Pp. 160, 8 plates (including frontispiece portrait of Cook and a folding chart at end), appendix, note on sources, index; tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt; top edges green; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges rubbed and chipped, closed tears to backstrip extremities; small inked inscription near top fore-corner..... 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
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
The tempestuous voyage of J. A. Froude, 1884 & 1885. Travellers' Tales of Early Australia & New Zealand. Edited by Geoffrey Blainey. Pp. xx+212(last blank), frontispiece, full page illustrations; dust wrapper; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Methuen Haynes, Sydney, 1985. Abridged edition. *Originally published as Oceana, or England and her..... 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..... 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
Compiled and edited by Robert McNab. In two volumes. Pp. xvi+780(last blank)+xxii+650, patterned endpapers, indices; brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, boards with triple blind rule borders, slightly rubbed, with light circular damp mark to lower board Volume I, fore-corners bruised; inked gift inscription (dated 1920) on upper free endpaper..... More
Pp. 192, frontispiece portrait; bottom fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on flaps and reverse, edges lightly rubbed and split, small chip to top edge of front panel, the backstrip and top edge of front panel faded; edges of leaves lightly foxed; A. H. & A. W...... 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..... 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
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
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
Complete in four volumes, comprising: Volume I: The New Zealanders at Gallipoli, by Major Fred Waite. With an introduction to the series by Sir James Allen and prefaces by Generals Sir Ian Hamilton and Sir William Birdwood. Pp. xx+332(last blank, colophon), numerous text illustrations and maps, multi-folding coloured map at..... 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