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$16.50
xxelb50500

Harem - The World Behind the Veil


CROUTIER, ALEV LYTLE

ex library hardback super octavo with plastic-wrap (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: Abbeville Press 1989

KEYWORDS: specials harems culture sex sexuality history women

$19.50
xxelb50501

Scaes & Weights - A Historial Outline


KISCH, BRUNO

ex library hardback super octavo with plastic-wrap (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: Yale University Press 1965

KEYWORDS: specials history bruno kisch weights measures scales science medicine systems

$22.50
xxelb57504

A Handbook of Roman Art - A Survey of the Visual Arts of the Roman World


HENIG, MARTIN (ed.)

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Phaidon 1983

KEYWORDS: specials rome roman art martin henig history

$9.00
xxelb57511

Tour to Hell - Convict Australia's Great Escape Myths


LEVELL, DAVID

ex library, 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: UQP 2008

KEYWORDS: specials australia david levell history

$24.50
xxelc57522

Horsedrawn Vehicles of New Zealand


HAWKE, VERA & SCOTT, AMY

ex library rectangle hardback with plastic-wrap (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 Dunmore Press 1980

KEYWORDS: specials horses vehicles history travel transport new zealand vera hawke amy scott

$22.50
xxelc57524

Return to Midway


BALLARD, ROBERT D. & ARCHBOLD, RICK

hardback quarto (VG+) with 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: Hodder Madison Press 1999

KEYWORDS: specials war ships shipwrecks history robert ballard rick archbold navy pacific battles sea

$35.00
xxelc57526

Settler and Migrant Peoples of New Zealand


N/A

softcover 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: Bateman 2006

KEYWORDS: specials settlers migration new zealand history

$16.50
xxelc57537

They Marched Into Sunlight - War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967


MARANISS, DAVID

first edition ex library hardback octavo with plastic-wrapped 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: Simon & Schuster 2003

KEYWORDS: specials vietnam history battle war america usa david maraniss

$17.50
xxelc57538

Greece & Rome Studies - Virgil


MCAUSLAN, IAN & WALCOT, PETER (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: Oxford University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: specials greek roman literature history virgil ian mcauslan peter walcot

$150.00
2g26/7

The Opouriao-Taneatua Settlement of 1896


HEATH, ALISON B.

Quarto, illus white light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front cover, i + 239pp, illus, VG (spine tape missing leaving glue residue stains to cover edges, foxing to covers, eps & page edges)

PUBLISHER: Whakatane & District Historical Society 1989

KEYWORDS: Alison B Heath New Zealand Whakatane Opouriao Taneatua history dairy agriculture cattle government farming Bay of Plenty settlement land

$50.00
2g26/11

The Boy's Own Annual Volume XLVII 1924-1925


POCKLINGTON, GEOFFREY R. (Ed)

Quarto, illus brown cloth boards, illus eps, frontispiece fold-out of British Empire arms & badges, 788pp, illus, VG- (gutters cracked & loose at front & rear but still attached, rubbing & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, tanning, creasing to last page)

PUBLISHER: Boy's Own Paper Office 1925

KEYWORDS: Boy's own annual children's literature adventure stories history sport hobbies crafts

$24.50
2g26/24

The Catacombs: Pictures from the Life of Early Christianity


HEIDENREICH, ALFRED (Ed)

Imperial octavo, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt motif to front board, frontispiece, 48pp + 68 plates, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to fep, v slight foxing to eps) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing to front upper edge, 2cm closed tear to spine/upper front fold, bruising & rubbing to spine extrems & rear_)

PUBLISHER: Christian Community Press 1962

KEYWORDS: Alfred Heidenreich history Christianity Rome catacombs religion theology Roman Empire art paintings symbols sculptures sarcophagi

$20.00
2g26/34

Diary for 1940


GORMACK, R. S.

Limited to 225 copies, duodecimo, oatmeal cloth boards with black lettering in white label to front board, 58pp, fine, in d/w, fine

PUBLISHER: Nag's Head Press 1986

KEYWORDS: RS Gormack New Zealand diary memoir Canterbury University history 1940

$70.00
2g26/37

Letters from London at Coronation Time: June-August 1953


BATEMAN, HELEN

Inscribed & signed by author and Printer/publisher, limited to 150 copies, octavo, blue cloth boards with blue lettering in white label to front board, 80pp, fine, in d/w, fine

PUBLISHER: Nag's Head Press 1987

KEYWORDS: Helen Bateman London Coronation letters journals history Bob Gormack

$27.50
2g27/2

Warriors of Rome: An Illustrated Military History of the Roman Legions


SIMKINS, MICHAEL & FIELD, JAMES (Illus)

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 160pp, illus, VG (slight rubbing to cover edges, v slight soiling to some pages)

PUBLISHER: Blandford / Cassell 1989

KEYWORDS: Michael Simkins James Field Rome Roman legions military history army soldiers weaponry armour fighting methods

$24.50
2g27/10

Etruscan Italy


SPIVEY, NIGEL & STODDARD, SIMON & ASHLEY, STEVEN (

Signed & dated by one author, imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, 168pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (slight tanning to upper edges)

PUBLISHER: BT Batsford 1990

KEYWORDS: Nigel Spivey Simon Stoddart Steven Ashley Etruscans Italy Rome archaeology history 1200-400BC classical anthropology

$24.50
2g27/13

Vergil's Italy


MCKAY, ALEXANDER G.

First edition, super octavo, grey/green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 356pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to spine, some pencil annotation) in d/w, VG (browning, bruising to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Adams & Dart 1971

KEYWORDS: First edition Alexander G McKay history Vergil poetry literature literary criticism

$34.50
2g27/27

The Great Centuries of Painting: Roman Painting


MAIURI, AMEDEO

Quarto, green cloth boards with red lettering to spine & front board, illus title page & verso, 155pp, illus with 84 tipped-in colour plates, VG+ (bookseller's presentation label to fep, owner's name, address & date in ink to fep, v light foxing) in d/w, VG- (internal tape repair to upper spine & to lower front edge, 4cm untidy tear to spine/front edge, bruising & rubbing to spine extrems, 2cm closed tear to upper front edge, 2cm & 3cm closed tears to upper & lower rear edges respectively, bruising to corners, soiling)

PUBLISHER: Skira 1953

KEYWORDS: Amedeo Maiuri Roman painting art Rome Pompeii Herculaneum Stabiae Paestum Cumae Ruvo ancient murals art history

$24.50
2g27/32

A Dictionary of Mottoes


PINE, L. G.

Super octavo, maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 303pp, VG+ (sellotape residue stains to boards, foxing) in d/w, VG+ (sellotape staining)

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1983

KEYWORDS: LG Pine dictionary reference mottoes Latin Greek heraldry words phrases history ancestry

$27.50
2g25/31

Eva Braun: Ein Ungewohnliches Frauenschicksal in Geschichtlich Bewegter Zeit


FRANK, JOHANNES

TEXT IN GERMAN, imperial octavo, royal blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 324pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name & date in ink to fep, some underlining in ink) in d/w, fine

PUBLISHER: KW Schutz 1988

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN en deutsch Johannes Frank Eva Braun biography history

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