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The Last Emperor


BEHR, 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: Futura 1987

KEYWORDS: china history biography Pu Yi

$12.50
xxsgx97809

The Welsh TerrierL Leads the Way


MCLENNAN, BARDI

Ex Library, 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Doral Publishing 1998

KEYWORDS: natural history welsh terrier

$12.00
xxsgx97816

A-Z of Plant Names:


COOMBES, ALLEN J.

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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Chancellor Press 1994

KEYWORDS: natural history plants botany

$17.50
xxsgx97822

Citizen Armies


HASWELL, JOCK

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: Peter Davies 1973

KEYWORDS: history war

$40.00
2s16/48

The Violin


WECHSBERG, JOSEPH

Super octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, vi + 314pp, illus, VG (some fading to boards, owner's name in ink to fep, bookseller's label & number in ink to front pastedown, light tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate tanning, some creasing & closed tears to spine head

PUBLISHER: Calder & Boyars1973

KEYWORDS: music musical instrument history violins violin

$375.00
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Our Iron-Clad Ships; Their Qualities, Performances, and Cost, with Chapters on Turret Ships, Iron-Clad Rams etc


REED, E. J.

First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, folding frontispiece, xxxii + 332pp, illus, VG- (moderate brusing & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, some staining & fading to spine & boards, some browning to page edges, occasional light foxing)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1869

KEYWORDS: iron-clad ships iron-clads shipping warships naval nautical history marine engineering

$125.00
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Domestic Medicine, or A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines; with Observations concerning Sea-bathing, and on the Use of The Mineral Waters


BUCHAN, WILLIAM

Octavo, full polished leather binding with gilt lettering in black panel to spine, xl + 798pp + 1pp book ads, VG- (some damage to spine sides & extrems, front hinge cracked, some staining & wear to boards & spine, front hinge cracking, soiling to eps, heavy browning & foxing to page edges, lighter foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: T Cadell & W Davies, J Johnson et al 1807

KEYWORDS: history of medicine disease treatment health cures illness

$90.00
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The Summer Ships being an account of the first six ships sent out from England by the Canterbury Association in 1850-1851


AMODEO, COLIN

Large quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, red lettering to spine & front cover, printed eps, frontispiece, 358pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 2001

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury pioneers ships

$120.00
2s17/22

Isolated Lines: A History of the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board and Eastland Energy Ltd


GUNDRY, SHERIDAN

Large quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, x + 326pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (fading to spine, light rubbing, moderate creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Eastland Energy 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Poverty Bay Eastland energy electricity power generation industry history

$45.00
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The Holy Barbarians


LIPTON, LAWRENCE

First UK edition, super octavo, red boards with brown lettering to spine, 318pp, illus, VG- (some light staining to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy browning to eps, owner's name in ink to fep, some foxing)

PUBLISHER: WH Allen 1960

KEYWORDS: beat generation music history

$42.50
ak3/12/1851

Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies, New Zealand and the United States


FISCHER, DAVID HACKETT

Imperial octavo, blue heavy card boards with silver lettering to black spine, xxv + 629pp, illus, VG+, in d/w, VG+

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2012

KEYWORDS: New Zealand United States USA history politics justice

$225.00
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With the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine, being the Official History of the New Zealand Machine Corps


LUXFORD, MAJOR J. H.

Octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 255pp, illus + folding maps, VG- (moderate staining & soiling to boards, browning to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, some sporadic foxing)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltdf 1923

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history World War One WW1 Palestine France Machine Gun Corps

$90.00
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With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force 1896


ALDRESON, E. A. H.

Original binding, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 308pp, illus + folding maps, VG- (light browning to spine, light staining to boards, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems, heavy browning to page edges and eps, sporadic light foxing, creasing to some folding maps)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1989

KEYWORDS: South Africa military history Mounted Infantry Mashonaland Field Force

$50.00
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The Official Story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Volume 1: Canada in Flanders


AITKEN, SIR MAX

This volume only, octavo, red cloth boards with blind lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, xx + 243pp + 2pp appendix + 4pp press opinions, VG- (browning to spine, some fading & staining to boards, light tanning to page edges, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, owner's name in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1916 (12th edition)

KEYWORDS: Canada Canadian expeditionary force military history World War One WW1

$165.00
1w39/8

General History of the Science and Practice of Music (A New Edition with the Author's Posthumous Notes)


HAWKINS, SIR JOHN

Three-volume set, original binding, small quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards & spine, xxxvi + 963pp + 16pp index & appendix (vols 1 & 2), frontispiece with tissueguard + 59 full-page plates with tissueguards (vol.3), VG- for vols 1&2 (heavy scuffing with some loss of surface to boards & spines, some staining to boards, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, moderate browning & foxing to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, lighter sporadic foxing elsewhere), Vol. 3 poor (condition as per other volumes plus completely disbound but all plates present, 8cm tear to spine)

PUBLISHER: Novello, Ewer & Co 1875

KEYWORDS: history science music theory

$47.50
1w39/10

Mountaineering from the Milford Road: An Illustrated History of the First Mountaineering in the Milford Region 1895 to 1970


HALL-JONES, GERARD

Signed by author, super octavo, illus heavy card boards with blue lettering to white spine, illus eps, frontispiece map, 119pp, illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Gerard Hall-Jones 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand mountain climbing mountaineering Milford history

$145.00
1w39/14

The History of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919


FERGUSON, CAPT. DAVID

Super octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, blue & red rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, vii + 364pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1921

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history First World War One WW1 Canterbury Regiment

$60.00
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The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine


POWLES, C. GUY

Lacks map at rear, octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xv + 284pp, illus, folding maps, VG- (lacks map at rear, light bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning to eps, slight soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited 1922

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Sinai Palestine first world war one ww1 wwI military history

$70.00
1w39/23

Singapore through 19th Century Prints & Portraits


SUEN, WONG HONG & WATERSON, ROXANA

Dated signed & inscribed to John Hall-Jones from the author, thanking him for assistance in the publication, together with loosely enclosed christmas card signed dated & inscribed by author to John Hall-Jones, and copy of a letter from Hall-Jones to author and holograph notes on the book by Hall-Jones, oblong quarto, green cloth boards with white lettering to spine & front board, pale greeen eps, 176pp, illus, nr fine in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Editions Didier Millet / National Museum of Singapore 2010

KEYWORDS: Singapore art prints portraits paintings history signed

$175.00
1w39/25

Pioneers of Canterbury: Deans Letters 1840-1854


DEANS, JOHN & ACLAND, MAJOR L. G. D. (Foreword) et al

Copy of author F. G. Hall-Jones, octavo, cream cloth boards with brown lettering to spine, blind lettering & rule to front board, frontispiece, 312pp, illus, VG (light tanning to spine, newspaper clipping of review written by FG Hall-Jones pasted to rear ep verso, pencil annotations by Hall-Jones to rear ep,light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate tanning, light rubbing & soiling, moderate creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed (nd, 1938?)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Canterbury pioneers Deans family biography letters correspondence memoirs history

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