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$25.00
2e13a/43

The Wreck of the Osprey


The Raupo Series of School Readers

REED, A. W.

Small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 24pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to covers)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)

KEYWORDS: AW Reed New Zealand children's school readers history shipwreck Osprey

$35.00
2e13a/45

Deeds of Daring in New Zealand


The Raupo Series of School Readers

LOCKERBIE, LESLIE

Small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 19pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to covers)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)

KEYWORDS: Leslie Lockerbie New Zealand children's school readers history adventure Huria Matenga Rawiri Korako Te Puoho

$25.00
2e13a/46

The Games of Ao-Tea-Roa


The Raupo Series of School Readers

LOCKERBIE, LESLIE

Small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 27pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to covers)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)

KEYWORDS: Leslie Lockerbie New Zealand children's school readers history Maori games dances haka ti rakau poi potaka pirori ruru reti tutukai wi mutorere niti

$44.50
2e13a/47

Otakou: Early Days in and about Otago Harbour


The Raupo Series of School Readers

CHAPMAN-COHEN, HANNAH M.

Small octavo, patterned green & red light card stapled wrappers, 24pp, illus, VG (light fading to spine and edges of covers, light central vertical crease to whole booklet)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed (nd but c1935)

KEYWORDS: Hannah Chapman-Cohen New Zealand children's school readers history Otago harbour Otakou traders whalers Captain Cook Dumont D'Urville

$15.00
xxetc60907

Escape From Germany: The Greatest POW Break-Out of the First World War


HANSON, NEIL

Super octavo 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Doubleday / Transworld 2011

KEYWORDS: specials Neil Hanson history World War One WWI First World War Germany POW escape

$20.00
xxetc60917

Merchant Fleets in Profile 4


With drawings to 1:1800 scale

HAWS, DUNCAN

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Patrick, Stephens, Cambridge 1980

KEYWORDS: specials Duncan Haws merchant navy fleet Hamburg Adler Carr Lines history routes livery

$14.00
xxetc60943

Victorian People: Some Reassessments of People, Institutions, Ideas and Events 1851-1867


BRIGGS, ASA

Ex library, first edition, 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Odhams Press Ltd 1954

KEYWORDS: Asa Briggs specials first edition ex library history Victorians Crystal Palace Crimean Trollope Bagehot Public Schools Trade Unions John Bright Robert Lowe Benjamin Disraeli John Roebuck

$16.50
xxetd60962

Butterfly Farmer


NEWMAN, L. HUGH

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: The Country Book Club 1954

KEYWORDS: specials L Hugh Newman butterflies natural history biology insects entomology

$14.00
xxetd60975

Letters of Herbert Cardinal Vaughan to Lady Herbert of Lea: 1867 to 1903


LESLIE, SHANE (ed.)

hardcover octavo ex library (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: Burns Oates 1942

KEYWORDS: specials ex library Shane Leslie Cardinal Vaughan Lady Herbert letters history

$9.50
xxete61051

The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


JAFFE, HANS

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: Thames and Hudson 1969

KEYWORDS: specials Hans Jaffe art painting history modernism

$65.00
2e17a/2

Rangiora High School 1884-1984: A Centennial History


GUNBY, DAVID

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 274pp, illius, VG+ (slight bruising to lower fore-edges)

PUBLISHER: Rangiora High School Centennial Committee 1984

KEYWORDS: David Gunby New Zealand Rangiora High School centennial history education school

$20.00
2e17a/4

Birds of Tutira


GUTHRIE-SMITH, HERBERT & MOORE, JOHN L (Illus)

First edition thus, imperial octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering to white spine, illus prelims, 75pp, illus with John L Moore's woodcuts, VG+

PUBLISHER: Cape Catley Ltd 1990

KEYWORDS: first edition thus Herbert Guthrie-Smith John L Moore New Zealand natural history birds woodcuts art

$245.00
2e17a/6

Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries


Volum XVII Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies

SCHILLING, HEINZ

Scarce, super octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, viii + 167pp, VG+ (moderate ding to front board lower corner, otherwise condition would be fine) in VG+ d/w (slight bruising to edges, light rubbing to rear flap fold)

PUBLISHER: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers 1991

KEYWORDS: Heinz Schilling Germany Netherlands calvanism church history Emden Groningen

$25.00
xxete61055

The European Reformations Sourcebook


LINDBERG, CARTER (ed)

super octavo 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishing 2002

KEYWORDS: specials carter lindberg european reformations textbook history mediaeval sixteenth century religion politics

$32.50
xxataa61073

Blitzkrieg: The Unpublished Photographs 1939-1942


BAXTER, IAN

hardcover quarto (fine) in d/w (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Brassey's 2002

KEYWORDS: specials Ian Baxter military photography pictorial history blitzkrieg world war II germany

$38.50
xxataa61074

Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia


WHITLEY, M. J.

hardcover imperial square (fine) in d/w (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Brockhampton Press 1999

KEYWORDS: specials M J Whitley naval history ships cruisers boats maritime world war II illustrated military

$30.00
xxataa61076

Southernmost Seminary: The Story of Holy Cross College, Mosgiel (1900-97)


NORRIS, PETER JOSEPH

hardcover quarto (fine) in d/w (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Holy Cross Seminary 1999

KEYWORDS: specials Joseph Peter Norris new zealand otago mosgiel church history holy cross college

$40.00
xxataa61077

A Living Tradition: A Centennial History of Knox College, Dunedin 1909-2009


CLARKE, ALISON

softcover quarto (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Knox College 2009

KEYWORDS: specials Alison Clarke new zealand dunedin history otago university hall of residence knox college

$18.50
xxataa61078

Hearts of Gold


SALMOND, J. D.

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: Otago Daily Times 1962

KEYWORDS: specials J D Salmond new zealand otago queenstown history gold rush gold digging mining illustrated

$22.50
xxataa61085

The Advance Guard: Series One ( 1 )


GRIFFITHS, G. J.

THIS VOL ONLY, hardcover octavo (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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times 1973

KEYWORDS: specials G J Friffiths new zealand otago history early settlers

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