White Wings : Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade 1850 to 1900. Vol I
Auckland: Brett, 1924. 8vo. Cloth. Vol I. pp. 368. Illustrations (including portraits). Important record of early shipping in New Zealand. More
Auckland: Brett, 1924. 8vo. Cloth. Vol I. pp. 368. Illustrations (including portraits). Important record of early shipping in New Zealand. More
London: John Murray, 1883. Hardcover. Pp. xii, 413. 10 engraved plates (some foxing caused by removed tissue guards), woodcuts in text & folding coloured map of world (canvas backed). Contemporary half calf, gilt. With two gilt crests to front board & spine. A complete and handsome copy of this rare..... More
London: Longmans, 1908. 8vo. Hardcover. pp.xii, 216. Coloured plates and illustrations in text. Original decorated cloth. Minor foxing on a few pages. A very good complete copy. More
Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1920. 8vo. Original Boards. pp. 175. Numerous illustrations & plates, folding map. Original stiffened paper d/w. Extremely rare. More
Linlithgow: Waldia Printer, 1879. No Binding. Rare lithographed original broadsheet advertising the pasturage of two home fields north of Mansion House in Linlithgow, dated 24 March, 1879. The land was in the historic Champfleurie estate, close to Linlithgow palace where Mary Queen of Scots was born. More
London: The author, 1828. Folio. Hardcover. 2 vols. Full morocco, decorated on edges of the boards. Front board detached on Vol 2. Large paper copy with India paper plates, wide margins. Complete with maps and plates. Some foxing on margins. All edges gilt. More
London: Murray, 1833. 8vo. Full Calf. 3 vols. set. Engraved title pages with vignettes, engravings. A fine complete set in full ribbed, decorated caf, gilt decorations, a e g. More
London: Brook, 1854. 8vo. Hardcover. 2 vols. Complete with 97 hand-coloured plates plus vignette. Original decorated cloth. Front joints a little loose but holding. Otherwise a very good set. More
London: W Palmer, 1806. 12mo. Hardcover. pp 356, 2 frontispiece double page maps of Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 1 p Advert. 3 folding maps of Africa, Asia and Europe. Dictionary contains information on "Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provincies, Cities, Towns, Forts, Seas, Harbours.....etc." with the 'Government, Customs, Manners, and Religion, of..... More
London: Lowndes, 1774. Full Calf. pp.viii,304. Frontispiece.Woodblock illustrations of fish species throughout, tear to one leaf, affecting several letters of text. Early pencil notes on front end paper, full contemporary roan, sympathetically respined in matching calf. A most attractive item. More
1946. No Binding. double-sided single sheet, 17.5 x 20.5 cm, headed Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd, Melbourne & Sydney. Undated but likely 1946 (also the year of an Australian Election that Robert Menzies took part in). Hand-written letter: " My Dear F.M.B. Yours of the 15th August to hand. Re our..... More
1830. No Binding. Signature of Lord Brougham, on slip: 'London June Sixteen 1830, Lady Moore, Brook Farm, Cobham, Surrey. Brougham'. Includes a postmark dated 16 June 1830. Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) was the liberal and reformist politician who became Lord Chancellor in 1830, playing a significant..... More
1831. No Binding. Signature of Lord Brougham, on slip: 'London March.. 1831, The Lady Arabella Acheson. Worlingham Hall, Beccles, Suffolk. H Brougham'. Includes a postmark dated 31 March 1831. Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) was the liberal and reformist politician who became Lord Chancellor in 1830, playing..... More
1863. No Binding. Three hand-written letters with stamped envelopes from a Civil War soldier R P Brown to his parents in New Jersey in March 1863, from Pott's Landing, Washington DC. He gives his address for writing as 'Rob P Brown, care of Captain J A Reynolds, New York Light..... More
London: J. & D. A. Darling, 1851. 8vo. Hardcover. pp.viii,302.Original dark green embossed cloth in beautiful condition. The author explains why New Zealand faiiled to attract emigrants and men of capital when it seemed to have so many advantages. NZNB 708a. More
London: Harrison and Sons, 1888. 1st Edition. 8vo. Half-Morocco. Folding canvas frontispiece, maps, (3 folding on canvas and plates). 8vo. Contemporary half morocco. Neat gilt stamp on spine and front board. A very good complete copy of this rarity. More
London: Smith, Elder, 1875. Small 8vo. Hardcover. 6 vols. Contemporary half red morocco binding. AEG. A finely bound handsome set. More
Paris: Ch-Delagrave, 1830. LEVASSEUR, E. Unbound. c. 1830s. Orig, hand-coloured engraved French map of Oceania, depiciting Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Pacific Islands & South America. Plate No. 48 from 'Universal Atlas physical geography, politics, ancient & modern ...'. Image size 605mm x 36mm, full size, 510mm x 475mm. Freefloating &..... More
Paris: Desrai, Goujon, 1814. No Binding. Large hand-coloured map of South-east Asia, the China coast, Japan, the west coast of North and South America, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. The map has a dedication to the Comte d'Artois. New Zealand is labelled 'Fabieno-Mauwe' (North Isl.) and Tauai-Poenammoo' (South Isl.)..... More
Paris: 1826. Unbound. Orignal, hand-coloured engraved map of New Holland (Australia) with distorted map of New Zealand, at bottom right wiht a lot of detail, New Guinea & other Pacific Islands. Each Australian region is named: Terre de Gran, Baudin, Flinders, Nuyts, Leuwin, d'Edel, Dendracth, Witt, Van Diemen, d'Arnheim, and..... More
Delft: Henrik van Krooneveld, 1698. No Binding. A large folding copper engraving of Alexandria. The engraving shows travellers in front of ruins and the city in a wide landscape. This detailed and evocative engraving, is from the publication of Cornelius van Bruyn, the 17th C painter who travelled through the..... More
Delft: Henrik van Krooneveld, 1698. No Binding. A folding copper engraving with two images of Cairo. The upper image shows boats on the Nile in the foreground with the city on the shore, spiked with minarets. The lower one shows an oasis with donkeys and horses in the foreground and..... More
Delft: Henrik van Krooneveld, 1698. No Binding. A large folding copper engraving of three images of the Nile. The two upper engravings show boats on the river with villages on the far shore. The lower image shows the river with the city of Mansoura on the shore. These detailed and..... More
Delft: Henrik van Krooneveld, 1698. Small Folio. Vellum Boards. Title page, Introduction page, 2 plates including of author, 16 pp text, 1-362 pp, with 154 p text missing though the volume. 44 plates, including double-edged and folding, and 7 text illustrations, in all comprising 104 numbered images. Plates largely in..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprint. 8vo. Half Morocco. The Man in the Making pub 1939 pp 436, The Saviour of the Navy pub 1942 pp452, The Years of Peril pub 1936 pp466, frontis in each volume. Inscription on pastedowns, minor foxing to prelims. Half crushed oasis Morocco binding, gilt spine..... More