No Binding. Folding sheet of vellum with text and 10 hand-coloured illustrations showing various techniques and positions of love-making (Kama sutra). c. 1890. 130 x 18.2 cm An unusual and extremely rare and unique erotic item of Balinese origin. More
London: London Illustrated News, 1857. Folio. Hardcover. Original cloth, spine worn, fair condition. Contains fold-out of Queen Victoria opening Parliament. Numerous illustrations. Full page coloured lithographs of Sutton, Surrey, and Como, Switzerland, the Great Eastern paddle ship, Cawnpore on the Ganges, Delhi, Peshawar, Benares. Engravings of the storming of Delhi..... More
1880. Hardcover. 50 tinted photographs on 25 cards showing Japanese life and culture, including rural scenes such as Kiga, Hakone, costumes and domestic activities. Each image is named, interleaved with tissues. All edges gilt. The binding is exceptional with lacquered pictorial covers, the front board showing two figures with inset..... 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
Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1934. 8vo. Cloth. 8vo. Plates. Contemporary original cloth. A good complete copy in original cloth. More
London: London Illustrated News, 1862. Folio. Hardcover. Original cloth, spine worn, fair condition. Contains guide to the international exhibition, 1862, London. Engravings throughout, images of scenes and activities in the world news at the time, images of manufacture of Armstrong gun at Woolwich, cricket matches. Civil war in America. NZ..... More
London: London Illustrated News, 1848. Folio. Hardcover. Half calf, spine broken, worn. Pagination erratic. Hundreds of engravings. Amazing array of social history, politics, electric light, etc. New Zealand information on emigration and colonisation, account of a fire in Government Hose in Auckland, fine engravings of Auckland Islands. Sold with all..... More
London: Religious Tract Society, 1901. 8vo. Pictorial Cloth. 8vo. Frontispiece plate & illustrations in text. Original brown decorative and pictorial cloth. Neat gilt stamp on front board. A very good complete copy in crisp original cloth. More
London: Hurst, 1865. 8vo. Half Calf. 8vo. Frontispiece, title vignette. Contemporary half calf. Neat gilt stamp on spine. A very good complete copy in contemporary binding. A rare work full of interest. 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: Allen, 1878. 1st Edition. 8vo. Half-Morocco. pp. xii, 344. Folding map on linen of Eastern Turkistan and neighbours, the front of which is very clean. Contemporary half morocco, minor rubbing but not on spine. Neat gilt stamp on spine and front board. A good complete copy of a rare..... More
London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher & co, 1842. 4to. Half-Morocco. 3 volumes. Folding map & 121 steel engraved views by Bartlett Purser and Allum. Contemporary half morocco and cloth with leather labels on front boards. A fine complete copy in the original binding. More
London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher & co, 1842. 4to. Half Morocco. (c.1842.) 4to. 3 vols (in 1).114 plates, 2 maps.In contemporary half morocco. First eight pages of Vol. I.not bound in including the first 5 plates. A handsome copy in fine contemporary binding with the plates in fine condition. More
London: 1878. 8vo. Hardcover. pp 120, 5 adverts. Original cloth. INcldues New Zealand content, plus America and Asia, Egypt. Illustrations in text. Very good copy. More
London: Samson Low, 1883. 1st Edition. 8vo. Half Morroco. 2 vols. Plates (some folding on linen), illustrations, maps (two folding on linen). Contemporary fine half morocco. 8vo. Neat gilt stamp on spine and front board. A notable well illustrated account of a journey through Southern China into Burma in the..... More
London: London Illustrated News, 1854. Folio. Hardcover. Original half calf, reasonably sound, fold out plates ragged at hinges in some cases, spine worn, good condition. Contains information on the Crystal Palace, the Crimean war, steamship fleet, military images, troops. NZ content includes a long article analysing emigration figures to Australia..... More
London: London Illustrated News, 1851. Folio. Hardcover. Original cloth showing wear, reasonably sound. Contains information on the Crystal Palace including large folding image. NZ content includes engravings of the settlement of New Plymouth and surroundings including Crofton Park, Omata District, Waitera River and Mokau river with accompanying text on the..... More
London: Blackie, 1904. 8vo. Cloth. Folding map. Contemporary original cloth. Some foxing. Neat gilt stamp on front board. A good complete copy in original cloth. More
London: Fisher, 1835. ROBERTS, Emma. 4to. Hardcover. 2 vols. Coloured frontispiece & 61 engraved plates & 2 vignettes on the title pages. Occasional foxing. Original quarter maroon roan and cloth boards. AEG. An exceptionally good and complete copy of this rare work. More
London: Thos. De La Rue, 1880. 8vo. Half Morocco. 2 Volumes. Vol I, pp xxxii, 432; Vol II, pp 403. Red half morocco binding with raised bands and gilt panelling to spines. Some slight edgewear to corners. Gilt crest to front boards and lower spines, no other markings. Marbled endpapers..... More
London: Moxon, 1840. 8vo. Quarter Calf. Pp. 82. Frontispiece map. Quarter calf and marbled boards, c.1900. 8vo. A very good complete copy. More
London: T Passenger, 1682. Folio. Hardcover. 6th edition. 4 vols in 1. Pp. [12], 303, [1], 226, [2], 230, [2], 162 + index [19+1]. Engraved, illustrated title page but no maps. Contemporary calf boards. Neatly re-spined in matching early 19th C. calf, rubbed on raised bands. Note: The 4 books..... More
London: Straham, 1867. 1st Edition. 8vo. Half Morroco. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt.. Vol 1 lacks title page. A handsome 1st edition set in early half calf. More
Amsterdam: Chatelain, 1735. Small 8vo. Hardcover. 2 vols. 2 frontispiece & 4 folding maps. Contemporary full calf & gilt on spine A very handsome, near fine copy in original binding, of the rare 1st edition. More
London: G G & J Robinson, 1798. LA PEROUSE, Jean François de Galaup. Unbound. Orig hand-coloured engraving showing Great Pacific Isand (New Zealand is shown as 'Zealand'). Free-floating & protected by mylar. Size: 538mm x 430mm. A very handsome map. More
