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Water Resources Data for Idaho
by Us Dept of Interior
newly printed copies cost 303.09 in 2019library and 2500-16 written at top front coverstamped front coverspine has title and inventory numbersfew nicks and slight discoloration along spinetext unmarked. 374 pagesindexone illustration comparing discharge rates at one station over 30 year period
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NZ$68.09
The Royal Military Canal
by Vine P A L
Newton Abbot, Great Britain: David & Charles, 1972. 1st Edition . Buckram. Very Good++/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. 8vo. 239 pages. Well illustrated with 56 excellent black and white photographic plates and colour frontispiece together with 24 illustrations in text including maps. In original beige buckram gilt hard cover binding. Very Good++ in Very Good+ attractive pictorial dust wrapper which is faded on the spine.
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NZ$17.04
Correspondence Respecting the Navigation of the United States' Canals by Canadian Vessels
by THORNTON, Sir Edward, et al
London: Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1876. Fine. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty, 1876. 30 p. + rear cover. 32 cm. Tied with string. North America. No. 6 (1876). Includes Table of Contents. Correspondence by Sir Edward Thornton, Viscount Enfield, Lord Tenterden, the Earl of Dufferin, Hamilton Fish, Earl of Carnarvon, etc.
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NZ$68.09
Suwannee River: Strange Green Land
by Cecile Hulse Matschat
William Hodge, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
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NZ$11.90
Address of Hon. J. Hampton Moore, President of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, Seventeenth Annual Convention, Newark, New Jersey, September 16-19, 1924
by MOORE, Hon. J. Hampton
1924. Staplebound. ex library-good. 10 p. 23 cm. Staplebound booklet. Ex library with ink notation and stamp on front cover, another ink notation on p. 6. Former owner's label on first page. Tears in spine ends.
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NZ$34.04
Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. to the Stockholders, for the Year 1890
by Nathan Lane's Sons
New York: Nathan Lane's Sons, 1891. Booklet. Fair. [11 p.]. 27 cm. Staplebound booklet. Ex library with ink notations and stamps. Vertical crease. Former owner's label on first page and small mark at top.
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NZ$59.58
The Right Hon. R. J. Seddon's (the Premier of New Zealand) visit to Tonga, Fiji, Savage Islands and the Cook Islands
by Seddon, R. J
Wellington, N.Z.: John Mackay, Government Printer, 1900. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 445; folding map printed in colors; numerous full-p. illustrations from photographs; spine slightly discolored, but generally a very good, sound copy in original red cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine and upper cover. An account of the visits made by the Prime Minister of New Zealand to various islands in the South Pacific during his convalescence. Eight appendices record various proclamations and addresses both...
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NZ$293.63
Isthmian Canal Policy Questions: Canal Zone-Panama Canal Sovereignty; Panama Canal Modernization, New Canal
by FLOOD, Daniel J
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex library-very good. 85th Congress, 2d Session. House Document No. 474. 523, xiv p. 24 cm. Beige cloth hardcover. Corners slightly bumped. "Panama" pencilled on spine. Library stamps to front free endpaper. Owner's label on title.
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NZ$85.11
History and general views of the Sandwich Islands' mission
by Dibble, Sheldon, Rev
New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1839. First edition, 12mo, pp. 268; orig. brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends a little cracked and bare spots neatly inpainted; modest foxing; old library label removed from spine; old manuscript ex-libris on blank flyleaf reading "No. 159 David Whitcombs Apprentice Library, Templeton, 1848; a good, sound copy. Forbes 1141: "The text contains two parts. The first two chapters are on the early history of the Islands up to the visit of Captain Cook. Chapter III,...
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NZ$1,272.39
Two scrapbooks documenting the life of Ululani Franklin Lemon
Honolulu. Two folio albums, 16½" x 14½" and 14½" x 12¼", about 200 pp. total, containing ephemera, news clippings, and photographs. Ululani Franklin Lemon - "Uncle Nani" - was born in Honolulu in 1881 to a naturalized Canadian father and a Hawaiian mother. He lived his entire life in Honolulu and died there in 1950. In 1902 he graduated Kamehameha School for Boys as a scholarship student. He had flourished during his school years, establishing himself as a star athlete in gymnastics, track and field...
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NZ$6,851.36
Exploring the deep Pacific
by RAITT, HELEN
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1956. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 272; endpaper maps, illustrations in the text, 16 photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates; a fine copy in the dust jacket. "A woman's story of her adventures in the man's world of an oceanographic expedition" (cover).
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NZ$58.73
Alexander Baranov & a Pacific empire
by Engstrom, Elton, & Allan Engstrom
Juneau, AK: the authors, 2004. First edition, 4to, pp. xvi, 227, [4]; illus. throughout (some in color); fine copy in the dust-jacket. This copy signed by both authors on the half-title-p. Baranov was Chief Manager of the Russian American Company from 1790 to 1818 and was known to Americans as the "Governor of Alaska," during Alaska's earliest era of exploration and commercial development.
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NZ$88.09
A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third, and last voyages, undertaken by order of His present Majesty, for making discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c. in the southern and northern hemispheres ... To which will be added, genuine narratives of other voyages of discovery round the world, &c. undertaken, performed, and written by English circum-navigators
by Cook, James, Capt., & George William Anderson
London: Alex. Hogg, 1784. First collected edition of Cook's three voyages, folio, 2 volumes in 1; pp. iv, [4] list of subscribers, [5]-398; [399]-655, [1]; complete with the engraved frontispiece portrait of Cook, and with the full complement of 155 engraved plates an charts, but without the large folding world map; clean tear in D2 (no loss; one plate with tear at the top causing partial loss to the imprint and border, a half dozen or so other plates torn, with old repairs on versos and no loss;...
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NZ$7,830.12
A Picture-Journey Along the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal 1826-1857
by HOFFMANN, Philip J.; SHANK, William H. (ed.)
York, PA: The American Canal and Transportation Center, 1993. Softcover. Near fine. 80 p. 22 x 28 cm. Colour illustrations. Former owner's label on title.
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NZ$17.02
Grammar and vocabulary of the Lau language, Solomon Islands
by Ivens, Walter G
Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1921. 12mo, pp. 64; frontispiece and 2 plates, ex-Iowa State, with their bookplate marked withdrawn, withdrawn rubberstamp on title-p., preface, 1 plate, and 1 internal page; all else good and sound in later green cloth, gilt lettering on spine.
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NZ$58.73
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SUWANNEE RIVER - STRANGE GREEN LAND [RIVERS OF AMERICA SERIES]
by Cecile Hulse Matchat, illustrated by Alexander Key, Essay by Constance Lindsay Skinner
New York: The Literary Guild of America Inc., 1938. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. x, 296 pages followed by an unpaginated 10 page essay by series editor Constance Lindsay Skinner "Rivers and American Folk". This is the 1st (and only) printing by the literary Guild, publihed on the same day (August 1, 1938) as the Farrar & Rinehart 1st printing. Green cloth. Farrar & Rinehart 'FR' device does not appear on copyright page. Condition of the book is Very Good; exterior...
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NZ$34.04
Perspectives in Running Water Ecology
by Lock, Maurice A.; Dudley Williams, D. (eds.)
New York and London: Plenum Press, 1981. Hardcover. Good condition. Ex-Library. Library labels on spine foot of dust jacket and on FEP. Library stamps on page block, FEP, title page and at one or two further points. Dust jacket is protected with a clear plastic wrapper. Jacket and wrapper are considerably worn and upper leading corner of rear wrapper is torn. One or two instances of penned and pencilled underlining. Binding is sound, and the contents are clear. AF. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Ex-Library.
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NZ$30.35
The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal
by BUCHANAN, C. A
Ashcott, Bridgwater, Somerset: Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society, 1984. Stamped cloth. Near fine. SIAS Survey Number One. 28 p. 21 cm. B&w photos and maps. Staplebound booklet. Former owner's label on title page.
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NZ$25.53
Know your Lakers of World War I
by Dowling, Edward J. Rev
Marine Pub, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. : 1978 : vii, 120 p. ill. b/w, col. including a painting of Otto Fischer. Shipyards of the Great Lakes contributing to war effort by building ships for ocean service. Very good minus, some creasing of back cover and minor wear on spine. An important record of the Great Lakes ship builders.
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NZ$49.86
Leontyne - by barge from London to Vienna
by Goodwin, Richard
Collins 1st 1989 . 8vo VG++/VG++ 610 gms.
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NZ$21.30
The Canals of South and South East England
by Hadfield Charles
Newton Abbot, Great Britain: David & Charles, 1969. First Thus . Buckram. Very Good++/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition thus. 8vo. 393 pages including detailed index. This is one The Canals of the British Isles series. Very well illustrated throughout with endless good black and white photographic plates, text illustrations and maps. In original rich blue buckram gilt hard cover binding. Very Good++ in Very Good+ pleasing pictorial green price-clipped dust...
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NZ$34.07
Official Program and Complete History: Ohio River Pageant and Dedication October 19th-25th 1929: Commemorating the completion of the Ohio River canalization of Pittsburgh to Cairo
by DEISLER, Geo. F. (comp.)
1929. Card covers. Very good +. 104 p. 28 cm. Over 60 b&w illustrations. Brown card covers with black, blue, and gold lettering. Inscription at top front left corner and ink stamp top right. Chipped spine tail and small nick from bottom front corner. Small chip to top of rear cover. Hole and tear in tissue guard over title page. Former owner's label, date stamp, blind stamp, and brown mark on title page. Otherwise very clean and bright inside. Front cover reads: "Official Program and History: The Ohio...
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NZ$85.11
Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals
by William Ratigan
Copyright 1960. Hardbound. Dust jacket shows moderate wear along edges, ends and spine. A 2 3/4 & a 3 cm tear, repaired, along the bottom right border. Black boards are in good shape. Spines are bumped, but not much wear. No signs of previous ownership. No writing or underlining. Pages are clean, not torn and the corners are not bent. Spine is tight. Nonsmoking. Proceeds from the sale benefit our local library.
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NZ$27.24
Information in Relation to Proceedings which have been Taken in the Judicial Courts to Restrain the Digging of a Canal Across Minnesota Point, near Du Luth, in the State of Minnesota
by ANONYMOUS
Washington, 1872. 42d Congress, 2d session. Senate. Ex. doc., no. 76. Hardcover. Very Good. 59 p. 24 cm. Bound in quarter red cloth with blue marbled boards. Owner's label on a front endpaper.
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NZ$85.11
The Allegheny
by Way, Frederick, Jr
Farrar and Rinehart, 1942. 1st. Hardcover. A VG+ tight copy with a VG to VG+ litely edgeworn dj. Rivers of America Series.
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NZ$110.64
