MARKS, ROBIN

INSCRIBED & SIGNED, super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiv + 601pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems & rear board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing/gouging to rear, light soiling, light creasing to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Tuapeka County Council 1977

KEYWORDS: signed Robin Marks New Zealand history Tuapeka County centennial centenary pioneers settlers

MANNERING, GEORGE EDWARD

FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey buckram boards, red lettering to spine & front board, 255pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light staining to top edge of front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor wrinkling to prelims) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine & front cover, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Simpson & Williams 1943

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history G E Mannering autobiography autobiographies memoir

SARA, W A

Octavo, illus stapled light card covers, frontispiece, 47pp, illus/photos, VG (light chafing/soiling & wrinkling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: A R Shearer, Gov't Printer 1970

KEYWORDS: New Zealand geology glaciers Westland National Park geological surveys landscape

HAY, ROBERT

UNCOMMON, octavo, blue string bound light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 6pp, VG- (moderate wrinkling & staining to covers, top corner of front cover missing, top corners of pages heavily chipped)

PUBLISHER: Wm Clowes and Sons 1884

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Strath Taieri Bridge civil engineering history bridges

MEESON, J T (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, frontispiece, 195pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, 80

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Alpine Club 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand alpine journals past issues vol ii 2 two historical history mountaineering mountain adventure clubs

BATHGATE, ALEXANDER

LACKS FEP, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind rule to boards, vii + 286pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & extrems, moderate chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to half title pages, sl foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: James Maclehose 1874

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago colonialism history colonial

BEATTIE, H

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 204pp, illus, VG (spine sl cocked, moderate rubbing & scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate staining & chafing to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to verso of half title page, occasional cracking to gutters, light to moderate foxing to pages sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1939

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history T B Kennard Otago pakeha biography biographies memoir first editions

SIM, J A (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 420pp + index to rear, illus, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Alpine Club 1978

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Alpine Journal history historical past issues journals club clubs volume vi 6 six

HOWARD, BASIL

FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY- warmly inscribed, dated & signed by author, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xx + 415pp, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG (light to moderate fading & scuffing to spine extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, aforementioned inscription in ink to ffep, light foxing to prelims, sm pocket to rear pastedown, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges- tidy archival tape repair, moderate tanning to spine, moderate staining to rear, light general soiling)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1940

KEYWORDS: first editions association copies signed Basil Howard New Zealand history Stewart Island Rakiura whaling early settlers pioneers

GREEN, WILLIAM SPOTSWOOD

LACKS FEP, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 350pp, VG (spine cocked, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing & moderate soiling to page edges, ffep missing, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1883

KEYWORDS: history New Zealand alpine alps Mount Cook glaciers travel writing literature William Spotswood Green

ROSS, MALCOLM & HAWERIDGE, R (Illus)

Square octavo, illus string bound covers, red lettering to front cover, aeg, unpaginated, illus with tissue guards, VG- (heavy tearing to spine/covers, moderate to heavy tanning & foxing to covers with sm ink stains also, light to moderate tanning & foxing throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: J Wilkie & Co N/D (c.1900s)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated west coast sounds historic history historical

ROBERTS, W H S

Octavo, black buckram boards, lettering to title plate on spine- heavilt rubbed, printed eps, 502pp, VG (moderate rubbing to spine, light bruising to board extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light cracking to spine/hinges, moderate tanning & foxing/staining to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to verso of preface page, light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Andrew Fraser 1890

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history north Otago Oamaru 19th nineteenth century early settlers pioneers

MUELLER, FERDINAND

PLATES PRESENT, super octavo, green buckram soft covers, gilt lettering to front cover, unpaginated prelims + 86pp, 7x plates to rear, G+ (heavy cracking/separation to spine, heavy fraying/scuffing to cover edges, minor soiling to covers, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy cracking to front gutter- front cover almost detached, light tanning & foxing throughout, minor cracking to gutters throughout, occasional soiling & foxing to plates)

PUBLISHER: John Ferres, Gov't Printer 1864

KEYWORDS: New Zealand plants vegetation Chatham Islands sketches Ferdinand Mueller botany plants

BLAIR, JOHN

Octavo, white light card covers, red lettering to front cover, unpaginated prelims + 112pp, G+ (spine & rear cover completely missing, top & bottom corners missing, moderate creasing to edges, moderate creasing & soiling to front cover, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, gift inscription in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: R T Wheeler 1889

KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature New Zealand recitations readings John Blair

BAILEY, ALFRED M & SORENSEN, J H

Super 8vo 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: Denver Museum of Natural History 1962

KEYWORDS: Campbell Island natural history subantarctic New Zealand

DEWAR, G E

8vo hardcover (VG-), lacking ffep; 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 1953

KEYWORDS: New Zealand South Southern pioneering pioneer 19th century history

CRUMPTON, E W

Signed by author. 8vo 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: Batyprint New Zealand 1979

KEYWORDS: New Zealand West Coast goldrush gold rush industry 19th century

HALL-JONES, FRED

8vo 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: Otago Daily Times 1971

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Rotary international club

RAWSON, DAVID

Signed & inscribed by author. 8vo 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: D. H. Rawson 1979

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Search and Rescue Taranaki North Island

KNIGHT, IAN; HOOK, ADAM (illus.)

8vo 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: Osprey 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori military history fortifications war warfare