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$25.00
xxhjb186028

The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1957


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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

$25.00
xxhjb186029

The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1958


Sixty-Third Issue

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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

$25.00
xxhjb186030

The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1959


Sixty-Fourth Issue

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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

$15.00
xxhkaa186039

The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1961


66th Issue

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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

$15.00
xxhkaa186040

The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1962


67th Issue

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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

$40.00
2i7a/8

New Zealand; Containing the Dioceses of Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Nelson, Waiapu, Wellington and Melanesia


JACOBS, The Very Rev. HENRY

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

$40.00
2i7a/14

Art and Architecture in France: 1500 to 1700


BLUNT, ANTHONY

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

$42.50
2i7a/15

The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China


SAWYER, RALPH D. & LEE SAWYER, MEI-CHUN (Collaboration)

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

$45.00
2i7a/17

Octavius Harwood: Titopu, Piro, Janet Robertson


HARWOOD, MAC

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

$75.00
2i7a/20

The Theory of Proportion in Architecture


SCHOLFIELD, P. H.

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

$40.00
2i7a/24

The Book of the Dead: The Heiroglyphic Transcript and Translation into English of the Ancient Egyptian Papyrus of Ani


BUDGE, E. A. WALLIS (Intro & Commentary)

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

$40.00
2i7a/25

New Zealand's Naval Story: Naval Policy and Practice, Naval Occasions, Visiting Warships


TAYLOR, T. D.

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

$70.00
2i7a/26

Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath


DUYKER, EDWARD

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

$60.00
2i7a/28

Proof: Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand: Two Decades of Printmaking


CUNNINGHAM, ELDON (E. C.) (Fore) [PRINT COUNCIL AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND]

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

$245.00
2i7a/34

Minotaure: 65 Articles Importants Signes (Vol 3 - Nos. 9-13)


AUDIBERTI & BRETON, ANDRE et al

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

$40.00
2i9a/11

Rails Through the Bush


STOTT, BOB

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

$45.00
2i9a/15

Kett's Rebellion: The Norfolk Rising of 1549


LAND, STEPHEN K.

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

$25.00
xxhkg186044

To Katanga and Back: A UN Case History


O'BRIEN, CONOR CRUISE

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

$20.00
xxhkg186056

Shotover Jet: The Story of Queenstown's Adventure Tourism Pioneer


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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

$15.00
XXhLb186060

Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos


KREMMER, CHRISTOPHER

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

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