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$33.50
2i14/19

Rita Angus: An Artist's Life


TREVELYAN, JILL

Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xi + 420pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards) in d/w VG+ (light fading to spine & rear cover, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Te Papa Press 2008

KEYWORDS: Rita Angus Biography arts Women painters New Zealand Biography history Painting

$90.00
ak2/16/1381

Pohutukawa and Rata: New Zealand's Iron-Hearted Trees


SIMPSON, PHILIP

Folio, green cloth boards with lettering to spine & front board, red eps, xii + 346pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Te Papa Press 2005

KEYWORDS: Pohutukawa myrtaceae Rata New Zealand trees botany natural history

$65.00
2i14/25

Grune Holle Nurburgring: Faszination Nordschleife


KRALING, FERDI & MESSER, GREGOR

Text in German, Quarto, black boards with green lettering to spine, illus eps, 174pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (covered in clear contact, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Delius Klasing Verlag 2011

KEYWORDS: racing cars history sports

$200.00
2i14/26

Walter Rohrl Diary: Memories of a World Champion


ROHRL, WALTER & MULLER, WILFRIED

Folio, illus card boards with lettering to spine & boards, 255pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, covered in clear contact)

PUBLISHER: Verlag Reinhard Klein 2003

KEYWORDS: rally driving sports history autobiography Walter Rohrl World Champion motorsport car racing

$70.00
2i14/30

National Parks of Sarawak


HAZEBROEK, HANS P. & KASHIM BIN ABANG MORSHIDI, ABANG

Super octavo, illus boards with lettering to spine & fron board, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 502pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w Nr Fine

PUBLISHER: Natural History Publications (Borneo) 2001

KEYWORDS: National parks reserves Malaysia Sarawak Natural history environment forests

$40.00
2i14/35

England's Fight with the Papacy; A Political History


WALSH, WALTER

First edition, Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g., frontispiece, xix + 493pp, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light rubbing to boards, light fading to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, small dent to rear board edge, light tanning to page edges, previous owner's name & date in ink to fep, owner's label to fep, light foxing to first few pages, moderate browning to eps)

PUBLISHER: James Nisbet 1912

KEYWORDS: politics history Great Britain England Catholic Church Foreign relations religion

$40.00
2i14/36

Oil Burner Service Manual


STEINER, KALMAN & RAVNSBECK, FRED

ex-library, Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, ix + 365pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, slight foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1942

KEYWORDS: oil burners reference manual history

$200.00
2i14/37

The Inventor of the Numeral-Type for China by the Use of Which Illiterate Chinese Both Blind and Insighted


GORDON-CUMMING, CONSTANCE F.

Inscribed & signed by author with tipped in enclosures at rear annotated by author, octavo, yellow cloth boards with brown lettering to spine & front board, brown motif to rear board, black eps, frontispiecce, xii + 189pp, illus, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to title page)

PUBLISHER: Downey (n/d)

KEYWORDS: Blind Institutional Care China Printing writing systems history

$100.00
2i14/44

The Friar's Map of Ancient America 1360 AD: The Story of Nicholas of Lynn and the Franciscan Map of America


THOMPSON, GUNNAR

Quarto, illus light card covers, viii + 304pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to covers & spine, light soiling to cover)

PUBLISHER: Laura Lee Productions 1996

KEYWORDS: Nicholas Lynn North America Maps ancient history Cartography

$65.00
2i14/50

Mahomet and Islam: A Sketch of the Prophet's Life From Original Sources, and a Brief Outline of His History


MUIR, WILLIAM

Octavo, brown octavo boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, brown eps, frontispiece, 279pp, VG (light rubbing to boards, light soiling to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep, moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners)

PUBLISHER: Religious Tract Society 1887

KEYWORDS: Muḥammad Prophet Muslims religion Saudi Arabia Biography history

$50.00
2i15/2

Adventures of an Officer in the Service of Runjeet Singh


LAWRENCE, H.M.L.

Octavo, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxvii + 271pp, VG (moderate soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light fading to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1975

KEYWORDS: Sikhs History Fiction Punjab India literature

$45.00
2i15/7

Life and Letters of Mr. Endymion Porter: Sometime Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to King Charles the First


TOWNSHEND, DOROTHEA

Book plate of NZ art historian John Stacpoole, Super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, t.e.g., frontispiece, xii + 260pp, illus VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, previous owner's label to fep, light browning to eps)

PUBLISHER: T. Fischer Unwin 1879

KEYWORDS: biography letters Endymion Porter history

$65.00
2i15/8

House Industries


CRUZ, ANDY & BARBER, KEN & ROAT, RICH

Quarto, illus boards, illus eps, unpagenated, illus VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in slipcase VG+ (light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Die Gestalten Verlag 2004

KEYWORDS: House Industries Firm history type foundry cartography

$35.00
2i15/10

The Penguin History of New Zealand


FILER, DAVID & KING, MICHAEL

Super octavo, black heavy boards with white letterinng to spine, green eps, VG+ in d/w VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin Books 2004

KEYWORDS: history New Zealand culture sociology

$50.00
2i15/12

American Indian Healing: Only the Strong Survive


KUTENAI, KACHINAS

Quarto, illus light card covers with black lettering to spine & boards, xii + 103pp, illus, VG (ligth foxing to page edges, light fading to spine, light soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: The Sacred Rainbow Circle Foundation 1990

KEYWORDS: history culture religion medicine American Indian

$50.00
2i15/14

Passing It On: Short Talks in Tribal Fighting on the North-West Frontier of India


SKEEN, ANDREW

octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, 144pp, VG (previous owner's name in ink to fep, bookseller's label to fep, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light tanning & light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Gale & Polden Ltd 1943

KEYWORDS: India Army Military art science Officers handbook history

$40.00
2i15/22

Our War Nurses: The History of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps 1902-1988


GOODMAN, RUPERT

Quarto, illus heavy card boards, xv + 294pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to rear board, v slight bruising to board edges)

PUBLISHER: Boolarong Publications 1998

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian army nursing corps military history nuses medicine

$300.00
2i15/25

An Account of the Sarcophagus of Setu I. King of Egypt, B.C.1370


BUDGE, E.A. WALLIS

Scarce, first edition, octavo, red light card covers with lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 128pp, illus, VG- (paper surface mostly chipped off with significant loss to spine-binding fragile, light rubbing 7 moderate soiling to covers, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Harrison & Sons 1908

KEYWORDS: Egypt ancient history monarchy Sarcophagus Setu archaeology

$1000.00
2i15/26

The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs, and Manner. Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times. Four Volume Set


GROSE, FRANCIS (compiled) & ASTLE, THOMAS (compiled)

4-volume set, Includes double-page colour plate of Great Fire of London, quarto, halfbound, marbled boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule between five raised bands to brown leather spine, all page edges stained red, xxii + 391pp (vol 1), xii + 432pp (vol 2), viii + 446pp (vol 3), xvi + 744pp, illus, boards VG- (moderate rubbing, heavy bruising to spine extrems & board corners, spine head detached significantly to vol 4, front board of vol 4 & front board and rear board of vol 1 fully detached from spine, moderate browning to leather on boards, heavy creasing to spine extrems, some wear to vol 1 & 4 spines), text block VG (owner's book plate to all front pastedowns, some foxing and sporadiic tanning) VERY HEAVY SET

PUBLISHER: Edward Geoffrey 1807 (vol1),1808 (vol 2&3), 1809 (vol 4)

KEYWORDS: history Great Britain antiquities

$45.00
2i15/30

25 Centuries of Language Teaching


KELLY, L.G.

Super octavo, brown boards with black lettering to spine, illus eps, xi + 474pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) d/w VG- ( heavy rubbing with loss to fold repaired with archival tape, 1cm chipping to spine repaired with archival tape, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Newbury House 1969

KEYWORDS: languages Study teaching History Second language acquisition

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