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$50.00
1w39/5

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

$50.00
1w39/6

The Official Story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Volume 2: Canada in Flanders


BEAVERBROOK, LORD

This volume only, octavo, red cloth boards with blind lettering to front board & gilt lettering to spine, xx + 258pp, VG- (browning & fading to spine, some fading & staining to boards, light tanning to page edges, owner's name in pencil to front paste down, heavy browning to eps, rear hinge paper cracked)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1917

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
1w39/18

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

$42.50
1w39/28

Sorrows and Joys of a New Zealand Naturalist


GUTHRIE-SMITH, H.

LACKS D/W, Signed limited numbered first edition, octavo, dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind lettering & rule to front board, patterned eps,252pp, illus, VG (slight rubbing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, v v slight fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1936

KEYWORDS: New Zealand H Guthrie-Smith natural history animals wildlife autobiography memoirs signed

$22.50
xxshc97947

New Zealand and Antarctica: Commission for the Environment


N/A

Imperial 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: P.D. Hasselberg 1983

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Antarctica history travel environment

$24.50
xxshc97956

The First Salute


TUCHMAN, BARBARA

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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1989

KEYWORDS: history american revolution

$35.00
xxshd97959

Slipper Orchids: The Art of Digby Graham


GRAHAM, ROBIN & ROY, RONALD

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: A.H. & A.W. REED Ltd 1983

KEYWORDS: arts painting natural history plants slipper orchids

$15.00
xxshd97962

Language: A Linguistic Introduction to History


VENDRYES, J.

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd 1931

KEYWORDS: Languages linguistics history

$30.00
xxshd97973

Surveyor General


THOMSON, JOHN TURNBULL

Octavo, staple 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: The Southland Historical Committee

KEYWORDS: New Zealand surveying history geography

$38.50
xxshd97980

The New Zealand Sealing Industry


SMITH, IAN

Copy of John Hall-Jones Imperial 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: New Zealand Department of Conservation 2002

KEYWORDS: envrionment New Zealand Seals history

$27.50
xxshd97984

History of the Grenadier Guards


MARTIN, CAPTAIN F.

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: Gale and Polden 1951

KEYWORDS: England history Grenadier Regiment war

$14.00
xxshd97985

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade


KINCAID, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Milford Oxford University Press 1919

KEYWORDS: autobiography history war

$30.00
xxshd97986

Britain at War


PRIESTLEY, J. B.

First edition, 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: Angus and Robertson Ltd 1943

KEYWORDS: sociolgy Briatin history world war two WW2

$35.00
xxshd97991

Notes on Some South Island Birds, and Maori Associations Connected Therewith.


COWAN, J.

Octavo, staple 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: John Mackay 1906

KEYWORDS: New Zealand environment birds natural history Maori

$16.50
xxshd97996

Copper Pipe-Line Services in Building


N/A

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Copper Development Association 1952

KEYWORDS: engineering copper pipelines history building

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