ALBUM OF NEW ZEALAND VIEWS
Auckland: Smith & Caughey, 1905. 14 x 19cm. Original Printed Wrappers. pp. 30 b&w plates. Cover title. Pictorial card covers, sewn/tied. Covers worn but binding sound. More
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ALBUM of New Zealand Views
[No Imprint], 1885. 8vo. 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. More
ALBUM of South New Zealand Views
[No Imprint], 1885. First Edition. 8vo. Original Decorated Boards. c.1885. 29 illustrations on leaf folded to 18 x 14cm. Very good in orig decorated blue paper-covered boards. Detached at one of the folds without loss of the images. Views of Oamaru, Invercargill, Lake Wakatipu, Dunedin and Christchurch. Bagnall: 72... More
CHAMBERS'S PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLEvolume V
Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1850. 1st Edition. 12mo. Half Calf. volume 5 pp. [292]. Very good half calf and marbled boards.Content includes Antarctic Explorations, and, Rajah Brooke in Borneo. More
English Scenery, With One Hundred And Twenty Chromo Views
London: T Nelson. 1889. 8vo. Decorated Cloth. 120 chromolithographed views. Original decorated cloth, aeg. A very nice copy with fine chromolithograph plates. More
A Full And Genuine History Of The Inhumane And Unparalleled Murders Of Mr William Galley Customhouse-Officer, And Mr Daniel Charter. A Shoe Maker By Fourteen Notorious Smugglers, With The Trials And Executions Of Seven Of The Bloody Criminals
Chichester, 1810. 8vo. Hardcover. 8vo. 6th edtion. Pp. vi, 7-160. Frontispiece (with marginal tear) & 6 plates and text, stained and foxed. Original boards, neatly re-spined in later half calf. Circa 1810 A good complete copy in sound attractive binding. More
A Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy. Including Lucca, Tuscan and Its Off-Lying Islands, Florence, Umbria, The Marches, Part of the Patrimony on St. Peter, and the Island of Sardinia.
London: John Murray, 1867. Seventh Edition. 8vo. Half Calf. pp xi, 480. Includes plans of towns and folding maps. 1 folding map in back pocket. Half calf binding. Some wear to the leather. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Neat gilt library stamp to front board. Internals very good. A handsome..... More
A Handbook for Travellers in France: Being a Guide to Normandy, Brittany; The Rivers Seine, Loire, Rhome, and Garonne; The French Alps, Dauphine, The Pyrenees, Provence, and Nice...
London: John Murray, 1867. Tenth Edition, Entirely Revised. 8vo. Half Calf. pp xxxiii, 684. Folding maps. Half calf and boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Neat gilt crest to front board. Rare. More
The Handbook to the Bay of Plenty and Guide to the Hot Lakes
Tauranga: Langbridge & Edgecumbe, 1875. 20cm x 12cm. Original Wrappers. pp. , map (1 large folded inside front cover), contains advertising material, Historic touring guide to the Bay of Plenty and guide to the hot lakes, the boiling springs, the healing baths, the intermitting fountains, &c. of the Rotomahana and..... More
Leigh's New Pocket Road-book of England and Wales
London: Leigh, 1837. 6th Edition. Sm 8vo. Full Roan. pp. vi, 512, 4 9 (booklist). Frontispiece table of price of posting showing the charges usually made for a pair of horses. Original full roan binding (small fault at top of spine) else very good. A rare item in original binding..... More
NELSON, WESTLAND AND NORTH CANTERBURY. A Mining and Pastoral Country. Map
Wellington: New Zealand Survey, 1887. 23 x 10cm. Original Pictorial Wrappers. map, 60 x 56 cm folded to 23 x10, Cover title. [?1887] Distributed by Cook's Tours. Worn, mounted on linen. More
A New Geographical, Commercial, And Historical Grammar And Present State Of The Several Empires And Kingdoms Of The World. By A Society In Edinburgh The Astronomical Part Collected From The Works Of James Ferguson F.R.S. Enriched With The Late Discoveries Of Doctor Herschel..
Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid, 1802. Hardcover. 2 vols. 4th edition. 48 maps, plates & astronomical diagrams (mostly folding). Contemporary full suede, nicked at top of both spines. These early maps include a couple of the Pacific & New Holland and a fine folding frontispiece world map showing the two hemispheres... More
NEW ZEALAND Scenery with Special Views of the Middle Island
[No Imprint], 1885. 8vo. Original Decorated Cloth. c.1885. [12] pp illus on leaf 18 x 136cm folded to 18 x 14cm. Cover title. Decorated red cloth boards. More
NEW ZEALAND'S Leading Tourist Towns Annual 1922
Christchurch: Andrews, Baty & Co., 1922. First Edition. 8vo. Original Pictorial Wrappers. pp. 388. Contains illustrations and advertising matter. A rare item, full of interesting and informative advertisements on how to go, what to do and where to stay. Wrappers showing wear with loss to lower corner. More
NEW ZEALAND; A world in Itself
Wellington: New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau. 23cm x 20cm. Original Pictorial Wrappers. pp.[8], colour illus. Cover title, no date. Colour illus covers. Folds to 23 x 10cm brochure. Subtitle: " Vacation Wonderland of the South Pacific". Cellotape residue on first fold, else very good. More
Perils and Captivity; Comprising The Sufferings of the Picard Family after the Shipwreck of the Medusa, in the Year 1816. Narrative of the Captivity of M. De Brisson, in the Year 1785. Voyage of Mme Godin Along the River of the Amazons, in the Year 1770
Edinburgh: Constable and Company, 1827. 16mo. Half Morocco. pp xii, 334. Vol XI of Constable's Miscellany. Half morocco binding. Slight edgewear to spine, else veyr good. More
Picturesque Europe with Illustrations On Steel And Wood The Continent. 3 Vols.
London: Cassell. 4to. Cloth, Orig. (1900). 3 vols. Plates and illustrations. Very good in orig cloth. All edges gilt. A very handsome set. More
Picturesque Europe, the British Isles
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin. 4to. Cloth, Orig. 2 vols. c.1876. Complete with plates, engravings & illustrations. Original decorated cloth, aeg. A very good copy, in original cloth, complete with all plates. More
Real Stories Taken from The Narrative of Various Travellers
London: Harvey and Darton, 1827. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Quarter Morocco. pp vi, 204 + 4p adverts. Frontispiece. Original quarter morocco and boards. Two leaves stitched together in an early manner. One third of the work relates to visits to the South Sea Islands. Imaginative narrative with..... More
ROTORUA; VIEWS OF SCENIC BEAUTY AND THERMAL AREAS. Including Waimangu Tarawere Te Wairoa & Buried Village Whakarewa &c.
Rotorua: G. Jensen. JENSEN, A. 22 x 28cm. Original Pictorial Wrappers. pp. [12]photos by A. Jensen. Original stiffened paper, illus wrappers, tied with silky string. Some edgewear to covers, contents good. More
Syria, The Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated in a series of views drawn from Nature By W.H. Bartlett, William Purser, &c (Vols 1 and 3)
London: Fisher, Son & Co. 4to. Decorated Cloth. Undated, but publisher's advertisedment dated 1836. Vol 1, pp ii, 80; Vol 3, pp 100. Numerous plates, maps. "With descriptions of the plates by John Carne". Elaborate blindstamped green cloth binding with gilt decoration to boards. Spines are worn and rubbed with..... More
TOURIST GUIDE TO NEW ZEALAND 1929
P. Nathan, 1929. 12mo. Original Printed Wrappers. pp 199 . Illus, map.Tours and itineraries. Cover title. Issued by NZ Govt Tourist Dept. Contains advertising matter. Original wrappers; cartoon on front captioned: "It's worth looking over, Gentlemen" More
Travels, The Sea &c
Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers. 4to. Half Calf. Contains 'A Tour in Holland, the Countries on the Rhine, and Belgium in 1838' by William Chambers, 1842; 'Travels in the East Including a Journey in the Holy Land' by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1839; 'The Sea. Narratives of Adventure and Shipwreck, Tales..... More
A Visit to London
London: Darton. 8vo Small. Boards. c. 1840. Plates. Later binding. A cute children's book illustrated with numerous early engravings of scenes of London. More