Books - "reference"
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Manual of the Steam Engine (Galbraith & Haughton's Scientific Manuals)
Duodecimo brown cloth decorated boards, gilt emblem to front,gilt lettering to spine, yellow endpapers with advertisments, 64pp+xi equilbrium valve table appendix, red edges, VG+ (a very smart copy, minor scuffing to boards, light tanning within)
PUBLISHER: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin [n/d, c. late 19th c. (New Edition Revised by the Author)]
KEYWORDS: engineering technology science reference technical steam engine turbine railway trains rail engines engine locomotive thermodynamics physics
John Dos Passos: A Comprehensive Bibliography
EX-LIBRARY, octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1987
KEYWORDS: bibliography reference guide john dos passos
From Wisdom Court
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1893
KEYWORDS: aphorisms maxims wisdom reference
Brett's Auckland Almanac 1936
Octavo yellow light stapled card covers, 216pp, VG- (archival tape repairs to spine, binding still sound; moderate to heavy tanning and soiling; prev. owner's sticker to front and 1936 written in pen along edges; rust stain from staples)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Newspapers Limited 1936
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland reference directory almanac listings history historical ephemera calendar business
Stone's Canterbury, Nelson, Marlborough and Westland Commercial, Municipal and General Directory and New Zealand Annual 1939
Tall imperial ocatvo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, xiv+1402pp+appendices, G- (heavy insect damage throughout: most of the text is OK, with said damage confined to the corners of the pages, esp. at front - however, to the some of the last pages, tears are present, and small portions of the text missing; heavy scuffing and rubbing to boards with some surface loss; prev. owner's stamp to edges; rough but readable, binding is sound)
PUBLISHER: Stone, Son & Co. 1939
KEYWORDS: reference annual almanac directory Stone's Canterbury Nelson Marlborough Westland business history New Zealand
Traditions of the Covenanters of Gleanings Among the Mountains
THREE VOLUME SET, duodecimo 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Presbyterian Board of Publication (n.d)
KEYWORDS: history social science reference travel religion
Water-Colour Guidance
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1951
KEYWORDS: watercolour landscape painting art reference guide
A Guide to Religions
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: SPCK 1994
KEYWORDS: Religion world reference guide
Manukau Harbour: A Bibliography of Publications Relating to the Manukau Harbour New Zealand
Small octavo 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Manukau Harbour Protection Society 1991
KEYWORDS: manukau harbour new zealand bibliography reference guide ecology climate geology history development sewage waste navigation shipping
Serials on British Television 1950-1994
Octavo green cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, xiii+332pp, VG (very tidy ex-library, usual stamps & markings thus; light tanning & soiling to pages) in d/w VG (usual stamps and markings, light scuffing and v. sl. fading)
PUBLISHER: Scolar Press 1996
KEYWORDS: British television tv serials actors directors reference series production
Wise's New Zealand Index 1939
Small 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: H. Wise & Co. 1939
KEYWORDS: Wises street map index reference directory New Zealand history historical ephemera local
The Forefathers: A Dictionary of Biography of the Jews of Australia 1788-1830
Octavo grey light card covers, 139pp, VG- (moderate fading and mdoerate to heavy soiling to covers, light tanning soiling and foxing within, retail price sticker to rear)
PUBLISHER: Australian Jewish Historical Society 1976
KEYWORDS: Jewish history Australia Australian jewry Judaism dictionary reference Historical Society family genealogy
The Municipal Handbook of New Zealand 1907
Octavo navy blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, decorated endpapers, 150pp, VG- (light scuffing and moderate to heavy soiling to boards, light tanning and foxing within, prev. owner's stamp & details in pen opposite title)
PUBLISHER: Government Printing Office 1908
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history reference handbook municipal directory local regional
Cyclopedia of New Zealand Volume 3: Canterbury
VERY ROUGH COPY, lacks title page & prelims, tatty; quarto half bound brown/black leather, gilt emblem to front, gilt lettering to spine, 1116pp, G- (as above, lacks title & prelims: boards detached, many pages (esp. those front, and the last) substantially ripped, torn; boards heavy scuffing and rubbing, spine torn, light tanning within)
PUBLISHER: Cyclopedia Co. [c. 1900's]
KEYWORDS: New Zealand reference cyclopedia encyclopedia Canterbury Christchurch business listings almanack history regional local settler pioneer colonial
Shipping Arrivals and Departures: Tasmania Volume III [3]: 1843 - 1850
Quarto maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus. endpapers (map & ship sections), xiv+603pp, VG+ (light foxing to edges, prev. owner's stamp to title, otherwise nr. FINE) in d/w VG+ (light fading and scuffing)
PUBLISHER: Roebuck / Navarine Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: Shipping Arrivals and Departures Tasmania Roebuck immigration Australia Australian history records reference maritime
Leightons Auckland Provincial Directory 1940
Super octavo red cloth boards, 2320pp+adverts, G+ (spine completely covered with grey gaffer/masking tape repair, binding sound though, one page of adverts loose, moderate scuffing to boards and tanning to contents, business advertisment stamped to edges as usual with these directories)
PUBLISHER: Leightons 1940
KEYWORDS: New Zealand reference Auckland directory business history ephemera listings advertising advetisments Leighton Leightons Leighton's
Arms Control and Disarmament, Defense and Military, International Security, and Peace: An Annotated Guide to Sources 1980-1987
Super octavo hardcover (VG, tidy ex-library); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: ABC-Clio ABC Clio 1989
KEYWORDS: bibliography arms control disarmament defence military international politics security peace reference
Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial and Commonwealth History since 1600
Super octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx+1060pp, VG+ (very tidy ex-library, save for usual stamps and markings, nr. FINE) in d/w VG+ (no stamps or markings, light scuffing and trace of sticker residue to front, otherwise nr. FINE)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2002
KEYWORDS: bibliography reference british imperial colonial colonialism commonwealth empire history world global Royal Historical Society The History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas
Repertorium Biblicum seu Totius Sacre Scripturae Concordantiae (2 volume set) [Concordantiae Vulgate]
HEAVY 2x VOLUME SET, TEXT IN LATIN, ex-library; quarter bound quarto black leather boards, gilt lettering and bands to spines; 1143pp / 1150p, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing and rubbing to boards, cracks to spines but binding sound, moderate tanning within, occassional light to moderate foxing; usual stamps and markings)
PUBLISHER: Taurini 1887
KEYWORDS: Repertorium Biblicum seu Totius Sacre Scripturae Concordantiae Juxta Vulgatae Editionis Exemplar Sisti V. Pontif Maximi Jussu Recognitum et Clementis VIII Auctoritate Editum Praeter Alphabeticum Ordinem in Grammaticalem Redactae Sac. Michaele Bechis Leoni Papae XIII 13 13th thirteenth catholic catholicism reference christian christianity pope papal Latin bible biblical concordance vulgate
The Basics of Astrology (3 volume set: Chart Erection / Chart Interpretation / Tables & Reference)
3x VOLUME SET, black illus. light card covers, VG (light creasing & curling to covers, heavy foxing to edges, light foxing & tanning within)
PUBLISHER: Uranus 1977
KEYWORDS: astrology chart charts reference tables divination prediction esoteric esotericism