Forty-niners from Australia and New Zealand. Pp. 172, folding endpaper panorama, 16 plates, references, appendices, index; med. 8vo; uncut; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle marked; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Ure Smith, Sydney, 1963. First edition. More
to Convey the Conveniencies of Life, Domestic Animals, Corn, Iron, &c., to New Zealand, with Dr. Benjamin Franklin's Sentiments upon the Subject. London, Aug. 29th, 1771. Pp. 16(last colophon, blank), publisher's device on title page; f'cap. 8vo; blue buckram with printed paper title label on upper board; glassine wrapper, edges... More
Translated by F. W. Reed. Pp. 54(last blank); demy 8vo; red buckram, flecked, printed paper titling labels on spine and upper board; dust wrapper; top edge stained red, others uncut; free endpapers offset; Caxton Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1949. One of 150 copies in full buckram, printed on handmade paper... More
Pp. 32; later brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the cloth a trifle flecked; original printed paper wrappers bound in, upper wrapper decorated in gilt, a trifle soiled; Rolle & Pollock, Wellington, 1948. Edition limited to 250 copies. *Signed by the compiler at foot of Foreword. More
The Forsters and New Zealand science. First Cook Lecture 1975. Pp. [vi]+16; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1975. *Text of a lecture on Johann Reinhold Forster and his son, delivered at a meeting of the Wellington Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand, in July 1975. More
Pp. 124+180+184+310(last blank)+174(last blank), numerous text figures, glossary, bibliography, index; demy 4to; Parts I-IV glazed pictorial card (Part I with black cloth tape spine), occasionally slightly soiled, Part V pictorial paper wrappers;Otago Museum Trust Board, Dunedin, 1968-1979. Part I second printing; others first editions. Otago Museum Bulletin Numbers 1-5... More
New Zealand's worst sea disaster. Pp. xvi+158(last blank), full page illustrations and map, appendices; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; inked ownership inscription at head of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves a trifle marked; Cassell New Zealand, [Auckland], 1975. *Originally published in 1968 as New Zealand's worst sea disaster: the wreck... More
. A list for libraries, students and collectors. Pp. iv+8; printed textured paper wrappers, stapled, slightly soiled, edges lightly creased, small hole in lower wrapper below top edge; a little faint soiling and creasing; The Beltane Book Bureau, Wellington, n.d.[c. 1948]. Edition limited to 500 copies. N.Z. Collectors' Monographs No. 2. More
Foreword by I. McL. Wards. Pp. xii+114, frontispiece, plus 8 plates, coloured folding map at end, bibliography, index; boards a trifle foxed; dust wrapper, lightly foxed and soiled, edges slightly rubbed, the backstrip faded; a little light foxing; Government Printer, Wellington, 1972. First edition. *Published for the Historical Publications Branch... More
relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Pp. xxiv+698(last blank), index; roy. 8vo; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown;The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1972. First U.S. edition. *Includes references to whalers and whaling. More
Pp. [xii]+170(last blank), frontispiece, plus 3 plates, errata slip mounted on p. 59 (partly obscuring text); gilt lettered red cloth, the lower board lightly flecked, spine slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle soiled and faded, edges chipped and split, with one tape repair on reverse; free endpapers faintly offset... More
Films and people in New Zealand. Pp. [ii]+242, 16 plates, index; fore-corner of boards lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, soiled and worn, the edges rubbed and chipped; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, both pastedowns offset, ownership inscription on upper free endpaper, a little light foxing; Paul's Book Arcade, Hamilton, 1945. More
signed (on behalf of Queen Victoria) by the New Zealand Governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, appointing James Lindsay to be a Sub-Lieutenant in the Howick Troop, Royal Cavalry, countersigned (November 7th 1872), by Wm. Hall, with the seal of the Colony affixed, registered in the Office of the Inspector of... More
A History of Hamilton, New Zealand, 1875-1894. Pp. x+246, 8 plates, free endpaper map printed in red, a few text figures, index; corners of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; text block faintly browned, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Paul's Book Arcade,Auckland... More
Pp. 280+8(publisher's advertisements), frontispiece, 22 plates, 2 text maps; boards soiled, worn at extremities; ownership inscription on upper free endpaper, some scattered foxing and soiling throughout; Stanley Paul, London, 1936. More
Or, life on the Goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales & New Zealand. By a Bank Official. Pp. xii+180(last colophon), full page facsimile, tailpiece decorations; purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards with blind rule borders, worn and lightly soiled, with a couple of small damp stains to lower board... More
Or, an historical account of the principal islands in the South Sea, including New Zealand; the introduction of Christianity; and the actual condition of the inhabitants in regard to civilisation, commerce, and the arts of social life. With a map and vignette. Pp. 440, folding frontispiece map, pictorial half-title page... More
A Foreword by Dr. R. A. Falla. Pp. xviii+86(last colophon), frontispiece, plus 16 plates, 2 maps; boards a trifle soiled, the cloth slightly bubbled along bottom edge of upper board, bottom fore-corners faintly bruised; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, the back panel slightly creased; faint signs of removal of... More
Reprinted from "The Commonwealth Engineer," December, 1938 and January, 1939.[cover title]. Pp. 20(last blank), text illustrations, 9 plans (3 full page); post 4to; printed paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle soiled (staples rusting) and creased, edges slightly rubbed; light foxing throughout; Tait Publishing, Melbourne & Sydney, n.d.[c.194-]. More
Pp. xii+162(last blank), addenda, index; med. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, title page slightly soiled, a little light foxing; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972. First edition thus. *A revised and updated version of the New Zealand and Maori section of the author's... More
Pp. [32], illustrations and figures; small cr. 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers, lightly soiled; Department of Zoology, Victoria University, Wellington, 1968. More
Wright Stephenson & Co. Limited, 1861-1961. Pp. 296, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, appendix, index; cr. 4to; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges split; Wright Stephenson & Co., Wellington, 1961. *History of the New Zealand agricultural company. More