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$14.00
1i48/9

The Hoihi: New Zealand's Yellow-Eyed Penguin


VERNON, ADELE & SCHNEIDER, DEAN (photos)

square imperial octavo, illus heavy card boards, frontispiece, v + 44pp, illus, near fine in VG+ d/w (light wear and rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1991

KEYWORDS: new zealand natural history yellow-eyed penguin hoiho ornithology adele vernon dean schneider

$60.00
1i48/35

National Resources Survey Part VI: Hawke's Bay Region


Compiled by the Town and Country Planning Branch

MINISTRY OF WORKS

Quarto, green illustrated heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, frontispiece, vii + 233pp +7 large folding colour maps in rear pocket, illustrated, VG+ (owner's name in ink to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: AR Shearer, Government Printer 1971

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hawke's Bay Min of Works history reference climate geology government transport population industry forestry agriculture

$17.50
1i48/46

Fiji and the Fijians: Volume 1 The Islands and their Inhabitants


WILLIAMS, THOMAS

This volume only, octavo, illustrated light card covers with black lettering to spine, ix pp intro to reprint edition, frontispiece, xi + folding map + 266pp, illus, VG+ (price label to rear cover, slight soiling to rear spine)

PUBLISHER: Fiji Museum 1982 reprint

KEYWORDS: Thomas Williams Fiji islands history people anthropology pre-christianity culture agriculture customs religion

$17.50
1i48/47

Fiji and the Fijians: Volume 2 Mission History


CALVERT, JAMES

This volume only, octavo, illustrated light card covers with black lettering to spine, v pp intro to reprint edition, frontispiece, 435pp, VG+ (price label to rear cover, foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Fiji Museum 1985 reprint

KEYWORDS: James Calvert Fiji islands history people anthropology Methodism Methodist mission christianity politics anthropology

$35.00
1i48/48

Arts in the Religions of the Pacific: Symbols of Life


MOORE, ALBERT C

First edition, signed by author, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii +219pp, illustrated, near fine (v slight foxing to upper page edges) in VG+ d/w (fading & light soiling to upper internal edge and rear upper edge)

PUBLISHER: Pinter Publishers 1995

KEYWORDS: Albert C Moore Pacific arts religion Australia Melanesia Polynesia New Zealand music dance masks carving anthropology culture history geography

$17.50
1i48/52

Oamaru Harbour: Port in a Storm


MCLEAN, GAVIN

Octavo, illustrated light card covers, 176pp, illus, VG (front gutter cracked, v slight rubbing to cover corners, slight soiling to upper page edges)

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press 1982

KEYWORDS: Gavin McLean Oamaru maritime history North Otago New Zealand port politics finance

$18.50
xxefa44309

Seeing Further: The Story of Science & The Royal Society


BRYSON, BILL (Ed)

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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Harper Press 2010

KEYWORDS: specials Bill Bryson Royal Society science history anthology Richard Dawkins Darwin Margaret Atwood Martin Rees Simon Schaffer Margaret Wertheim

$10.00
xxefa44317

The Mass


LUSTIGER, JEAN-MARIE

Paperback (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Collins Fount Paperbacks 1990

KEYWORDS: specials Jean-Marie Lustiger meditation religion theology Mass history order of mass

$35.00
xxefb44361

The Dominion of New Zealand


The All Red Series

DOUGLAS, SIR ARTHUR P

Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering, illus eps, frontispiece, folding map at rear, VG (slight splitting at 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Pitman & Sons 1909

KEYWORDS: specials Sir Arthur P Douglas New Zealand history geology Maori colonisation geography climate flora fauna government politics

$16.00
xxefb44369

New Zealand's Forests


FLEET, HARRIET

Hardcover imperial octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1984

KEYWORDS: specials Harriet Fleet New Zealand trees forests timber flora fauna history logging forestry destruction pests deer

$18.50
xxefb44377

The Local Historian's Encylopaedia


RICHARDSON, JOHN

Softcover octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Historical Publications 1981

KEYWORDS: specials John Richardson local history historical encyclopedia reference archives markets transport archaeology legislation parishes research

$54.00
1i48/22

United States Geological Survey: Cambrian Brachiopoda


Part II - Plates

WALCOTT, CHARLES D

This volume only, quarto, dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind rule to boards, 363pp, 104 full-page black & white plates, illus, VG (rubbing & bruising to spine extrems, 1cm x 3cm rubbed-through patch to lower spine, fading to spine, rubbing to board & spine edges, soil spots to rear board, front & rear gutter loose but still attached, owner's name in ink to fep, Universities of Canterbury & Heidelberg library stamps to prelims, fading to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Washington Government Printing Office 1912

KEYWORDS: Charles D Walcott George Otis Smith geology brachiopoda natural history science reference shells fossils

$100.00
1i48/25

New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1895


Prepared under instructions from the Hon RJ Seddon, Premier

VON DADELSZEN, E.J

Very tidy copy, octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, blind rule to rear board, black rule & decoration to front board & spine, patterned eps, folding colour map frontispiece, vii + 554pp, illus, folding statistical chart to rear, VG (slight rubbing to spine extrems & board corners, foxing & fading, gutters cracked, pages 199-203 have pulled through binding in the centre of text block and are loose.)

PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1895

KEYWORDS: EJ Von Dadelszen New Zealand history reference government politics farming agriculture population BDM exports imports industry

$34.50
xxefc44485

Maori & Pakeha: A Study of Mixed Marriages in New Zealand


HARRE, JOHN

first edition, hardcover octavo (VG) 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1966

KEYWORDS: new zealand history sociology mixed marriages john harre specials

$50.00
1i49/12

Photograms of the Year 1921; the Annual Review of the World's Pictorial Photographic Work


MORTIMER, F.J. (ed)

small quarto, light blue cloth boards with white and black lettering to front board and spine, frontispiece tipped in, 34pp + LXIV plates + 43pp adverts, illus, VG- (soiling to boards, stickers to front pastedown, wear to extremities including bruising to corners and closed tears to head and tail of spine, discolouration to pages and v occasional foxing), lacks d/w

PUBLISHER: Iliffe & Sons 1921

KEYWORDS: arts history photography f.j. mortimer

$67.50
1i49/20

The Island Melanesians


SPRIGGS, MATTHEW

octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 326pp, illus, VG+ in VG+ d/w (light rubbing and wear)

PUBLISHER: Blackwell 1997

KEYWORDS: history archaeology anthropology matthew springs island melanesians

$45.00
1i49/23

A Popular Account of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa


LIVINGSTONE, DAVID

duodecimo, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board and spine, blind rule to front board, frontispiece, vii + 436pp + 32pp adverts, illus, VG- (ex-library with usual treatments, soiling and rubbing to boards, bruising to corners and head and tail of spine, front and rear gutters cracked, foxing throughout esp. to eps, light tanning to pages)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1875

KEYWORDS: history david livingstone south africa religion travel

$145.00
xxefd44494

Ginger: The Military Career of Pte. Ginger Jordan, B.E.F.


WYNDHAM, CAPTAIN HORACE

scarce first edition, hardback, foxing, lacks 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: robert scott roxburghe house patternoster row

KEYWORDS: specials military history captain horace wyndam private ginger jordan biography

$9.00
xxefd44499

City of Dreams


SWERLING, BEVERLY

paperback, some creasing (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: bantam books

KEYWORDS: specials literature fiction historical history beverly swerling

$35.00
xxefd44530

Simla Past and Present (second edition)


BUCK, EDWARD J.

facsimile reproduction, hardcover octavo (VG+) lacks d/w; 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: The Times Press 2000

KEYWORDS: history edward j. buck simla india specials

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