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$25.00
xxsel93054

Building the Main Trunk: How they Built the Railway that Links Auckland & Wellington


WOODS, GEORGE (Drawing)

Octavo Oblong Stapled Wrapping (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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Price, Milburn and Company Ltd 1960

KEYWORDS: Specials New Zealand History Trains Locomotives Railways Photography Wellington Auckland

$14.00
xxsel93058

A Century of Railways at Auckland: 1873 - 1973


MCGAVIN, T. A.

Octavo stapled wrappers (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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: The New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc 1974

KEYWORDS: Specials New Zealand Trains Locomotives Railways TA McGavin transport history

$15.00
xxsel93060

Whale of a shark


CROPP, BEN

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Rigby Ltd 1969

KEYWORDS: Ben Cropp specials natural history Austalia whale sharks marine biology

$30.00
xxsel93064

Curassows and Related Birds


AMADON, DEAN & DELACOUR, JEAN

Quarto 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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: The American Museum of Natural History 1973

KEYWORDS: Specials Onithology Dean Amadon Jean Delacour Birds Biology american natural history

$15.00
xxsel93066

Mollusca of the Southern Islands of New Zealand


POWELL, A. W. B.

Piece cut from plate 3 and page 89, octavo Softcover (G+); 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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research

KEYWORDS: specials New Zealand A W B Powell Mollusca Southern Islands Shells Natural History Conchology Gastropods molluscs malacology

$28.50
xxsel93071

The Soundless Sahara


BODLY, R.V.C.

First Edition 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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale Ltd 1968

KEYWORDS: specials first edition R V C Bodly Ronald Bodley Autobiography History First Edition

$14.00
xxsel93080

Slumbering Giants: The Volcanoes and Thermal Regions of the Central North Island


COX, GEOFFREY J.

Imperial Octavo Stapled Wrappers (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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: William Collins Ltd 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Geoffrey J Cox New Zealand Volcanoes North Island Thermal Regions History geology geography

$20.00
xxsem93104

Pictures of Southern New Zealand


COLLINS, ROGER

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: John McIndoe 1979

KEYWORDS: Specials New Zealand History Pictures Art Drawings Paintings

$75.00
2s3/15

Men of The Battle of Britain: A Biographical Directory of the Few


WYNN, KENNETH G.

Folio, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, x + 606pp, illus, VG+ (front & rear hinges reinforced with archival tape) in d/w, VG+ (creasing to rear, 2cm closed tear repaired with archival tape to upper rear edge, light creasing to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: Frontline Books 2015 (Revised & updated edition)

KEYWORDS: Kenneth G Wynn World War Two Battle of Britain military aviation history biography reference pilots aviators air crew airmen

$55.00
2s3/22

Golden Bay: One Hundred Years of Local Government


NEWPORT, J. N. W.

Octavo, green heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 256pp, illus, VG (v slight tanning to page edges, v light creasing to board edges)

PUBLISHER: Golden Bay County Council 1975

KEYWORDS: JNW Newport New Zealand Golden Bay local history government

$40.00
2s3/27

A Healthy Country: Essays on the Social History of Medicine in New Zealand


BRYDER, LINDA (Ed)

Octavo, light card covers, ii + 252pp, VG- (v. slight soiling to covers, owner's name in ink to fep, light tanning to page edges, sl foxing)

PUBLISHER: Bridget William Books 1991

KEYWORDS: Linda Bryder New Zealand medicine medical history essays

$75.00
2s3/40

Square Rigged Sailing Ships Visiting Nelson 1841 to 1914


RAGGETT, P. D.

Signed by author, large quarto, illus green covers with yellow & white lettering to spine & front cover, illus title page, 238pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to covers, reading crease to front cover, v slight soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: PD Raggett 2004 (Revised & Enlarged)

KEYWORDS: PD Raggett New Zealand Nelson square rigger sailing ship maritime nautical history merchant vessels boats barques

$22.50
xxsem93124

Wellington City Transport: Buses through the Years


n/a

Quarto light card staped wrappers (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: Welington City Council Transport 1987

KEYWORDS: specials New Zealand Wellington, public transport history buses

$34.50
xxsem93127

Guillaume Apollinaire and the Cubist Life


MACKWORTH, CECILY

First edition, 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: John Murray 1961

KEYWORDS: first edition specials Cecily Mackworth Guillaume Apollinaire biography art cubism impressionism surrealism art history

$29.50
xxsen93152

Madame Tallien: Notre Dame de Thermidor from the Last Days of the French Revolution until her Death in 1835


GASTINE, L. & MAY, J. LEWIS (Trans)

Ex library, 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: John Lane 1913

KEYWORDS: L Gastine Madame Tallien biography French revolution history Robespierre specials

$16.50
xxsen93163

The Rising Tide of Colour: Against White World-Supremacy


STODDARD, LOTHROP

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: Historical Review Press 1981

KEYWORDS: specials Lothrop Stoddard politics racism racial discrimination white supremacy history

$13.50
xxsen93165

Where the Prize is Highest: The Stories of the New Zealanders who won the Victoria Cross


BRYANT, G.

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: Collins 1972

KEYWORDS: specias G Bryant New Zealanders soldiers military history Victoria Cross biography

$20.00
xxsen93188

Ireland and the Making of Britain (with map of Medieval Ireland and Britain)


FITZPATRICK, BENEDICT

Folding map is present, first edition, small quarto 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: Funk & Wagnalls Co 1922

KEYWORDS: specials Benedict Fitzpatrick Britain British Ireland Irish history

$19.50
xxsen93192

Early Victorian New Zealand: A Study of Racial Tension and Social Attitudes 1839-1852


MILLER, JOHN

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: Oxford University Press 1958

KEYWORDS: specials John Miller New Zealand history

$22.50
xxseo93216

The Abbey & Bishopric of Ely: The Social History of an Ecclesiastical Estate from the Tenth Century to the Eary Fourteenth Century


MILLER, EDWARD

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: Cambridge University Press 1969

KEYWORDS: specials Edward Miller Ely abbey bishopric religion religious history

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