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Recent Brachiopods from New Zealand: Collected Offprints of a Suite of Eleven Papers Published in New Zealand Journal of Zoology Vol. 8 (1981) No. 2
Imperial octavo, green light card covers, printed eps, 115pp (numbered 133-248), illus, VG- (moderate soiling to covers, light crease to rear cover, owner's name stamp to front cover & f.e.p., light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Science Information Division DSIR 1981
KEYWORDS: Joyce Richardson New Zealand brachiopods marine biology zoology science ecology natural history
An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agricuture and Plants in New Zealand: The Scale-Insects (Coccididae)
Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black rule & motif to front board, patterned eps, 116pp + xxiii plates with descriptions on facing pages, VG- (mottled heavy fading to boards, some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, rubbing with slight loss of surface to board edges. some tanning to eps & page edges, owner's bookplate to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Geo. Didsbury, Government Printer 1887
KEYWORDS: WM Maske New Zealand agriculture scale insects coccididae entomology ecology pests natural history
The CNN Effect in Action : How the News Media Pushed the West Toward War in Kosovo
Octavo, blac cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xxiii + 236pp, VG+ (v slight soiling to boards & page edges) in d/w, VG (light soiling, some creasing to upper edges & rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
KEYWORDS: Babak Bahador Kosovo civil war news media studies cnn effect history
A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda, Based on the Collections in the British Museum (Natural History: Part I, Octopodinae and Part II, The Octopoda
2 volume set, imperial octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, blind rule to boards, xi + 236 + 7 plates (vol I), xi + 359pp + 6 plates (vol II), illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, slight fading to spines, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The British Museum 1929
KEYWORDS: GC Robson cephalopoda octopdinae octopoda octopus marine biology zoology natural history science
Letters from Early New Zealand by Charlotte Godley 1850 - 1853
Octavo, yellow cloth boards with red lettering to spine, forntispiece, xxi + 387pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, owner's name to f.e.p., v light foxing to pages, moderate foxing to plates) in d/w, VG- (creasing to edges, archival tape repairs to chipping around spine, light soiling & tanning)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 1951
KEYWORDS: John R Charlotte Godley New Zealand correspondence letters memoirs social history
Maori Life in Ao-tea
Lacks f.e.p., folding frontis present, super octavo, orange cloth boards with black lettering & decoration to front board & spine, folding frontispiece, xvi + 675pp, illus, VG (light rubbing & soiling to boards, moderate fading & tanning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, lacks f.e.p., some foxing to prelims, light tanning to page edges, soiling to rear eps, creasing to lower terminals)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs (nd)
KEYWORDS: Johannes C Andersen New Zealand Maori culture life anthropology social history
Diatomees des Alpes et du Jura et de la Region Suisse et Francaise des Environs de Geneve and Vegetations Pelagiques et Microscopiques du Lac de Geneve (Au Printemps de 1884)
TEXT IN FRENCH, octavo, quarter- bound patterned red boards with gilt lettering & bands to black leather spine, marbled eps, 146pp + 9 plates + 17pp, illus, VG- (moderate-heavy rubbing to boards & spine, light bruising to board corners, bookseller's sticker to upper front pastedown, rear gutter cracked, gutters towards rear cracked, some foxing to prelims, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: H. Georg / Georges Massonn 1880
KEYWORDS: J Jacques Brun TEXT IN FRENCH diatomees diatoms jura marine biology science pelagiques natural history
Die Osterreichischen Diatomaceen Nebst Anschluss Einiger Neuen Arten Von Andern Lokalitaten und Einer Kritischen Uebersicht der Bisher Bekannten Gallungen und Arten
TEXT IN GERMAN, octavo, half-bound marbled boards with gilt lettering to brown leather spine, blue eps, 158pp + plates at rear, VG (moderate rubbing to boards & spine, light soiling to boards, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: 1862
KEYWORDS: A Grunow TEXT IN GERMAN diatomaceen diatoms marine biology science natural history
Autobiography
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: Penguin 1989
KEYWORDS: specials John Stuart Mill biography autobiography philosophy history poltics economics
The Far Eastern War: States and Societies, 1941-1945
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: Unwin / Counterpoint 1986
KEYWORDS: specials Chistopher Thorne international relation history sociology war
Political Fictions
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: Vintage 2002
KEYWORDS: specials Joan Didon current affairs history politics
John Buchan
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: Oxford University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Janet Adam Smith John Buchan biography politics history
The Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher
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: Fontana 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Robert Blake politics sociology history
Politics is for People
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: Penguin 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Shirley Williams politics political science current events history
Mao Tse-Tung: Political Leaders of the Twentieth Century
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: Pelican 1969
KEYWORDS: specials Stuart Schram Mao Tse-Tung politics history biography
England in the Twentieth Century 1914-63
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 1965
KEYWORDS: specials David Thompson British history England
The Fall of Paris
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: Pan 1968
KEYWORDS: specials Alistair Horne 19th-century France military war Siege history
Stone Implements of the Maori
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: A.R. Sharer Government 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Elsdon Best Maori culture New Zealand history
Botany of the Manawtu District New Zealand
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: E.C. Keating Government 1978
KEYWORDS: specials A.E. Elser botany New Zealand natural history
A Chronological Taxonomy of Conus 1758-1840
Imperial 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: Smithsonian Institution 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Alan J. Kohn taxonomy natural history conus