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$25.00
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Remote the Land's Heart: Wildlife and Landscape in Southern New Zealand


GASKIN, CHRIS

Quarto 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: John McIndoe

KEYWORDS: specials Chris Gaskin New Zealand South Island wildlife landscape natural history

$9.00
xxkya74372

Frontispiece - A Childhood Portrait


SPRING, MARION HOWARD

hardcover octavo w 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: Collins 1969

KEYWORDS: specials marion howard spring biography memoir history

$8.50
xxkyd74460

Bravo Two Zero


MCNAB, ANDY

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 1994

KEYWORDS: specials Andy McNab SAS military history autobiography memoir

$25.00
xxkyc74413

Britain Then & Now


The Francis Frith Collection

ZIEGLER, PHILIP

Quarto 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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999

KEYWORDS: specials Philip Ziegler Francis Frith Collection Britain British history

$19.50
xxkyc74419

The Top of the Hill: A Short History of Mornington and its Buildings


HARGREAVES, RAY

Super octavo, stapled light card covers (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: Otago Regional Committee1983

KEYWORDS: specials Ray Hargreaves New Zealand Otago Dunedin Mornington history architecture

$19.50
1d26/37

In Darkest Africa


or The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria

STANLEY, HENRY M.

Lacks 2x maps: next to frontis and op. p309, red buckram boards with black & gilt lettering & black & gilt illustration to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xii + 635pp, illus + folding map, VG- (slight bubbling to front board, some fading & browning to spine, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, some staining to boards, owner's name & address in ink to prelim, light tanning to page edges, some creasing and 6cm closed tear to folding map, slight foxing)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston et al 1890

KEYWORDS: Henry M Stanley Africa travel history

$18.50
xxaro74567

Kanake: The Melanesian Way


TJIBAOU, J. M.

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: les editions du pacifique 1978

KEYWORDS: specials J M Tjibaou anthropology melanese south pacific culture illustrated pictorial history

$9.50
xxdeg74578

The Tudor Parliaments: Crown, Lords and Commons, 1485 - 1603


GRAVES, MICHAEL A. 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Longman 1985

KEYWORDS: specials Michael A R Graves tudor history politics parliament britain

$13.50
xxkyf74534

Enlightened Despotism


GAGLIARDO, JOHN G.

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1968

KEYWORDS: specials John G Gagliardo enlightened despotism Euroope European history

$22.50
xxkyf74537

Kinds of Peace: Maori People After the Wars, 1870 - 85


SINCLAIR, KEITH

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1991

KEYWORDS: specials Keith Sinclair New Zealand Maori wars history

$22.50
xxkyf74545

Born to Lead?: Portraits of New Zealand Commanders


HARPER, GLYN & HAYWARD, JOEL (Eds)

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Exisle Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: specials Glyn Harper Joel Hayward New Zealand Commanders biography biographies military history

$8.50
xxkyf74548

The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas


HEYERDAHL, THOR

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1975

KEYWORDS: specials Thor Heyerdahl Kon-Tiki expedition travel exploration nautical history

$15.00
xxkyf74552

Seventy Thousand to One


REYNOLDS, QUENTIN

First Australian edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (good+); 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: Cassell & Co. 1947

KEYWORDS: specials Quentin Reynolds Gordon Manuel biography first edittion memoir miilitary history

$33.50
xxkyf74558

Horsedrawn Vehicles of New Zealand


HAWKE, VERA & SCOTT, AMY

Oblong 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press 1980

KEYWORDS: specials Vera Hawke Amy Scott New Zealand horse drawn transport vehicles history

$40.00
1d26/45

New Zealand 1826 - 1827: An English Translation of the Voyage de l'Astrolabe in New Zealand Waters


With an Introductory Essay by Olive Wright. Foreword by His Excellency M. Emmanuel Lancial Minister of France to New Zealand

D'URVILLE, DUMONT & WRIGHT, OLIVE (Trans/Intro)

Imperial octavo, cream light card covers, frontispiece, xi + 251pp, illus, VG (v slight foxing and soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (slight bruising with small tears to edges, light foxing and soiling)

PUBLISHER: Olive Wright 1950 (?)

KEYWORDS: Dumont D'urville Olive Wright New Zealand French biography exploration memoirs history

$14.00
xxkul74641

Versailles and Trianon


Guide to the Museum and National Domain of Versailles and Trianon

LEMOINE, PIERRE

Octavo softcover (nr fine) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but secondhand; Frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down

PUBLISHER: Reunion des Musees Nationaux 2002

KEYWORDS: specials pierre lemoine guide france versailles trianon museum history art

$8.50
xxkul74644

Three Restoration Comedies


SALGADO, GAMINI

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 secondhand; Frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1976

KEYWORDS: specials gamini galgado theatre history plays performing arts drama

$24.50
xxkyg74661

Gallipoli


CARLYON, LES

Super octavo hardcover (nr 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 secondhand; Frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 2001

KEYWORDS: specials les carlyon gallipolo war history

$40.00
1d27/11

A History of the Fish Hook


And the Story of Mustad the Hook Maker

HURUM, HANS JORGEN

Super octavo, brown speckled heavy card boards with silver lettering to spine and silver fish hook motif to front board, 148pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name written in ink to fep, v slight tanning to page edges), in d/w, VG (some tanning to spine and front & back covers, v slight tanning to inside)

PUBLISHER: Adams & Charles Black 1977

KEYWORDS: hans jorgen hurum fishing fish hook maker anglers history sport

$72.50
1d27/13

The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History


MCGIBBON, IAN (ed)

Imperial octavo, black card boards with silver lettering to spine, xxvi+653pp, illus, VG+), in d/w, VG+ (slight soiling, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: ian mcgibbon new zealand military history oxford war

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