Military Uniforms of Britain and the Empire 1742 to the Present Time by R. Money Barnes London: Seeley Service, 1960. The Imperial Services Library Volume IV, 346pp, colour plates, B/W illus. A sound copy, name stamp on ffep, name on title page and written on outer edge, offsetting to eps, DJ worn, discoloured.  $40.00 Culloden [...]

New Zealand Railways Magazine was published in Wellington by the New Zealand Government Railways Department from 1926 to 1940. From an in-house journal it developed under the editorship of G. G. Stewart into one of the most popular monthlies of the 1930s. Pat Lawlor, under the pseudonym ‘Shibli Bagarag’, contributed a regular book column in [...]

The Hakluyt collections have finally emerged and are now catalogued. Here is a list of all available titles, listed by date of publication. Please contact me if you wish to know more about condition etc. Pictures are available. Lynam, Edward (ed.). Richard Hakluyt and His Successors: A Volume Issued to Commemorate the Centenary of the [...]

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herotodus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow, Hb, $30 The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps by Eric Hazan, Hb, $30 The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and Their Peoples by David Gilmour, Hb, $30 The [...]

C. E. W. Bean: The Story of Anzac: The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, Volume I, pb $40 Antony Beevor: Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, pb $12 Peter Brune: A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua: Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona, Buna, Sanananda, pb $25 David C. Chandler: The [...]

Balazs, Etienne. Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. First Edition. xix, 309pp. $25.00 Capon, Edmund et al. Imperial China The Living Past. Sydney: Art Exhibitions Australia, 1992. 160pp, colour plates  $20.00 Chang, Kwang-chih. The Archaeology of Ancient China Third Edition Revised. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. ISBN: 0300021445. xviii, 535pp, [...]

Greek & Roman History paperbacks The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD395-600 by Averil Cameron $16 The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World by Charles Freeman $18 The Greek World 479-323BC by Simon Hornblower $20 The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia $25 Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities by Hans van Wees $25 [...]

A selection of recently arrived History titles: The Renaissance by Paul Johnson, hb $14 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, trade pb $20 Culture & Imperialism by Edward Said, trade pb $20 The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy, trade pb $30 [...]

The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascos, Palace Coups by Ron Rosenbaum The Book of Proust by Philippe Michel-Thiriet Orwell: The Authorised Biography by Michael Shelden The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Lawrence James Gladstone: A Biography by Roy Jenkins Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory Lost [...]

Peter Sculthorpe His Music and His Ideas 1929-1979 by Michael Hannan Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1982 ISBN: 0702215899. 235pp, B/W plates, insc. on dedication page reads: Thanks for Quiros dear Brian, with best wishes, Peter. July, 1982 $30.00 A History of Japanese Music by Eta Harich-Schneider London: Oxford University Press, 1973 ISBN: 0193162032. 720pp, [...]