foxing & browning throughout) in VG- d/w (bruising & nicks to spine extrems & adges & corners, crease to full length of rear, tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: A & C Black Ltd 1928

KEYWORDS: first edition SC Hammer A Heaton Cooper Norway travel tourism history landscape

$19.50
2f16/25

Dickens


ACKROYD, PETER

First edition, super octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, xvi + 1195pp. Illus, nr fine, in VG+ d/w (slight rubbing to front, sticker residue to front)

PUBLISHER: Sinclair Stevenson 1990

KEYWORDS: first edition Peter Ackroyd Charles Dickens biography history literary criticism

$19.50
xxddr48850

The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China


CARR, CALEB

Paperback octavo (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 1992

KEYWORDS: biography frederick townsend ward military history caleb carr specials

$27.50
xxddr48852

Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind


RICHARDSON, ROBERT D. jr

Paperback super 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 cost

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1996

KEYWORDS: henry thoreau biography literary history robert d. richardson jr specials

$18.50
xxcka48874

The Collector: David Douglas and The Natural History of the Northwest


NISBET, JACK

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Sasquatch Books 2009

KEYWORDS: specials jack nisbet david douglas natural history biography scotland nature pacific northwest

$14.00
xxcka48876

Nothing Like a Dame: A Biography of Dame Daphne Purves


ANDERSON, MOLLY

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: Hazard Press Publishers 1988

KEYWORDS: specials dame daphne purves biography molly anderson education dunedin otago new zealand history

$24.50
xxddq48826

Journal of Ensign Best 1837-1843


TAYLOR, NANCY M (Ed) [BEST, ENSIGN]

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: RE Own Government Printer 1966

KEYWORDS: specials Nancy Taylor Ensign Best history diary journal Norfolk Island Australia New Zealand sailor sea voyage

$14.00
xxddq48833

The Banjo of the Bush: The Work, Life and Times of A. B. Paterson


SEMMLER, CLEMENT

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in plastic-covered 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: Lansdowne Press 1975

KEYWORDS: specials Clement Semmler Banjo Paterson biography Australia history literary criticism

$25.00
1i28/60

Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries


Volume 1 The Nineteenth Century in Europe: Background and the Roman Catholic Phase

LATOURETTE, KENNETH SCOTT

This volume only, super octavo, royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges red, xiv + 498pp, VG+ (v slight bruising to spine extrems, tanning to front & rear eps, date stamp to front pastedown) in VG d/w (bruising to spine extrems, soiling to front & rear, price clipped, foxing)

PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1959

KEYWORDS: Kenneth Scott Latourette religion theology history Christianity Roman Catholicism

$25.00
1i28/61

Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries


Volume II The Nineteenth Century in Europe: The Protestant and Eastern Churches

LATOURETTE, KENNETH SCOTT

This volume only, super octavo, royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges red, ix + 532pp, VG+ (tanning to front & rear eps, date stamp & bookroom stamp to fep) in VG d/w (bruising to spine extrems, soiling to front & rear)

PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1960

KEYWORDS: Kenneth Scott Latourette religion theology history Christianity Protestant Eastern churches

$25.00
1i28/62

Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries


Volume III The Nineteenth Century outside Europe 1815-1914: The Americas, Pacific, Asia and Africa

LATOURETTE, KENNETH SCOTT

This volume only, super octavo, royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges red, viii + 527pp, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems, tanning to front & rear eps) in VG d/w (bruising to spine extrems, soiling to front & rear, tanning to spine)

PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1961

KEYWORDS: Kenneth Scott Latourette religion theology history Christianity church Americas Pacific Asia Africa

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