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$45.00
2f30b/28

On Record: Being the Reminiscences of Isaac Coates 1840-1932


COATES, ISAAC

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 163pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning to spine, ligth soiling & foxing/tanning to covers)

PUBLISHER: Paul's Book Arcade 1962

KEYWORDS: New Zealand early settlers history Isaac Coates

$15.00
xxcgg187262

Anzac: A Retrospect


MALTHUS, CECIL

LACKS D/W; BOARDS STAINED; 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: Whitcombe & Tombs 1965

KEYWORDS: cecil malthus new zealand anzac great first world war one ww1 wwi military history memoir

$12.50
xxchb187268

Everybody's Story of New Zealand


REED, A.H.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-, torn at base of spine) ; 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: Reed 1950

KEYWORDS: a.h. reed new zealand history general popular

$3750.00
os1/65

New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive


BARRAUD, C. D. (Illus) & TRAVERS, W. T. L. (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, elephant folio, half leather bound terracotta buckram boards, decorative gilt lettering & tooling to front board, beautiful hand decorated gift/presentation plate, frontispiece, 40pp, 31 chromo- & plain lithographs with 31 woodcuts- all seemingly present, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & extrems with some surface loss & soiling/staining, moderate scuffing & soiling to boards, minor wrinkling to buckram on boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light soiling & wrinkling to eps with minor foxing, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims, heavy crack to gutter of dedication page, moderate closed tearing to some page & plate edges, light sporadic soiling & tanning/foxing to pages throughout) in protective heavy boarded folder, leather spine & clasps, VG- (heavy tanning & foxing with moderate scuffing & chafing)

PUBLISHER: Samson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 1877

KEYWORDS: New Zealand first editions illustrated townships lakes history historical drawings illustrations

$55.00
2f30b/40

Swift and Sure: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals and Army Signalling in New Zealand


BARBER, LAURIE & LORD, CLIFF

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 296pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light occasional cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, sl fading)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Signals Incorporated 1996

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history royal corps of signals army signalling communications

$95.00
2f30b/48

Otago Early Photographs (Third Series From the Hardwicke Knight Collection)


KNIGHT, HARDWICKE

SIGNED & NUMBERED, oblong quarto, illus light card covers, black spiral bound, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1987

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hardwicke Knight art photos photography collection Otago Dunedin history historical signed Port Chalmers

$65.00
2f30b/49

People and Buildings in Early Photographs of Dunedin (Fourth Series from the Hardwicke Knight Collection)


KNIGHT, HARDWICKE

Oblong quarto, illus light card covers, red spiral bound, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing & curling/scuffing to cover edges, light soiling & foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1992

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hardwicke Knight art photos photography collection Otago Dunedin history historical buildings

$600.00
1a5b/2

Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper: With an Ample Enumeration of the Most Renowned Masters and Their Works.


EVELYN, JOHN

SECOND EDITION, ONLY ONE PLATE PRESENT, OWNERSHIP OF A DESCENDANT OF THE AUTHOR! Sm octavo, brown full leather boards, gilt lettering to title plate on spine with gilt rule & raised bands, gilt rule to boards, red speckling to page edges, xxxvi + 140pp, VG- (heavy scuffing & surface loss to spine & board edges, moderate scuffing & bruising to boards, 4cm crack to lower front hinge, moderate tanning to page edges, heavy cracking to some gutters throughout, ex-libris plate & prev. seller's sm label to front pastedown, heavy tanning & light foxing to edges of eps & prelims/terminals, age appropriate discolouration to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: J. Payne 1755

KEYWORDS: chalcography craft hobbies John Evelyn copper brass engraving masters history

$350.00
1a5b/3

Bridging: The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War, 1914-19


N/A

ALL MAPS & PLATES PRESENT, super octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 87pp, maps & plates/illus, VG (moderate fading to spine & board edges with some light soiling, light tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps, minor soiling & creasing to folding maps & illus/plates)

PUBLISHER: W. & J. Mackay & Co 1921

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war 1 one i the Great War Royal Engineers bridges construction building

$22.50
xxchb187275

Yellow River, Mules and Mountains: A New Zealand Nurse in China 1947-1950


EASTON-THOMPSON, ISOBEL

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Puriri Press 2002

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history nurses nursing Isobel Easton-Thompson China medical staff CORSO autobiography memoir

$15.00
xxchg187290

Russia's War


OVERY, RICHARD

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1998

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii Russia Russian

$35.00
xxcic187293

The Brotherhood: Inside the Secret World of the Freemasons


DEDOPULOS, TIM

Imperial 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: Viking / Penguin 2006

KEYWORDS: secret societies freemasons freemasonry masonic history

$17.50
xxcic187294

Roaring Boys: Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England


COOK, JUDITH & DORAN, GREGORY (Fore)

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG+) some adhesion to pages; 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: Sutton Publishing 2004

KEYWORDS: history theatre theater playwrights Elizabethan Jacobean period England English actors

$16.50
xxcid187311

After the Flood: What the Dambusters Did Next


NICHOL, JOHN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: William Collins 2015

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii dambusters 617 squadron Lancaster bombers war heroes

$20.00
xxcie187321

Voicing Scotland: Folk, Culture, Nation


WEST, GARY

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Luath Press Ltd 2013

KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish history culture music tradition traditional

$25.00
xxcie187326

The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars


FREISENBRUCH, ANNELISE

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 2010

KEYWORDS: ancient Rome Roman history women antiquity

$16.50
xxcie187327

Women's Words: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archives in the Alexander Turnbull Library Relating to Women in the Nineteenth Century


MEADS, DIANA (Compiled by) & RAINER, PHILIP (Compiled by) & SANDERSON, KAY (Compiled by)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Alexander Turnbull Library 1988

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlers women manuscripts archives Alexander Turnbull Library collections 19th nineteenth century

$25.00
xxcif187341

Maori and European (Extract from Vol 61, Nos 1 and 2, March, June 1952)


SUTHERLAND, I. L. G.

Octavo stapled light card covers (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: The Polynesian Society 1952

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori European pakeha I L G Sutherland history culture

$20.00
xxcif187351

The Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair


YOUNG, HUGO

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1998

KEYWORDS: British politics political leaders history 20th twentieth century government Europe

$15.00
xxcig187363

An Outline of Australian Naval History


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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Australian Government Publishing Service 1976

KEYWORDS: military naval navy history Australia Australian maritime

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