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Wise's New Zealand Index 1939
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & boards, printed front eps, 516pp, VG (moderate chipping & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, heavy cracking to front gutters- front board shaky, moderate tanning to prelims)
PUBLISHER: H. Wise & Co 1939
KEYWORDS: New Zealand index suburbs townships Wise 1939 history
New Zealand, its Advantages and Prospects, as a British Colony; with a Full Account of the Land Claims, Sales of Crown Lands, Aborigines, etc, etc
LACKS MAP, PAGES LOOSE, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & decoration to boards, xi + 366pp, scruffy (heavy chipping & scuffing to spine & extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, light soiling to boards, heavy cracking to front hinge, moderate tanning to page edges, light soiling to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, heavy cracking to gutters throuhghout- pages loose- uncounted presumed still all present, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: T. & W. Boone 1842
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history land claims British colonial colonisation colonization crown lands
The History and Antiquities of Boston, and the Villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake and Wrangle; Comprising the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of Lincoln
FRONT BOARD DETACHED, super octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece, xxii + 824pp, illus, scruffy (front board completely detached, heavy cracking to rear hinge- board v shaky & delicate, heavy scuffing & chipping to extrems, moderate scuffing & soiling to spine & boards, heavy tanning to page edges, heavy chipping & creasing to some page edges, light soiling & foxing to eps, bookbinder's sm label to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Longman & Co / John Noble, Jun. 1856
KEYWORDS: Boston Lincoln county history antiquity villages
Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Royal Engineers Insititute Occasional Papers Vol XXIX 1903
Super octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind stamp decoration to spine, gilt initials & blind rule to front board, 251pp, folding maps & photos- not counted presumed all present, VG- (light to mdoerate bruising to extrems, heavy soiling/staining to front board edges, heavy tanning & light foxing to page edges, sl soiling to eps, moderate foxing to some pages/maps throughout, moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to some folding maps)
PUBLISHER: Royal Engineers Institute 1904
KEYWORDS: military history royal engineers corps professional papers institute occasional astrographic charts methods engineering
Justice For Austria! Red-White-Red-Book: Descriptions, Documents and Proofs to the Antecedents and History of the Occupation of Austria (From Official Sources) First Part
Quarto, red & white light card covers, black & red lettering to front cover, 232pp, VG- (moderate chafing & surface loss with creasing to spine & covers, moderate tanning & foxing to spine & covers with light chafing & soiling, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, v heavy cracking & separation to gutters- binding loose)
PUBLISHER: Austrian State Printing House 1947
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii Austria nazi occupation documents German Germany
An Account of New Zealand; and of the Formation and Progress of The Church Missionary Society's Mission in the Northern Island
FIRST EDITION, LACKS MAP, RECASED WITH NEW EPS, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, maps to prelims, 310pp + index to rear, illus, VG (sl bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims, light foxing to pgs throughout, frontis partially loose)
PUBLISHER: Seeley and Burnside 1835
KEYWORDS: New Zealand religious history religion missionaries Christianity north island
The Romance of a Pro-Consul; Being the Personal Life and Memoirs of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B.
LOSS OF BOTTOM THIRD OF SPINE, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, ix + 214pp + 32pp catalogue to rear, VG- (spine partially missing, moderate scuffing & fraying to extrems, light tanning to spine, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, ffep missing, prev. owner's name in pencil to half title page, red staining to lower page edges at rear, moderate tanning to catalogue, sl foxing to prelims, sl cracking & soiling to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1899
KEYWORDS: Sir George Grey Australia New Zealand history pioneers settlers autobiography memoir
Memorials of Sergeant William Marjouram; Including Six Years' Service in New Zealand, During the Late Maori War
FIRST EDITION, REAR BOARD DETACHED, sm octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt military insignia to front board, blind stamp rule to boards, frontispiece, xx + 382pp + 8pp catalogue to rear, VG- (rear board detached, moderate chipping & bruising to extrems, light tanning to spine, light staining to boards, moderate cracking to spine, heavy tanning to page edges, light soiling to eps, binder's sm label to rear pastedown, heavy cracking to gutters, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: James Nisbet & Co 1862
KEYWORDS: first editions Sergeant William Marjouram New Zealand military history Maori War wars autobiography memoir
Dear Old England: A Description of Our Fatherland
Octavo, textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind decoration to boards, frontispiece, viii + 436pp, illus, VG- (heavy cracking & chipping to spine & extrems, light bruising & scuffing to board extrems, heavy discolouration to spine & boards, heavy tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps, ffep potentially missing, light to moderate chipping to edges of frontispiece, moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday 1861
KEYWORDS: English history England British counties
Province of Auckland, New Zealand: Acts & Procedures of the Auckland Provincial Council Session 1, 1853-4, With the Printed Council Papers Appended
Lg quarto, blue light card covers, blue cloth spine, black lettering to front cover, mixed pagination, folding charts, scruffy (heavy creasing & chipping/scuffing to spine & covers with considerable loss to cover edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front cover, moderate soiling to covers, moderate tanning to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, string binding very sloppy & loose)
PUBLISHER: W. C. Wilson, Gov't Printer 1858
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland proceedings procedures council sessions papers history 19th nineteenth century
Wise's New Zealand Index: 9th Edition
Sm octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine & boards, printed eps, frontispiece, 536pp, folding map to rear, illus/photos, VG- (minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light fading & soiling to spine, light soiling & doscolouration to boards, heavy tanning & lg ink stamps to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing throughout, some light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: H. Wise & Co 1945
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Wise index place names suburbs history
The Illustrated Australian Encyclopaedia (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, imperial octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spines, blind stamp rule to front boards, frontispiece with tisue guard to vol 2 only, vol 1- ix + 768pp, vol 2- 748pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing to boards, minor wrinkling to rear board of vol 1, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to front gutter of vol 1- frontis & tissue guard potentially missing)
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1925-26
KEYWORDS: ecyclopedias encyclopaedias Australia Australian history culture
The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1898 (Seventh Year of Issue)
Octavo, blue half leather bound buckram boards, gilt lettering to title plate with gilt rule to spine, red speckled page edges, vi + 684pp, folding charts to rear, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate bruising to board edges, light tanning & staining to page edges, light tanning to edges of eps, prev. ownership ink stamp to rear pastedown, pencil ownership markings to prelims, occasional page to terminals potentially removed, 1cm closed tear to folding chart to rear)
PUBLISHER: John Mackay, Gov't Printer 1898
KEYWORDS: New Zealand year books yearbooks past issues history statistics articles
The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1909 (Eighteenth Year of Issue)
Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine & front board, patterned eps, iv + 890pp, colour map of north & south islands, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate crease to ffep & pg 889/890, occasional sm library ink stamp- no other library markings detected,
PUBLISHER: John Mackay, Gov't Printer 1909
KEYWORDS: New Zealand year books yearbooks past issues history statistics articles
The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1901 (Tenth Year of Issue)
Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, vi + 640pp, folding charts to rear, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, moderate warping to front board, light to moderate soiling & chafing to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. ownership sm ink stamps to title page & rear pastedown, sl cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: John Mackay, Gov't Printer 1901
KEYWORDS: New Zealand year books yearbooks past issues history statistics articles
The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1903 (Twelfth Year of Issue)
Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, vi + 755pp, folding chart to rear, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, prev. ownership ink stamp to rear pastedown)
PUBLISHER: John Mackay, Gov't Printer 1903
KEYWORDS: New Zealand year books yearbooks past issues history statistics articles
Log-Letters From The Challenger (Fourth Edition, Revised)
EX-LIBRARY- REBACKED, FOURTH EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, white handwritten lettering to spine, folding map frotnispiece, 512pp + 36pp catalogue to rear, VG (usual library markings, light scuffing to extrems, light chafing to spine & boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps & prelims/terminals, occasional foxing to prelims & terminalslight cracking to rear gutters)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1877
KEYWORDS: exploration The Challenger maritime nautical history logs letters correspondence travel
Watch the Down Wind: The Story of Flight Lieutenant Rod Hoffman, of Bomber Command, from Invercargill, New Zealand and Nettie Adams, ex-British Land Army of Seagrave, Leicestershire, England
SIGNED, octavo, illus glossy light card covers, brown & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 264pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink & relative ephemera stapled to inside front cover, sl cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: Jeanette Hoffman-Jukes (nee Adams) 1997
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history autobiograpical memoirs Rod Hoffman Nettie Adams biographies signed
Marsigli's Europe 1680-1730- The Life and Times of Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, Soldier and Virtuoso
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 356pp, illus, VG+ (sl brusiing to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli Europe European science scientists military history warfare politics
Fields of Gold: A History of the Dominican Sisters in Western Australia
Oblong super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, yellow & white lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xxi + 376pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing & curling to spine & covers, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Dominican Sisters of Western Australia 1999
KEYWORDS: West Australia Australian catholic schools education religious religion history Dominican sisters