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$145.00
1i32a/16

Avesta Sheffield Corrosion Handbook for Stainless Steels


n/a

Large quarto, heavy card boards, 88pp, VG (some labels to front board & front pastedown, light foxing to upper page edges)

PUBLISHER: Avesta Sheffield 1994

KEYWORDS: engineering corrosion resistance stainless steel chemistry metallurgy design reference

$165.00
1i32a/46

Les Avions Dewoitine


DANEL, RAYMOND & CUNY, JEAN

Quarto, dark blue heavy card boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 475pp, illus, VG+ (v. slight tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (small closed tear to upper edge, light soiling) TEXT IN FRENCH

PUBLISHER: Editions Lariviere 1980

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH aviation history aircraft aeroplanes reference

$12.50
xxsja102906

Charles Demuth: Behind a Laughing Mask


FARNHAM, EMILY

Ex Library, 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Univerity of Oklahoma Press 1971

KEYWORDS: biography history reference

$50.00
1n11b/34

The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants


CAVE, YVONNE & PADDISON, VALDA

First edition; Large quarto, glossy heavy card boards with yellow lettering to spine, 320pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising and scuffing to spine and board extrems, v sl soiling to page edges) in d/w VG (light scuffing to extrems, light tanning to spine)

PUBLISHER: Godwit/Random House 1999

KEYWORDS: New Zealand horticulture gardening native plants reference encyclopaedia

$100.00
1n11b/42

The Outline of History being a Plain History of Life and Mankind


WELLS, H. G. & HORRABIN, J. F. (Illus)

First edition thus (first revised edition), wo-volume set, quarto, dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind-stamped publisher's logo to front board, upper page edgesstained red/brown, frontispiece, x + 384pp + viii + 385-767pp, illus, VG (light staining & rubbing to boards, some tanning to page edges, heavy browning to prelims & terminals, HEAVY SET

PUBLISHER: The Waverley Book Co 1925

KEYWORDS: illustrated history encyclopaedia reference

$18.50
xxdfb103094

The Plant-book: A Portable Dictionary of the Higher Plants


MABBERLEY, D. J.

Slim plastic softcover quarto (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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1987

KEYWORDS: reference dictionary botany flowering plants conifers ferns Cronquist's system zoology gardening forestry agricultre

$27.50
xxfcf103107

Atlas of Iraqi War Crimes in the State of Kuwait / Atlas des Crimes de Guerre Iraqienne dans l'Etat du Koweit


Al-HAMMADI, ABDULLAH M & AL-ABDALRAZAQ, ABDULATEEF

Elephant folio 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 will reduce your overall postage cost. VERY HEAVY ITEM

PUBLISHER: Al Qabas Press 1995

KEYWORDS: Iraq Kuwait war military history crime atlas reference TEXT IN FRENCH & ENGLISH

$80.00
2e11a/32

A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900


WILLIAMS, HERBERT W.

First edition, super octavo, red paper stapled wrappers with black lettering to front, xvi + 198pp, VG (moderate fading to covers & esp to spine, chaffing to spine sides, owner's name in ink to front cover, owner's name & date in ink to fep, some foxing & tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: WAG Skinner Governement Printer 1924

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori bibliography reference

$100.00
2e11a/69

Ninth to Fourteenth Annual Report of the Colonial Museum and Laboratory; together with a List of Donations and Deposits during 1873-1879


HECTOR, JAMES (Director)

Reports of 9th to 14th bound together, super octavo, half bound with dark grey textured cloth boards and gilt lettering to black leather spine, paged edges stained speckled red, brown coated eps, 35pp + 50pp + 28pp + 55pp + 39pp + 54pp, VG (heavy scuffing with loss of surface to spine extrems & board corners & spine sides, bookbinder's label to front pastedown, owner's name & date in ink to first title page, occasional light foxing)

PUBLISHER: George Didsbury Government Printer 1874-1879

KEYWORDS: New Zealand colonial museum laboratory history reference

$150.00
2g24b/4

Geographical Encyclopaedia of New South Wales including the Counties, Towns, and Villages within the Colony


HANSON, WILLIAM

Imperial octavo, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board and black map of Australia to front board, brown coated eps, large double-sided folding map + iii + 462pp + 5pp adverts, VG (some staining to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, heavy browning to page edges, inscription in ink to fep verso, 14cm closed tear repaired to folding map, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Charles Potter Government Printer 1892

KEYWORDS: reference Australian geography geographical encyclopaedia New South Wales light-houses

$45.00
2f8a/21

British Paintings of teh Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Washington DC Systematic Catalogue)


HAYES, JOHN

Quarto, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, grey eps, xv + 407pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name & date in ink to fep) in d/w, VG+ (creasing to front & rear flap folds)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1992

KEYWORDS: British painting art catalogue reference

$10.00
xxfng104788

A Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words


URDANG, LAURENCE (Ed)

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Readers Union Group 1972

KEYWORDS: vocabulary words reference dictionary errors

$30.00
xxfjf104831

Speer Rifle & Pistol Reloading Manual


n/a

Super 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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Speer / Blount Sporting erquipment 1995

KEYWORDS: guns weapons weaponry rifles pistols reference

$12.50
xxdxg105255

The Oxford History of New Zealand


OLIVER, W. H. & WILLIAMS, B. R.

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: Oxford University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history reference

$24.50
xxgvf105604

A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science


MCCABE, JOSEPH

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) (cover detatching from spine at rear, pen inscription on title page); 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: C. A. Watts & Co 1948

KEYWORDS: rationalism religion philosophy ethics science reference book encyclopedia encyclopaedia

$32.50
xxgrd105955

Australian Skiing: A Complete Handbook


CROSS, WENDY (ed) & BEILBY, PETER

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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson Australia & Roscope Publishers (n/d)

KEYWORDS: skiing sports Australia travel reference

$16.50
xxgrd105969

Alamein: War Without Hate


BIERMAN, JOHN & SMITH, COLIN

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: Penguin Books 2003

KEYWORDS: history war military reference world war two WW2

$50.00
2s21/13

The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds


TERRES, JOHN K.

Folio, cream cloth boards with gilt letttering to spine, black eps, illus prelims, xv + 1109pp, illus ,VG (light staining to spine base, owner's name in ink to prelim & to lower page edges) in d/w, VG (some creasing & tanning to edges)

PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 1980

KEYWORDS: encyclopaedia reference ornithology North American birds

$15.00
xxfra107086

Modern Mathematical Analysis


MORREY, CHARLES B. & PROTTER, MURRAY H.

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 will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Addison-Wesley Publishing 1964

KEYWORDS: reference mathematics maths

$55.00
2s21/42

An Atlas of Speciation in African Non-Passerine Birds


SNOW, D. W. (Ed)

Folio, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt British Museum motif to front board, vii + 390pp, illus, VG (owner's name & date in ink to title page, slight tanning to eps & page edges)

PUBLISHER: Trustees of the British Museum 1978

KEYWORDS: ornithology Africa African non-passerine birds atlas reference

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