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The Emigrant's Friend, or Authentic Guide to South Australia


Including Sydney, Port Philip or Australia Felix; Western Australia or Swan River Colony; New South Wales, Van Dieman's Land, & New Zealand

n/a

Duodecimo light card stapled wrapper (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: Reader's Digest facsimile reprint 1974

KEYWORDS: specials New Zealand Australia immigration emigration guide history colonies

$9.50
xxfba75970

The Companion Guide To Rome


MASSON, GEORGINA

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: Fontana 1974

KEYWORDS: specials Georgina Masson travel Rome Italy history guide

$9.50
xxfba75973

Voltaire In Love


MITFORD, NANCY

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 1960

KEYWORDS: specials Nancy Mitford Voltaire biography history

$10.00
xxfba75991

Victorian Olympus


GAUNT, WILLIAM

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: Cardinal 1975

KEYWORDS: specials William Gaunt art history elgin marbles parthenon

$60.00
1d31/1

Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days


DOENITZ, ADMIRAL & STEVENS, R. H. (Trans)

First edition, black boards with silver lettering to spine, ix + 500pp, VG (tape residue to fep, date in ink to fep, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light bruising to spine extrems & corners, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1959

KEYWORDS: first edition Admiral Doenitz autobiography memoirs Nazi Germany naval history

$125.00
1d30/44

Clifford of the Cabal: A Life of Thomas, First Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England (1630-1673)


HARTMANN, CYRIL HUGHES

First edition, inscribed & signed by current Cliffords, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xix + 350pp, illus, VG- (some fading & spotting to boards, v light bruising to spine extrems, small ding to front board upper corner, moderate foxing & tanning) in d/w, VG (moderate browning to spine, some creasing to spine extrems, small tatty tear to upper spine extrem, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1937

KEYWORDS: first edition Thomas Lord Clifford of Chudleigh biography history Cyril Hughes Hartmann

$15.00
xxfbb76028

Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 1 1788-1850 A-H


PIKE, DOUGLAS (Ed)

This volume only, imperial 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: Melbourne University Press 1966

KEYWORDS: specials Douglas Pike Australian history genealogy biography social science reference

$15.00
xxfbb76029

Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 2 1788-1850 I-Z


PIKE, DOUGLAS (Ed)

This volume only, imperial 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: Melbourne University Press 1967

KEYWORDS: specials Douglas Pike Australian history genealogy biography social science reference

$30.00
xxfbb76039

Inside the Olympics: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Politics, the Scandals, and the Glory of the Games


POUND, RICHARD W.

Signed, first edition, super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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: John Wiley & Sons 2004

KEYWORDS: first edition signed specials Richard W Pound Olympic Games Olympics sport history

$19.50
xxfbb76046

An Account of the The Settlements of the New Zealand Colony


From Personal Observations during a Residence There

PETRE, HENRY WILLIAM

Ex library, 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: Capper Press Reprint 1971 (of Smith, Elder & Co 1842)

KEYWORDS: specials Hon Henry William Petre New Zealand history

$27.50
xxfbb76052

'Blest Madman' Fitzgerald of Canterbury


BOHAN, EDMUND

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: Canterbury University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: specials Edmund Bohan James Edward Fitzgerald New Zealand biography Fanny Erskine Draper Canterbury history

$40.00
xxfbc76084

Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists, Volumes One and Two


DORSON, RICHARD M. (Ed)

Two-volume set, 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: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1968

KEYWORDS: specials Richard M Dorson British folklore history myths legends

$10.00
xxfbc76092

Redlands: The Story of An Australian Shire


TOWNSEND, DEREK

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: Derek Townsend 1986

KEYWORDS: specials Derek Townsend Australia Queensland history

$25.00
xxfbc76106

Whose High Country? A History of the South Island High Country of New Zealand


MCINTYRE, ROBERTA

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: Penguin 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Roberta McIntyre New Zealand South Island high country history

$16.00
xxfbc76107

Shackleton's Whisky: A Spirit of Discovery - Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic Expedition, and the rare malt whisky he left behind


PEAT, NEVILLE

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: Longacre 2012

KEYWORDS: specials Neville Peat Ernest Shackleton antarctic expedition history biography

$25.00
xxfbc76125

Lost Cowboys from Patagonia to the Alamo


WANGFORD, HANK

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 usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Hank Wangford cowboys gauchos llaneros vaqueros myth folklore history USA North South Central America

$45.00
1d31/14

The Desert Railway: The New Zealand Railway Group in North Africa and the Middle East during the Second World War


JUDD, BRENDON

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: Penguin 2004

KEYWORDS: Brendon Judd World War Two WW2 history New Zealand railwaymen shunters engine drivers firemen engineers Western Desert North Arica

$245.00
1d31/20

The First Five Books of the Roman History


LIVIUS, TITUS & BELLENDEN, JOHN (Trans)

First edition, pages unopened (uncut), small quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to maroon leather spine & gilt rule to meeting of cloth & leather, viii + 480pp, VG (front board/hinge sloppy, heavy chaffing, fraying & bruising to spine & spine sides & extrems, portions of loss to spine extrems, fading to boards, some dampstaining to upper edges of first 50 pages, some light foxing to eps)

PUBLISHER: W & C Tait 1822

KEYWORDS: first edition Titus Livius John Bellenden ancient Rome Roman history

$85.00
1d31/21

Glasgow and its Clubs; or Glimpses of the Condition Manners, Characters, & Oddities of the City during the Past & Present Century


STRANG, JOHN

Original binding, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind stamped decorative rule to boards, printed eps, viii + 599pp + 8pp adverts, VG (heavy rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, some browning to boards, esp spine, 2cm tear to cloth at lower corner of front pastedown, front & rear gutter paper cracked, spine hinges sloppy, owner's name & address label to half-title page, some tanning)

PUBLISHER: Richard Griffin & Co 1856

KEYWORDS: John Strang Scotland Glasgow social history clubs

$22.50
xxfbd76164

Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments


WIEDER, JOACHIM & VON EINSIEDEL, HEINRICH GRAF & B

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 usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Arms & Armour Press 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Joachim Wieder Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel Second World War Two WW2 Russia Stalingrad military history siege

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