WILLIAMS, HERBERT W.

First edition, super octavo, red paper stapled wrappers with black lettering to front, xvi + 198pp, VG (moderate fading to covers & esp to spine, chaffing to spine sides, owner's name in ink to front cover, owner's name & date in ink to fep, some foxing & tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: WAG Skinner Governement Printer 1924

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori bibliography reference

COWAN, JAMES

2 volume set, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterened eps, frontispiece, xx + 471pp (vol 1), xx +560pp (vol 2), illus, VG+ (light soiling & foxing to page edges, owner's name to title page of both volumes) in d/w, VG (light foxing, light fading to spines, some creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: R. E. Owen Government Printer 1955 (vol 1) / 1956 (vol 2)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand wars military history pioneering Maori history hauhau wars

COWAN, JAMES

Octavo, illus green heavy card boards with green cloth spine, frontispiece x 2, contents + clean folding map + 279pp, illus, VG (some staining to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & creasing to spine cloth, some tanning to page edges, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown & title page, some soiling to eps, v. occasional ink spot to pages)

PUBLISHER: John Mackay Government Printer 1908

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history geography travel tourism

WAUGH, RICHARD (Ed) & PHILLIPS, DAVID

Less common in this hardcover edition, quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards, illus eps, 120pp, illus, VG+ (v. slight fading to spine, puckering to last page)

PUBLISHER: Richard Waugh / Project Electra 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand aviation history Electra Lockheed 10 airline aeroplanes transport

YOUNG, VICTOR

Oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with white lettering to spine and yellow & white lettering to front board, printed rear eps, frontispiece, illus title page, 256pp, illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Transpress NZ 2009

KEYWORDS: New Zealand ferry transport history passenger ships Cook Strait ferries boats ships

PIERRE, W. A.

Super octavo, light yellow boardswith black lettering to front board, illus eps, viii + 190pp, illus, VG (prev owners signature in ink to fep and title page, light wear to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges,) in d/w, VG (moderately soiling and wear to covers, old price tag to front cover which has been half removed causing surface loss to cover)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive SOciety 1964

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Canterbury railway transport NZR railways trains locomotives steam engines

PHILLIPPS, WILLIAM J.

Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 291pp, illus, VG+ (light wear to board edges, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing to edges, creasing & nicks to spine extrems, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: RE Owen Government Printer 1955

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori carving carved houses buildings art

n/a

Original binding, quarto, red heavy card boar) with black lettering to front board, red cloth spine, frontispiece, 88pp + 63pp, illus, VG (light fading to spine, slight soiling to front board, some browning to page edges, heavy browning to eps, owner's name & address & date in ink to front pastedown & to frontispiece verso,

PUBLISHER: John Mackay Government Priner 1899

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori land legislation meetings law history

PITT-RIVERS, GEORGE HENRY LANE-FOX

Ex library, imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 312pp, VG- (moderately heavy browning to page edges, some fraying to board edges & corners & to spine extrems, damage & wear to spine sides, some staining to boards, moderate foxing throughout, some annotation in pencil, relatively light library markings)

PUBLISHER: George Routledge & Sons 1927

KEYWORDS: New Zealand anthropology Pacific culture Maori Samoa Aborigines

SMITH, NORMAN

Octavo, brown boards with blue lettering & blue decorative lines to spine & front boards, 96pp, VG (owner's name & address & date in ink to front pastedown & to title page, slight tanning & foxing to upper page edges)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1962

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori land corporations politics finance business law

HECTOR, JAMES (Director)

Reports of 9th to 14th bound together, super octavo, half bound with dark grey textured cloth boards and gilt lettering to black leather spine, paged edges stained speckled red, brown coated eps, 35pp + 50pp + 28pp + 55pp + 39pp + 54pp, VG (heavy scuffing with loss of surface to spine extrems & board corners & spine sides, bookbinder's label to front pastedown, owner's name & date in ink to first title page, occasional light foxing)

PUBLISHER: George Didsbury Government Printer 1874-1879

KEYWORDS: New Zealand colonial museum laboratory history reference

EWERS, CHRIS

Small quarto, illus brown light card covers with white lettering, illus rear ep, 170pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to covers)

PUBLISHER: Anchor Press 1993

KEYWORDS: Chris Ewers New Zealand Nelson autobiography Moutere farming agriculture

CHRISTIE, A. B. & BRATHWAITE, R. L. (Eds)

Very large quarto, illus red glossy heavy card boards with white lettering to spine & front board, xviii + 354pp, illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy 2006

KEYWORDS: New Zealand geology mining metallurgy

ROWE, W. PAGE

Super octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine and white & black lettering to front board, red, black & white kowhaiwhai pattern to boards & eps, red eps, xvi + 61pp, illus, VG (slight fading to boards, some foxing to upper page edges, owner's name in ink to title page & owner's address & date in ink to half-title page)

PUBLISHER: Thomas Avery & Sons 1928

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori art craft carving design arts

KEESING, FELIX M.

Super octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine and white & black lettering to front board, red, black & white kowhaiwhai pattern to boards & eps, red eps, xvi + 198pp, illus, VG+ (moderate bruising to spine extrems, light scuffing and soiling to boards, light tanning to spine, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Thomas Avery & Sons 1928

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history

EDWARDS, FLIGHT LT. TED & MCQUAID, PETER (Ed)

Large quarto, illus blue light card covers with white lettering to front & black lettering to spine, printed eps, 192pp, illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Northland Branch RNZAF 2010

KEYWORDS: RNZAF New Zealand Air Force Northland biography biographies

BEST, ELSDON

First edition, large quarto, brown light card covers with black lettering to front cover, viii + 191pp, illus, VG (owner's name stamped to front cover and to fep, light browning to spine, 2cm loss of surface to spine head, slight tanning to covers & page edges)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand games pastimes leisure activities culture

MILLIGAN, R. R. D. & DUNMORE, JOHN (Ed)

Limited numbered edition, quarto, orange-pink light card covers with black lettering to front and black tape spine, vii + 146pp, illus, VG (some tanning to upper page edges, occasional tanning & foxing elsewhere, owner's name address & date in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Estate of RRD Milligan & J Dunmore 1964

KEYWORDS: Maori Chief Tuki-Tahua New Zealand map

HAMILTON, A (Ed)

First edition, large quarto, beige light card covers with black lettering to front & handwritten title to spine, 71pp, illus, VG- (front & rear covers missing completely, owner's name & date in ink to title page, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, staples rusting)

PUBLISHER: John Mackay Government Printer 1906

KEYWORDS: New Zealand museum bulletin geology natural history marine mollusca botany Maori culture history

HUMPHRIES, THOMAS

Super octavo, beige heavy card boards with black lettering to front board and red cloth spine, 24pp + folding chart to rear, VG (moderately heavy staining & some tanning to boards, light chaffing to spine, owner's name in ink to front board & with address + date to fep, some foxing to page edges, some annotation in pencil)

PUBLISHER: Lands & Survey Department / John Mackay Government Printer 1899

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Thomas Humphries surveyor surveying astronomy