ALBUM of New Zealand Views
[No Imprint], 1885. Original Decorated Cloth. c.1885. 20 illustrations on leaf 18 x 136cm folded to 18 x 14cm. Cover title. Decorated blue cloth boards, stamped on final leaf: Glaser, Leipzig. Bagnall: 71.
[No Imprint], 1885. Original Decorated Cloth. c.1885. 20 illustrations on leaf 18 x 136cm folded to 18 x 14cm. Cover title. Decorated blue cloth boards, stamped on final leaf: Glaser, Leipzig. Bagnall: 71.
Glasgow: Porteous Brothers, 1875. Original Cloth. pp 220 + adverts. Undated, c1870s. Green blindstamped cloth with gilt titles. An introduction for prospective immigrants made up of largely unacknowledged extracts from published material on the country.
Glasgow: Porteous Brothers, 1875. Original Cloth. pp 220 + adverts [8]. Undated, c1870s. Original blue blindstamped cloth with gilt titles. Some wear. An introduction for prospective immigrants made up of largely unacknowledged extracts from published material on the country. A good copy.
London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1890. First Edition. Original Printed Wrappers. pp. 36. Numerous charts and diagrams. Map (folding). Slight chipping of front wrapper, back wrapper missing.
Waikato: Waikato Illustrated Advertisements, 1893. No Binding. pp 41-220. Lacking covers. Almanac and adversing publication for the Waikato and surrounding districts for the year 1893. Includes numerous articles and monthly guides on gardening and orchards, farming, district descriptions (e.g. Rotorus, Matamata), Government legislation, data on farm production, custom's tariffs etc......
Wellington: 1868. Unbound. pp 5. Further correspondence relating to the escape of the Maori prisoners from the Chatham Islands. An important part of early New Zealand history. Rare.
Wellington: 1868. Unbound. pp 27. Details on the arrangements made for the Maori prisoners taken to the Chatham Islands. Includes lists of the prisoners' names. Rare and in very god condition. Unbound but holding.
Wellington: 1868. Unbound. pp 11. Arrangements for dealing with the Maori prisoners taken to the Chatham Islands. Important part of early New Zealand history and relationships with Maori. Rare.
Auckland: NZ Government, 1864. Hardcover. pp.208, full leather binding. Comprising legislation on justice, land management and purchase, regional government. Auckland printing. NZNB 4078.
James Cundee. Hardcover. pp 403, frontispiece, 9 plates, 8vo, original calf boards, re-spined. Lacking title page and contents. c. 1820. Popular account of the first two voyages with engravings.
1851. Wrappers. pp 12. Correspondence between 1850-1. The grievance of the absentee holders of land orders. NZNB 1434.
London: Wesleyan Missionary Society, 1848. Original Wrappers. pp.36. Original wrappers with small tear to front wrapper. Bagnall 5983.
Wellington: Cyclopedia Company, 1897. Hardcover. pp.xxvii,1525. Illustrations. Lacks title page, preface leaf worn, both original boards present but detached. Could be recased. A wealth of valuable historical, commercial and biographical information, not to be found elsewhere. A good working copy with all the information described above.
Wellington: Cyclopedia Company, 1897. Rebound. pp.992. Illustrations.Tidy rebound in nice cloth, city edition plus districts, omits preface and prelims indices of Provincial edition. Includes the districts such as Carterton, Masterton, Greytown, Lower Hutt, Featherston etc. A wonderful wealth of information, not found elsewhere on business/commercial history, merchants etc.
Wellington: Cyclopedia Company, 1897. Rebound. pp.773. Illustrations.Early cloth binding, with title page. City edition, omits preface and prelims indices of Provincial edition. A wonderful wealth of information, not found elsewhere on business/commercial history, merchants etc.
Wellington: Government Printer, 1889. Soft cover. 15 pp, double-page map, original lithograph wrappers, stained.Tourist pamphlet including descriptions of the major lakes and resorts in the South Island, and railway timetables and fares.
Wellington: 1868. Unbound. pp 13. In English and Maori. Relates to the confiscation of land as punishment for the Hauhaus uprising. Includes lists of Maori signatures and their land areas. Papers sewn as issued. Rare.
1850. 1st Edition. Soft cover. pp 8. No title page or date. Brown paper covers. A revised translation of the Church Catechism, likely published in 1850 to accompany three catechisms published with the same imprint in the previous year (Williams 204). Also in Hocken (513).
New Zealand: Prayer Book & Homily Society? 1851. Soft Cloth Binding. pp. 43. Rare early Maori language pamphlet, extracts from The Church of England, Book of Common Prayer. Dark brown stiffened cloth wrappers. Refs: Williams: 221. BIM: 405.
Napier: Harding, 1886. Soft cover. 7 pp. Original coloured wrappers. One of a series of Reports of the Native Church Board of the Diocese of Waiapu, this report dated 5 October, 1885. Contains a list of members and the President's Address. (Edward C Waiapu). See Williams 670, 689, 713 etc......
London: The Graphic, 1873. Unbound. c. 1873.Original etching showing two images under the title 'Hot Lakes of New Zealand' Central View of Rotamahana, Auckland & The Tattooed Basin Tarata. Both actually showing the Pink & White Terraces, Rotorua. Free-floating & protected by mylar. Size 240mm x 330mm. A very nice.....
Sydney: George Robertson, 1878. No Binding. 24 pp, Original blue printed wrappers. Two sermons, by the Rev A Milne Jarvie and the Rev P Falconer MacKenzie, given at the Scots Church Sydney, 18 August 1878, in memory of the recent death of the noted writer, historian and clergyman John Dunmore.....
1868. Hardcover. 9 pp. Modern cloth binding. Address given to the members of the New Zealand Institute by Bowen as its first President, on August 4, 1868. The Institute was the successor to the New Zealand Society, established by George Grey in 1851. It was established by James Hector in.....
Auckland: Arthur Cleave and Co., 1898. Quarter cloth and Boards. pp.346.viii. Illustrations. Complete, rare item, one of the few giving early commercial information. NZNB I99a Re-backed with orig. boards.
1860. Unbound. c. 1860. Original coloured engraving showing The Gold Digging region of Kapangee Flat in the Coromandel. Size of image 240mm x 165mm, with mat, 35mm x 280mm. An attractive engraving.