Remington Arms in American History
New York: Rinehart & Co, 1956. First Edition. Original Wrappers. pp.vi,359, Plates Illustrations d/w, Fine copy of the 1st edition. History War Guns.
New York: Rinehart & Co, 1956. First Edition. Original Wrappers. pp.vi,359, Plates Illustrations d/w, Fine copy of the 1st edition. History War Guns.
London: Hitch and Orrs, 1759. Hardcover. pp 319; 90, plus table of contents. Several pages of calculations. Rebound in quarter calf and marbled boards. A trade calculator.
London: Virtue & Co, 1850. Hardcover. 2 vols in one. Pp. xii, 122; 44 (The Carpenter and Builders' Measurer). Portrait frontispiece, title page & 121 engraved plates. Quarter mottled calf and boards. (The plates in the following order: I - LXXXV + AA - QQ ( JJ being omitted );.....
1895. No Binding. Coloured lithograph.
1895. No Binding. Tinted lithograph. Hautapu district.
Auckland: Martin & Kinloch, 1861. No Binding. Fine lithograph map with original hand colouring. Includes text" The deed from the Waikato Chiefs the Governor Fitzroy conveyed all the interest of the Waikato Chiefs in the land from Tongaporutu to Waitotara and was signed by Te Wherowhero (Potatou) and others."
London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1905. Cloth, Orig. Frontis photographs + plates and folding map. Contemporary Cloth. Gilt stamp on frontboard. Stain on front board and light foxing to frontpages but else a good copy. Account of the petroleum industry in the Caucasus, written by the editor of Petroleum World.....
Barton-on-Humber, England: Hopper & Co Ltd, 1934. Soft cover. pp.34 22cm x 16.5cm. Drawings of "The Reliability Cycle" include a carrier model for grocery delivery. Soft cover has slight marks and staple rust.
London: H. & W. Brown, 1895. Orig. Cloth. pp. 115, [9]. Contains numerous illustrations throughout of technical details of shoeing etc. General good condition, some marks to cloth, sunning to spine. Inscriptions to pastedown. Rare early work.
London: W. Foulsham & Co., Undated but likely c.1888. 2nd Edition. Hardback. Bound in red paper with title and author embossed in black ink within black frame on front board and sans frame on spine. A late-19th Century work purporting to teach the reader how to assess character by reading.....
London: WM. Clarke, J. Murray, S. Bagster, J.M. Richardson, Sherwood and Co., 1815. Hardcover. 7 vols. 300 copper engravings and over 150 wood engravings within the text. Full contemporary calf. Fine binding. A beautiful set containing numerous examples of the architecture of Great Britain in fine and full contemporary calf.....
London: Longman, 1864. Half Calf. 2 Vols. 2 frontis portraits, 5 plates (1 folding) & illustrations in text. Contemporary half calf. A very good set.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; J. Hinton; T. Davies; Hawes, Clarke, and Collins; R. Horsefield, [et al.], 1773. 5th Edition, corrected. Hardback. Contemporary full calf, gilt-panelled spine, maroon morocco label for title. Five raised bands on spine. Joints cracked on both volumes. Amateur repairs to same.....
John Murray Press, 2010. hardcover. The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take.....
Washington DC: Govt Printer, 1883. Disbound. pp.74.Illustrations (some coloured).
1865. Disbound. pp 374-381. Title handwritten to front wrapper. Royal Society of N.Z stamp to front wrapper. Foxed. Disbound.
Toledo, Ohio: Netcraft Company, 1945. 6th Edition. Soft cover. Pp.71, 22cm x 15cm. Illustrated covers, numerous B&W drawings and photos. Booklet on how to make, mend and preserve nets for fishing, tennis, basketball, and nets for hammocks. Fascinating and scarce.
Goppingen/Wurtt. Marklin, 1966. No Binding. pp.73. Original wrapper, with painted coloured illustrations front and back, in good condition, though is detached from the staples. Stamp of the Auckland, New Zealand sales agent "Martins - the Mecca for Modellers" with typed price list inserted. Catalogue of model railway equipment from GEBR.Marklin.....
Goppingen/Wurtt. Marklin, 1962. No Binding. pp.59.21cmx20cm, Original wrapper, with painted coloured illustrations front and back, in good condition, though is detached from the staples. Stamp of the Auckland, New Zealand sales agent "Martins - the Mecca for Modellers" with typed price list inserted. Catalogue of model railway equipment from GEBR.Marklin.....
Random House NZ, 2010. paperback. Roads, bridges, dams, railway viaducts, tunnels ...New Zealand is full of amazing feats of engineering. Our number-eight wire mentality has brought about some incredible engineering solutions to create structures and systems to wonder at, from the Manapouri underground power station to Burt Munro's famous Indian.....
London: Longman, 1821. 4th Edition. Half Calf. pp. [6], 196. Contemporary half calf, joints showing wear but holding. Early owner's marks on fixed end papers, lacking ffep, and two names on title page.
London: Griffin, 1899. 2nd Edition. Full Calf. pp xix, 440. Illustrations in text. 2nd edition. Full contemporary calf, prize binding with emblem on front board. A very good copy.
Sydney: McPherson's Proprietary Limited, 1933. Soft cover. Pp.272 but pages 1 and 2 are missing. 25cm x 18.5cm. Soft cover has detached from staple binding where pages were removed. Catalogue of tools, light engineering parts. etc.
Liverpool: Meccano Ltd. Soft cover. pp.20. 22cm x 17cm. Pre 1926. Original wrapper. Some staining on back as well as damage to some pages, though not the image area. Back wrapper has shop stamp Frank Wiseman Ltd, Queen St. Auckland. Nine Meccano outfits numbered 00 to 7 are shown with.....
London: Cotes, 1810. Hardcover. Pp. xix (incl. list of subscribers), 150. 2 plates. Original boards, uncut. Paper spine showing some wear, but else a good copy. The words 'Hardy and Houghton' are underlined in early ink on title page. Pencil notes on fly indicates author could be William Hardy or.....