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The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1957
Super 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: R.E. Owen, Government Printer 1957
KEYWORDS: new zealand offical year-book records census and stastics office history information demographics demogprahy population data
The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1958
Sixty-Third Issue
Super 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: R.E. Owen, Government Printer 1958
KEYWORDS: new zealand offical year-book records census and stastics office history information demographics demogprahy population data
The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1959
Sixty-Fourth Issue
Super 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: R.E. Owen, Government Printer 1959
KEYWORDS: new zealand offical year-book records census and stastics office history information demographics demogprahy population data
The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1961
66th Issue
Super 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: R.E. Owen, Government Printer 1961
KEYWORDS: new zealand offical year-book records census and stastics office history information demographics demogprahy population data
The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1962
67th Issue
Super 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: R.E. Owen, Government Printer 1962
KEYWORDS: new zealand offical year-book records census and stastics office history information demographics demogprahy population data
New Zealand; Containing the Dioceses of Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Nelson, Waiapu, Wellington and Melanesia
FRONTISPIECE LOOSE, sm octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & black rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, xvi + 480pp + appendix to rear, folding map of NZ to prelims, VG (light chafing with sl surface loss & bruising to extrems & spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, frontispiece detached but present, moderate cracking to gutters, occasional pencil annotation, light foxing to folding map & occasional pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge 1887
KEYWORDS: New Zealand religion Christianity diocese history religious
Art and Architecture in France: 1500 to 1700
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering & title plate to spine, publisher's gilt motif to front board, xvii + 312pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to board corners, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate to heavy tanning to spine, light foxing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1953
KEYWORDS: first editions art architecture history France French
The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China
Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 489pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl soiling to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Basic Books 2007
KEYWORDS: China Chinese military science history deception warfare combat art theories formulations
Octavius Harwood: Titopu, Piro, Janet Robertson
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, vi + 84pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing, soiling & curling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, gift inscription in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Mac Harwood 1989
KEYWORDS: Octavius Harwood family history Dunedin New Zealand genealogy Philip Laing settlers pioneers
The Theory of Proportion in Architecture
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, xi + 156pp, illus, VG+ (v sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG (front flap clumsily clipped, light creasing to edges, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1958
KEYWORDS: first editions architecture theory proportion buildings history historical philosophy renaissance P H Scholfield
The Book of the Dead: The Heiroglyphic Transcript and Translation into English of the Ancient Egyptian Papyrus of Ani
Super octavo, light brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, xiv + 704pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & rear eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Gramercy Books 1999
KEYWORDS: ancient history histprical texts papyrus Egypt Egyptian Egyptians book of the dead heiroglyphs heiroglyphics language translations incantations
New Zealand's Naval Story: Naval Policy and Practice, Naval Occasions, Visiting Warships
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 337pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to board & spine edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some sl loss to edges, moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to rear cover & flap)
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1948
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand military history maritime navy naval defence forces
Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath
FIRST EDITION, HEAVY- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 671pp, illus, Nr. FINE in d/w VG+ (light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2014
KEYWORDS: first editions exploration biographies memoirs explorers Dumont d'Urville France French history
Proof: Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand: Two Decades of Printmaking
Square super octavo, grey cloth boards, copper gilt lettering to black spine, black & copper gilt lettering to front board, marbled eps, 211pp, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Massey University Press 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art printing printmaking history
Minotaure: 65 Articles Importants Signes (Vol 3 - Nos. 9-13)
TEXT IN FRENCH, THIS VOL ONLY, lg quarto, maroon buckram boards, black lettering to spine, blind stamp bull motif to front board, mixed pagination, illus, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to board edges, sl soiling to boards, minor occasional foxing to some pages) in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & creasing to edges, moderate tanning & soiling, light to moderate chipping/closed tearing with minor archival tape repairs)
PUBLISHER: Editions Albert Skira / Rizzoli 1981
KEYWORDS: text in French Minotaure articles writings prose art history surrealist surrealism avant garde ethnography 1936 1939
Rails Through the Bush
Oblong super octavo, illus stapled light card covers, green lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (moderate scuffing to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to covers, moderate tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: Southern Press 1973
KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport trains rail travel steam locomotives history
Kett's Rebellion: The Norfolk Rising of 1549
Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 165pp, includes ex library pamphlet, VG+ (light scuffing & discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, moderate tanning)
PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 1977
KEYWORDS: Robert Kett rebellion Norfolk English England history
To Katanga and Back: A UN Case History
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1962
KEYWORDS: politics political conflict Africa UN history
Shotover Jet: The Story of Queenstown's Adventure Tourism Pioneer
Imperial 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Shotover Jet Ltd 2016
KEYWORDS: New Zealand tourism Queenstown shotover jet autobiography history
Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos
Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Flamingo / HarperCollins 2003
KEYWORDS: Laos history politics government travel literature