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New Plymouth: New Plymouth Tourist & Expansion League. 25 x 10cm. Original Pictorial Wrappers. Folder.Illus, map.Cover title. Rare. More
New Plymouth: New Plymouth Tourist & Expansion League. 25 x 10cm. Original Pictorial Wrappers. Folder.Illus, map.Cover title. Rare. More
London: George Philip. No Binding. Coloured lithograph showing both islands of NZ with full geographic details. c 1850s 58 x 54 cm. One short marginal tear and lacks lower left had marginal corner. Attractive large, early item. More
NZ: 1892. 8vo. Cloth. Vol I, Nos 1-6, April 1892-October, 1894. pp.369. Complete with 2 large coloured folding chromolithographed maps, with a slight tear, in No. 3. Vol II, Nos. 7-9, May 1895 - May 1896, pp.195. original wrapper bound in. Two plates of photographs of Aorangi Mt Cook, and..... More
Auckland: N.Z. Golf Illustrated, 1928. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original Cloth. June 1927-May 1928, monthly issues bound together, complete. Binding worn at spine, sunned. Extremely rare. More
New Zealand: 1930. 10.5 x 20.5cm. Original Wrappers. pp. 52 single-side blue-print drawings of locomotives. Original wrappers. An extremely rare item, with printed date of 14/7/30 and the signature of E.T. Spider, Chief Mechanical Engineer. More
No Binding. A collection of 90 picture postcards from 1910 to 1930 showing scenes of activities, portraits, buildings, villages, art and carvings, etc, of Maori in New Zealand. The publishers include Muir & Moodie, Thomas Pringle, Ferguson Taylor, F S Sutton, and many others. A good collection of early 20th..... More
1895. No Binding. 4 pp illustrated broadsheet brochure of the Orient Line sailing to Australia, providing on-booking to other ports in Australia and New Zealand. With stamp of the "Orient" Line Agency, Glasgow. 21 x 26.5 cm. More
Dunedin: The Colonist, 1859. Small 8vo. Soft cover. pp. 84 plus adverts. Original printed covers with advertisement for the Queen's Arms Tavern on the back cover. Includes a calendar and diary for the year, government and provincial directory, statistics for the province, gardener's calendar and other useful and interesting information.Some..... More
No Binding. Plan of a proposed fountain for Palmerston North. Showing perspective, elevation, and plan views. 37 x 47 cm. Probably designed for a competition to build a fountain in 1902 for Palmerston North's central square in commemoration of the coronation of King Edward VII. The competition was won by..... More
Christchurch: Nag's Head Press, 1977. Small 8vo. Original Boards. pp.28,[4]. Original boards. Fine in fine original printed d/w. Hand-set edition limited to 150 copies. Nag's Head Press was New Zealand's most prolific private printer, known for their delightfully designed books and fine typography. Rare in mint condition. More
No Binding. Quarto-sized photogrph of the Parnell Baths c.1960s. An extremely crowded scene showing more than 100 people in various states of bathing and costume, sun-bathing, swimming, enjoying themselves in this iconic and very popular place, still operating today. Top left edge torn away, otherwise an extremely good and interesting..... More
Wellington: Alex Ferguson, 1903. Unbound. Large poster advertising "Auction Sale of the Most Valuable Town in the North Island". Includes street plan of sections available and an inset Locality Plan. Size 89cm x 57.5cm. Minor damp damage at foot of picture, and some edgewear and light wrinkling, else good. More
Wellington: J J McCaskey & Son, 1940. Soft cover. pp 32, illustrated paper wrappers. Catalogue of camping equipment including tents, sleeping bags, furniture, alpine equipment, "none of the Essentials for comfort in the Outdoor Life are lacking." Some prices handwritten in. Intersting war time catalogue. More
No Binding. Photograph of gentlemen on an excursion sitting at the base of a huge Kauri tree. c. 1890. 13.5 x 20 cm. More
No Binding. B&W cartoon showing a Maori in lemon squeezer hat, with a cooking pot beind him, paddling a European man. The canoe is named 'Arawa', and the inference of the cartoon is of a native man paddling the European with his eye on a meal. 15 x 27 cm..... More
Christchurch: Nag's Head Press, 1951. Small 8vo. Original Wrappers. pp.67. Original wrappers in good, printed d/w, slightly foxed. Nag's Head Press was New Zealand's most prolific private printer, known for their delightfully designed books and fine typography. Rare in mint condition. More
4to. Hardcover. Album with many high quality photographs of Taranaki, e.g cricket ground of New Plymouth, Paritutu from the breakwater showing rail lines an shipping, Maori pa, Fife and drum band at Parihaka, Mt Egmont, etc. Other smaller views of the hot lakes district etc. Hand-written captions. c 1900-10. More
Lonodon: House of Commons, 1841. Folio. Printed Wrappers. pp 148. Papers relating to "the Protection of the Aborigines of New Zealand," "Charter for the Government of New Zealand as a separate colony," "New Zealand Land Bill", Treaty of Waitangi, establishing Auckland as seat of government, complete with folding panorama in..... More
No Binding. Sepia photograph (21.5 x 16.5 cm) of Wellington, looking across Thorndon towards the harbour, with Mt Victoria and Oriental Bay in the distance. A game of bowls in progress in the mid-ground. c. 1890. Extremely clear images of buildings; rare photograph taken from an interesting angle. More
Christchurch: Nag's Head Press, 1979. Facs. Reprint. 12mo. Orig. Cloth. pp. [5-21], Number 105 of 135 numbered copies, facsimile reprint of original document in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Title label on front boards. In vellum wrapper as published. More
London: London Illustrated News, 1851. Folio. Hardcover. Original cloth, joints worn. Contains much information on the 1851 exhibition in great detail with many illustrations, Australian goldfields, pirates attacking Chinese fleet. NZ information includes engraving of a Maori war canoe, with a magnificently carved prow, and Maori warrior in attendance, alongside..... More
1881. No Binding. Coloured lithograph showing detail of the town sections, sanatorium grounds, railway station, "native" village of Ohinemutu. Includes smaller plan of rural and suburban lots in town of Rotorua, and rural sections which will be further divided, surveyed by A B Morrow and R C Reay. S Percy..... More
Auckland. No Binding. Plans of sections of a new warehouse building showing floor plans, scale 8 fett to 1 inch, by the architects A Clark and Sons Ltd. c. 1920s. 65 x 54 cm, free mounted on card. More
Dunedin: A H and A W Reed, 1938. 8vo. Hardcover. pp 312, including tipped in newspaper article on the letters of the Deans brothers, and pencilled note and annotations. C R Straubel's copy. More
[No Imprint], 1888. First Edition. 8vo. Original Decorated Boards. c.1888. 45 engravings from photographic views on leaf 18 x 163 cm folded to 18 x 13.5cm. Orig decorated blue paper-covered boards with Australian coat of arms above title and "Entered at Stationers' Hall" at foot of title. Printed in Germany..... More