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Beyond the Skippers Road
SCRUFFY COPY, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); 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 costs
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed
KEYWORDS: New Zealand regional history Shotover Otago Lakes District Skippers rural
Past and Present, and Men of the Times
LACKS FEP & TITLE PAGE, octavo hardcover (VG-) heavy cracking to spine; 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 costs
PUBLISHER: McKee & Co 1897
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers settlers Australia William Jackson Barry
Conquerors of the Antarctic
EX-LIBRARY, 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller 1958
KEYWORDS: Antarctic exploration travel history maritime nautical south pole
Adventures of Exploration: Book V: Australia and New Zealand (Second Edition)
Sm 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: George Philip & Son 1929
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Australia history exploration
The Rugby Almanack of New Zealand: 1978 Edition: Records - Reviews Covering the First-Class Matches of 1977
Sm 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Sporting Publications 1978
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport history almanack 1977 rugby union
The Rugby Almanack of New Zealand: 1974 Edition: Records - Reviews Covering the First-Class Matches of 1973
Sm 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Sporting Publications 1974
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport history almanack 1973 rugby union
A Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: exploration Arctic north pole travel maritime nautical history
My Grandmother's Kitchen: A Collection of Recipes Seasoned With Memories and Tales of the Past
Spiral bound 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Balclutha Genealogical Society 2006
KEYWORDS: family recipes food anecdotes genealogy Balclutha history
Road to Routeburn: The Story of Kinloch, Lake Wakatipu
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 costs
PUBLISHER: John McIndoe 1979
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Otago lakes district Wakatipu
Silver Fern at Tokyo: Stories of New Zealanders at the Games of the 18th Olympiad; and New Zealand Athletics Almanack, 1964
Octavo stapled light card wrappers (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 costs
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed N/D (c.1964)
KEYWORDS: sport New Zealand olympics olympic games Tokyo 1964 Japan history athletics
Stories of the Hyde Railway Disaster 1943
Octavo stapled light card wrappers (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 costs
PUBLISHER: E. E. Coleman 2008
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hyde railway disaster rail transport trains history Southland 1943 anecdotes crashes
The Life of Nansen
LACKS D/W, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Religious Tract Society N/D
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Fridtjof Nansen exploration explorers adventure adventurers history
Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the Adjoining Countries
Octavo, beige buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, brown lettering to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, folding map to front, xv + 528pp + 24pp ads to rear, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy chipping & bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & staining to spine & boards, 3cm crack to front hinge, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light to moderate foxing to prelims, light foxing to pages throughout, light cracking to some gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co. 1894
KEYWORDS: travel exploration history culture Kashmir west Tibet Gilgit E F Knight
The Maoris in the Great War: A History of the New Zealand Native Contingent and Pioneer Battalion: Gallipoli, 1915; France and Flanders, 1916-1918
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN D/W (TIDY ARCHIVAL TAPE REPAIRS), octavo, brown heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xii + 180pp, illus/photos, folding maps, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, light creasing/folding to edges of folding map to rear, light tanning & foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges- neat & tidy archival tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate discolouration)
PUBLISHER: Maori Regimental Committee 1926
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori great war military history ww1 first 1st world war one 1 Te Hokowhitu a Tu Gallipoli pioneer battalion France Flanders first edition
The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions
TWO FOLDING MAPS IN REAR POCKET, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule to front board, frontispiece, xxxi + 784pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, moderate tape staining to front & rear eps, some bruising & creasing to page edges, light tanning & creasing to one folding map at rear, closed tears to one map)
PUBLISHER: George G. Harrap & Co. N/D (c.1921?)
KEYWORDS: exploration polar regions history arctic north pole travel eskimos
The Class Reptilia
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, marbled half green leather bound boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards, red speckled page edges, marbled eps, frontispiece, 481pp + 110pp synopsis of species to rear, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to boards & board edges, light discolouration to spine, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutters near front, sl cracking to other gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: Whittaker, Treacher and Co. 1831
KEYWORDS: natural history reptiles Baron Cuvier animals classification
The Class Pisces
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, marbled half green leather bound boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards, red speckled page edges, marbled eps, frontispiece, viii + 680pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to boards & edges, light scuffing & surface loss to spine, moderate tanning to page egdes, light tape staining to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, light tanning & foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Whittaker and Co. 1934
KEYWORDS: animals fish aquatic natural history Baron Cuvier classifications
The Mollusca and Radiata
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, marbled half green leather bound boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards, red speckled page edges, marbled eps, frontispiece, viii + 601pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to boards & edges, light discolouration & crackling to spine, moderate tanning to page edges, light tanning & foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Whittaker and Co. 1934
KEYWORDS: animals natural history Baron Cuvier classifications molluscs sea life marine biology shells shell identification
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 1883 Vol. XVI
Super octavo, pink heavy boards, black lettering to title plate to spine, 577pp + lxii, illus, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to board edges & extrems, moderate creasing & tanning to spine, moderate soiling to boards with prev. owner's name in ink to front board, moderate cracking to gutters, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, pgs 371-382 loose but still attached, some pages remain uncut)
PUBLISHER: Lyon & Blair 1884
KEYWORDS: New Zealand transactions proceedings records history 1883 animals nature crustaceans insects entomology
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island
LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#79/1000), FULL LEATHERBOUND, ARCHIVAL TAPE REPAIRS TO D/W, quarto, brown full leather boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, teg, frontispiece, 298pp + lxxiv appendix to rear, illus & folding maps, VG (light bruising/warping to board corners, light to moderate soiling to boards, light tanning, foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, explanatory note by Norman B.Tindale tipped in to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with loss & neat/tidy archival tape repairs, moderate tanning & soiling to spine & covers)
PUBLISHER: Georgian House Pty 1950
KEYWORDS: Governor Phillip Botany Bay exploration travel adventures history ethnography Australia Australian