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$185.00
1c25c/21

A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans under Generals Ross, Pakenham, and Lambert in the Years 1814 and 1815, with some account of the countries visited


ANON (AN OFFICER)

Super octavo, half-bound, mottled heavy card boards with gilt lettering & gilt tooled decorative rule to light brown polished leather spine, 1pp advert + 377pp + errata slip to rear, VG- (5cm damage/loss to lower spine, cracking to spine sides, rubbing damage to board edges & corners, browning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1821

KEYWORDS: military history British Army Washington New Orleans General Ross pakenham Lambert

$100.00
1c25c/30

The Gunners: A History of New Zealand Artillery


HENDERSON, ALAN & GREEN, DAVID & COOKE, PETER

Super octavo, dark brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, black eps, 528pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine (slight fading)

PUBLISHER: Raupo Books / Penguin 2008

KEYWORDS: Alan Henderson David Green Peter Cooke New Zealand army military history artillery units gunners South Africa Korea WW1 WW2 Vietnam peacekeeping

$145.00
1c25c/3

Wanganui, New Zealand: Coronation Souvenir 1911


Pretty, Prosperous, Progressive: Its Intersts and Facilities

n/a

Super octavo, light card covers with gilt lettering to front cover, decorated title page, 144pp, illus, VG- (heavy fading to covers, tape repair to spine, bruising & nicks to cover edges & corners, owner's name in ink to fep, moderate creasing to rear cover, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Wanganui Chronicle Co 1911

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Wanganui coronation souvenir history education shops industry commerce tourism

$120.00
1c25c/4

Early Days in Taranaki


BUTLER, FRED B.

Signed & dated by author, octavo, light card boards with attached paper wrapper, brown lettering to spine & front cover, 127pp, VG- (soiling spots to covers, crease to rear cover upper corner, foxing to edges & prelims

PUBLISHER: Taranaki Herald 1942

KEYWORDS: Fred B Butler New Zealand Fred B Butler Taranaki history signed

$9.50
xxksg65761

The Privileged Nightmare


ROMILLY, GILES & ALEXANDER, MICHAEL

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: Pan Books Ltd 1956

KEYWORDS: specials Giles Romilly Michael Alexander autobiography memoir personal account prisoners of war World War II military history

$22.50
xxksh65821

The Lying Stones of Marrakech


Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

GOULD, STEPHEN JAY

Hardcover imperial octavo (NF) in d/w (NF) ; 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: Jonathan Cape 2000

KEYWORDS: specials Stephen Jay Gould popular science palaeontology archaeology genetics astronomy collected essays natural history

$25.00
xxksh65822

A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to Oxfordshire


Excluding the University and City of Oxford

CORDEAUX, E.H. & MERRY, D.H.

Hardcover imperial 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: Oxford University Press 1955

KEYWORDS: specials E H Cordeaux D H Merry English history Oxfordshire bibliography

$15.00
xxksi65827

Once the Wilderness


DIAMOND, JOHN T.

Softcover imperial 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: The Lodestar Press 1977

KEYWORDS: specials John T Diamond New Zealand pictorial history North Island Auckland suburbs Waitakere Ranges

$25.00
xxksi65835

Race Relations in New Zealand


A Review of the Literature

THOMPSON, RICHARD

Hardcover super 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: National Council of Churches 1963

KEYWORDS: specials Richard Thompson New Zealand history race relations religion Maori Pakeha

$10.00
xxksi65836

The Halfway House to Infidelity


A History of the Melbourne Unitarian Church 1853 - 1973

SCOTT, DOROTHY

Softcover 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: The Unitarian Fellowship of Australia and the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church 1980

KEYWORDS: specials Dorothy Scott religion religious history Unitarian Church Melbourne

$15.00
xxksi65839

The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany


LEWY, GUENTER

Softcover 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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1968

KEYWORDS: specials Guenter Lewy religion religious history religion in war World War II Nazi Germany

$8.50
xxksj65877

One Of Our Submarines


YOUNG, EDWARD

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 1955

KEYWORDS: specials edward young war history navy

$9.00
xxksg65798

The Sinking of the Bismarck


BERTHOLD, WILL

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: Cogi Books 1960

KEYWORDS: specials Will Berthold military history nautical naval warfare World War II Bismarck

$45.00
1c25c/39

HMS Caledonia: The Royal Naval Engineering School: A Short History


HUNTER, K. P. & ROGERS, R. J.

Octavo, purple light card stapled covers with coat of arms to front cover, iii + 120pp, illus, VG (some chaffing to covers, slight soiling to rear cover, v slgiht bruising to lower corners)

PUBLISHER: KP Hunhter & RJ Rogers 1984

KEYWORDS: Lieut KP Hunter RJ Rogers HMS Caledonia Royal Navy 19378-1984 naval maritime history ships

$275.00
1c25c/40

The New Zealander Abroad in England, America, the Highlands of Scotland, in Madeira, Capetown and the Sandwich Islands


Beign Notes of a Six-Month holiday Tour round the World

HUTCHESON, WILLIAM M.

Inscribed & signed by author, original binding, octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & black rule to front board, blind rule to rear board, patterned eps, 302pp, VG- (front gutter internally reinforced with archival tape, light fading to spine, slight bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing to boards, owner's name label to front pastedown, heavy browning to eps, some occasional foxing, one section of pages loosening)

PUBLISHER: James Hamilton 1888

KEYWORDS: William M Hutcheson New Zealand travel history memoir England America Scotland Madeira South Africa

$80.00
1c25c/46

Australian Zoological Handbook: The Fishes of Australia Part 1: The Sharks, Rays, Devil-Fish, and other Primitive Fishes of Australia and New Zealand


WHITLEY, GILBERT PERCY

Super octavo, light green cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, 280pp, illus, VG- (moderate browning to spine, moderate bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, slight soiling spots to boards and to eps, sellotape residue stains to rear pastedown, crease to feps) Body of book in much better condition than boards & eps)

PUBLISHER: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales / Whitcombe & Tombs 1940

KEYWORDS: Gilbert Percy Whitley Australia New Zealand fish sharks stingrays ichthyology zoology natural history marine biology

$12.50
xxcfe65971

The Commonwealth of Thieves


KENEALLY, TOM

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Random House 2006

KEYWORDS: specials Tom Keneally Australian history

$25.00
xxcib65984

The Long White Cloud: Ao Tea Roa


Fourth Revised Edition

REEVES, WILLIAM PEMBER & HARROP, A. J.

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: George Allen and Unwin 1950

KEYWORDS: specials William Pember Reeves A J Harrop Sir James Hight New Zealand History

$10.00
xxksj65890

Truth - A History and a Guide for the Perplexed


FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, FELIPE

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Black Swan 1998

KEYWORDS: specials felipe fernandez-armesto history truth

$12.50
xxksl65928

In the Footsteps of Eve - The Mystery of Human Origins


BERGER, LEE R.

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: National Geographic & Adventure Press 2000

KEYWORDS: specials history archaeology science fossils paleoanthropology anthropology

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