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$60.00
ak2/13a/48

The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, RA, The Naturalist in HMS Alert 1875-1876


FEILDEN, Captain HENRY WEMYSS & LEVERE, TREVOR H (Ed)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, frontispiece, xxxi + 400pp, illus/maps, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Routledge 2019

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history exploration voyages arctic journals diaries Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden HMS Alert 19th nineteenth century British expeditions north pole

$120.00
ak2/18a/1

The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger 1811-1820 (3 Vol Set)


SCORESBY THE YOUNGER, WILLIAM & JACKSON, C IAN (Ed) & HUXTABLE, GEORGE (Appendix) & WALKER, FRED M (Appendix)

3 VOL SET, imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & blind stamp bands to spines, gilt ship motif to front boards, frontispiece, mixed pagination, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Ashgate 2003-2009

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society exploration voyages Arctic north pole whaling journals history historical 19th nineteenth century William Scoresby the Younger

$120.00
ak2/18a/2

Joao Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan


COOPER, MICHAEL (Ed)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, frontispiece, xli + 428pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2001

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history exploration Joao Rodrigues 16th sixetenth century Japan voyages

$195.00
ak2/18a/3

English Travellers to Venice 1450-1600


BRENNAN, MICHAEL G (Ed)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, frontispiece, xxxiv + 433pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Routledge 2022

KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history exploration adventures English Venice 15th 16th fifteenth sixteenth century Italy

$45.00
ak2/18a/4

Picasso Love and War 1935-1945


BALDASSARI, ANNE

Quarto, black heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to spine & front board, all page edges stained purple, illus prelims, 317pp, illus, Near FINE (slight bruising & rubbing to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine/front cover, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Flammarion 2006

KEYWORDS: art history biography biographies memoir Pablo Picasso Dora Maar

$40.00
ak2/18a/5

Labour of Love: Childbirth at Dunedin Hospital 1862-1972


WASSNER, ADELHEID

Quarto, illus brown light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, 294pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl soiling to page edges, sm newspaper clipping & prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Adelheid Wassner 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Dunedin Hospital childbirth birthing units medical

$75.00
ak2/18a/7

The Doctrine of the Nerves: Chapters in the History of Neurology


SPILLANE, JOHN D

Imperial octavo, bue buckram board, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 467pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (lighto to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, sl chafing, sl tanning to flaps, sm adhesive labels to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: medical neurology history nerves

$40.00
ak2/18a/12

Arab Command: The Biography of Lieutenant-Colonel F G Peake Pasha (Fourth Impression)


JARVIS, Major C S

Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps to eps, frontispiece, 158pp, illus, VG (light bruising & discolouration to spine & board edges/extrems, minor fading/discolouration to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges- minor loss & reinforcement to spine, light tanning & foxing, light chafing & soiling, heavy cracking to rear hinge/spine)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1943

KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Lieutenant-Colonel F G Peake Pasha military history

$65.00
ak2/18a/13

San Martin: Argentine Soldier, American Hero


LYNCH, JOHN

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 265pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems, top corner of half title page removed, prev. bookseller's plastic barcode to terminal pages) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, sl creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Spanish American history independence politics geography geopolitics Jose de San Martin

$48.50
ak2/18a/14

When the Smoke Clears: A History of the Timaru Fire Brigade 1864-1995


THE TIMARU FIRE BRIGADE CLUB

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#95/500), octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 145pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate fading)

PUBLISHER: The Timaru Fire Brigade Club 1995

KEYWORDS: New Zealand emergency services fire service brigade Timaru history

$350.00
ak2/18a/25

Rural Sports, Volume 2 (Parts I + II) and Supplement Volume (3 Vol Set)


DANIEL, Rev Wm B (BARKER, WILLIAM)

REBOUND 3 VOL SET- volume 2 only- bound as 2 vols plus supplement volume, super octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, red speckling to page edges, modern eps, part 1- (6) + 378pp, part 2- (10) + 354pp, supp. vol- (14) + 742pp + index to rear, frontispiece to supplement vol, illus, VG (moderate rubbing/scuffing & bruising to spines & board edges & extrems- some surface loss, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to front gutters of parts 1 & 2, moderate foxing throughout, light chafing to boards- minor surface loss)

PUBLISHER: Philanthropic Society (Printer) 1812-13

KEYWORDS: rural sports angling fly fishing flyfishing hobbies historical history

$40.00
ak2/18a/27

Dunedin: Early Photographs (First Series from the Hardwicke Knight Collection)


KNIGHT, HARDWICKE

FIRST SERIES, tidy ex-library, oblong quarto, illus spiral bound light card covers, red lettering to covers, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (minimal library markings, light to moderate creasing & soiling to covers, light tanning)

PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand heritage Dunedin Hardwicke Knight art photos photography history historical

$45.00
ak2/18a/30

The Story of the Arab Legion


GLUBB, Brigadier JOHN BAGOT

Octavo, orange buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt military insignia to front board, to ppage edges stained red, illus/maps to eps, frontispiece, 371pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & moderate fading to spine & board extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. booksellers' markings to front eps) in d/w, G+ (heavy chipping/tearing & loss to spine & edges- clear tape repairs, minor chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1948

KEYWORDS: military history Arab legion middle east

$100.00
ak2/18a/33

Mac's Memoirs: The Flying Life of Squadron-Leader McGregor


CUNNINGHAM, G H

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, octavo, blue leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to front board, top page edges stained blue- faded, frontispiece, 160pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, moderate fading to spine extrems, light chafing & discolouration to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, occasional foxing throughout, jacket taped to front board) in d/w, G+ (jacket taped to front board with front flap detached but present, heavy loss & tape repair/reinforcement to edges, light to moderate tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed N/D (c.1937?)

KEYWORDS: signed limited editions G H Cunningham biography biographies memoir Squadron-Leader McGregor military history aviation New Zealand

$50.00
ak2/18a/35

Chinese Art Motives


TREDWELL, WINIFRED REED (Interpreted by)

LACKS D/W, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 110pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning & soiling to eps, ex-libris plate & prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: G P Putnam's Sons 1915

KEYWORDS: art history China Chinese interpretation criticism

$45.00
ak2/18a/36

Pfaltzgraff: America's Potter


WALSH, DAVID A (Researched & Compiled by) & STETLER, POLLY (Researched & Compiled by)

Square super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 128pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- sl loss, light fading to spine, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Pfaltzgraff Co 1989

KEYWORDS: Pfaltzgraff pottery potters art history crafts

$195.00
ak2/18a/38

Life and Works of Robert Burns: Critical and Analytical Edition


WADDELL, P HATELY

Heavy quarto, half leather bound green buckram boards, gilt lettering/tooling & raised bands to spine, gilt lettering & illus to front board, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, mixed pagination, illus, VG (moderate rubbing & bruising to leatherwork with some surface loss, light chafing & soiling to boards, heavy cracking at front gutter, light to moderate soiling throughout, frontis tissue guard & rear ep missing, heavy cracking to rear gutter, annotation in ink to terminal page)

PUBLISHER: David Wilson 1881

KEYWORDS: Robert Burns literature poets poetry verse poems Scotland Scottish literary biography criticism history historical

$125.00
2e9a/1

The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period Vol. I (1845-1864)


COWAN, JAMES

First edition. This volume only. Demy 8vo, pp. xx + 459; red buckram bds, spine & front board lettered in black; frontis., patterned eps, photos, illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; sticker peeled from front pastedown; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep verso; light cracking to central & rear gutters; bdg sloppy

PUBLISHER: W. A. G. Skinner 1922

KEYWORDS: early New Zealand 19th century history pioneers pioneering Maori war warfare colonization colonial

$175.00
2e9a/7

Alonso Victor de Paredes' Institution, and the Origin of the Art of Printing, and General Rules for Compositors [Madrid: ca. 1680]


DE PAREDES, ALONSO VICTOR; ALVAREZ, PABLO (ed); CRUICKSHANK, DON W (forew)

Imp. 8vo, pp. xvi + 449; black buckram bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; frontis., photos, illus.; NF (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor tanning & soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; sl bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: The Legacy Press 2018

KEYWORDS: Alonso Victor de Paredes Pablo Alvarez 18th century printing publishing history methods techniques book arts design letterpress bibliography

$45.00
2e9a/8

The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces


BERRY, W TURNER & JOHNSON, A F & JASPERT, W P

Super 8vo, pp. 358; blue cl bds, spine lettered in silver gilt, bds lettered in blind; illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's sticker to front pastedown; bdg sl sloppy; peeled sticker to front board; light to moderate tanning throughout); in d/w, VG- (light to moderate fading, scuffing & soiling; mdoerate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping and loss; lg closed tear along fold at spine; sm open tear along fold at spine; moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Blandford Press 1958

KEYWORDS: W Turner Berry A F Johnson w P Jaspert book arts design lettering letters words type faces typefaces printing publishing history bibliography foundry foundries alphabet typography

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