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$60.00
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China Before China


FISKESJO, MAGNUS & XINGCAN, CHEN

Imperial octavo, illus stiffened boards, white lettering to red suede-effect spine, printed/illus eps, 159pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 2004

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history artefacts collections antiquities

$48.50
1f2a/4

Asia Inside Out: Changing Times


TAGLIACOZZO, ERIC (Ed) & SIU, HELEN F (Ed) & PERDUE, PETER C (Ed)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 325pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history culture

$48.50
1f2a/5

Asia Inside Out: Connected Places


TAGLIACOZZO, ERIC (Ed) & SIU, HELEN F (Ed) & PERDUE, PETER C (Ed)

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 418pp, illus, VG+ (spine warped & lightly bruised, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: Asia Asian history culture geopolitics

$50.00
1f2a/6

China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty


LEWIS, MARK EDWARD

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, grey gilt lettering to black buckram spine, unpaginated prelims + 356pp, illus, VG+ (spine lightly warped & bruised) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history tang dynasty antiquity

$95.00
1f2a/9

A History of Chinese Philosphy (2 Vol Set)


YU-LAN, FUNG & BODDE, DERK (Trans)

2 VOL SET, octavo, grey light card covers, blue & black lettering to spines, frontispieces, vol 1- xxxiv + 455pp, vol 2- xxv + 783pp, VG+ (light creasing to spines & cover edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, single moderate crack to central gutter of vol 1)

PUBLISHER: Princeton Universtiy Press 1983

KEYWORDS: China Chinese history philosophy classical studies oriental historical antiquity

$80.00
1f2a/11

Historians of China and Japan


BEASLEY, W G (Ed) & PULLEYBLANK, E G (Ed)

Super octavo, red buckram boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, viii + 351pp, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: China Chinese Japan Japanese historians history historiography Asia

$22.50
xxsck214814

Check to Your King


HYDE, ROBIN

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: A H & A W Reed 1960

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Charles Baron de Thierry biography biographies sovereignty

$9.00
xxsck214818

Fragments From a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History


KIDMAN, JOANNA et al

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2022

KEYWORDS: BWB texts series New Zealand authors writers literature Joanna Kidman history

$16.50
xxscn214826

Women Writers of New Zealand 1932-1982


HAYWARD, MARGARET (Ed) & COWLEY, JOY (Ed)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Colonial Associates 1982

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature writers authors women history portraits biographies

$30.00
xxsco214838

Elizabeth I


NEALE, J E & STRONG, ROY (Intro)

Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in slipcase (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 Folio Society 2005

KEYWORDS: British monarchs folio society history queens Queen Elizabeth i 1st first royal family

$28.50
xxscr214851

Ghost South Road


HAMILTON, SCOTT & POWELL, IAN (Photos) & JANMAN, PAUL (Photos)

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: Atuanui Press 2018

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history war Great South Road

$25.00
xxscv214870

Saint Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans II: Books IV-VII


SAINT AUGUSTINE & GREEN, WILLIAM M (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, sm 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: Loeb / William Heinemann / Harvard University Press 1963

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series literature ancient history Rome Roman Saint Augustine

$25.00
xxscv214871

Suetonius, Vol I


SUETONIUS & ROLFE, J C (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, sm 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: Loeb / William Heinemann / Harvard University Press 1970

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series literature ancient history Rome Roman antiquity Seutonius

$25.00
xxscw214884

Saint Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans, I: Books I-III


SAINT AUGUSTINE & McCRACKEN, GEORGE E (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, sm 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: Loeb / William Heinemann / Harvard University Press 1966

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series literature ancient history antiquity Saint Augustine

$22.50
xxscw214885

Seneca: Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol II


SENECA & GUMMERE, RICHARD M (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH, LACKS D/W, sm 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: Loeb / William Heinemann / Harvard University Press 1962

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN & ENGLISH Loeb classical library series literature ancient history antiquity Seneca

$45.00
1e3c/3

Striding Both Worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand's Literary Traditions


KENNEDY, MELISSA

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xix + 255pp, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Rodopi N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori culture literary traditions Witi Ihimaera history literature

$45.00
1e3c/4

Rabble Rousers and Merry Pranksters: A History of Anarchism in Aotearoa/New Zealand From the Mid-1950s to the Early 1980s


BORAMAN, TOBY

SIGNE D& INSCRIBED, super octavo, illus light card covers, red & white lettering to spine, x + 144pp, illus, VG+ (light curling to covers, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Katipo Books / Irrecuperable Press 2007

KEYWORDS: signed Toby Boraman New Zealand modern history anarchy anarchism civil unrest

$40.00
1e3c/10

Limbs Dance Company: Dance For All People 1977-1989


SCHULTZ, MARIANNE

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white & yellow lettering to spine, frontispiece, 167pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Marianne Schultz 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand dance companies Limbs company history entertainment

$60.00
1e3c/11

Character and Structure of the Action in Maori


JOHANSEN, J PRYTZ

Octavo, grey light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, 66pp, VG (light creasing & tanning to spine & cover edges, minor chipping & loss to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges, moderate cracking to front gutter)

PUBLISHER: I Kommission hos Ejnar Munksgaard 1948

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori culture history

$175.00
1e3c/18

The History of Cartography, Volume Two Book Two: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies


HARLEY, J B (Ed) & WOODWARD, DAVID (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, VERY HEAVY- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, quartom grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 970pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page edges, occasional closed tearing to page edges of prelims) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1994

KEYWORDS: maps history mapping cartography east southeast Asia exploration

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