The New Zealand Wars, 1820-1872
Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 2013. Number 487 in the Osprey Men-at-Arms series, this volume covers 'the two major 19th-century wars between the British settlers in New Zealand and the indigenous Maori'. More
Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 2013. Number 487 in the Osprey Men-at-Arms series, this volume covers 'the two major 19th-century wars between the British settlers in New Zealand and the indigenous Maori'. More
Auckland, Random House New Zealand Ltd, 1997. More
Auckland, Random House NZ, 2008. 'Equipped with worn Brewster Buffaloes received from a departing RAF squadron, the unit faced a steep learning curve keeping the aircraft operational and developing effective fighter tactics. By January 1942 No. 488 Squadron was experiencing frequent air combat with Japanese aircraft over Singapore' (rear cover)..... More
[Melbourne], The Vintage Sports Car Club of Australia, 1948 and 1949. The first number states it is 'the first issue ... in its new form'. Bound with 'NZ Sports Car Club Bulletin', Volume 3, Number 2, December 1945 to Volume 3, Number 8, December 1947. Octavo, seven issues, each 16..... More
Auckland, Exisle Publishing Limited, 2015. More
Falmouth, The Barcliff Advertising and Publishing Co., Ltd., [1949]. More
London, The Folio Society, 1978 (first thus). Selected, with an introduction, by Jane Miller. More
Christchurch, Souvenir Art Publishing Co. (Printed by Horace J. Weeks Limited), 1906. A 'work combining both the useful and beautiful, showing the commercial enterprise of the Colony, and depicting at the same time some unrivalled beauty spots' (Introduction). More
Auckland, Collins, 1973. More
Wellington, George Didsbury, Goverment Printer, 1891. A presentation copy, inscribed on the half title 'A. Morton Esq., F.L.S., with kind remembrances from the author. Dunedin, Feb 8th/92'. More
The photograph is inscribed in ink 'Yours Ever, Lloyd'; the date '20-11-44' is written inside the front cover. More
All riders, place-getters and dividends paid for the seven-race event are inserted in either indelible pencil or ink. Some fugitive printing has been neatly overwritten in ink. The 'Rules of Racing' at the foot of the second page are instructive: '1. Catchweights in all events; blankets & surcingle - no..... More
Napier, Venables Print (for Napier Borough Council), 1919. Napier-born Percy Valentine Storkey (1893-1969) has signed the card above his portrait: 'P.V. Storkey Capt. 19th Bn. AIF'. Signatures of the mayor, H. Hill, and two others are also present. 'On 7 April 1918 the 5th Brigade, of which the 19th Battalion..... More
The artwork is signed in the image 'W.E.W. Lewis' (Ted Lewis, whose autobiography, 'I Was No Soldier - An Artist's War Diary' was published in 2001). More
An unusual grouping, with a variety of cap badges and headgear (Australian, New Zealand and British); the majority of the soldiers sport a white hat-band, indicative of the personnel of an officer cadet unit, of which there over 20 in the UK during the First World War (information courtesy of..... More
Offered with the similar program for the fiftieth anniversary of the commemoration, held on 12 February 1950. Signs of use and age; a decent copy. [2 items]. More
London, Melville & Mullen, 1906. Not least, reflections on the Horn Scientific Expedition (which the author organised, equipped, and accompanied for the early stages). Provenance: Edward Charles Stirling, with his pictorial bookplate ('Gang forward') on the front pastedown. Sir Edward Charles Stirling (1848-1919), eminent SA surgeon, scientist and politician, was..... More
Wellington, Reed, 1983. With numerous illustrations, 37 full-page and full colour. More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1959. Signed by Harold A. Lindsay on the front free endpaper. 'Two Australian anthropologists, Norman Tindale and Harold Lindsay, making full use of their long study of the subject, have constructed a vivid, fascinating story of these early Maori people of whose later days Melville wrote in..... More
Dunedin, Otago Museum, 1968/ 1967, 1968, 1970 and 1973. Otago Museum Bulletin Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4; another two parts were issued later. [4 items]. More
Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer, 1910. Provenance: the Chamber of Mines of Victoria (with a contemporary inkstamp on the front cover); a much later presentation plate from The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is mounted on the front pastedown. More
Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer, 1907. Provenance: the Chamber of Mines of Victoria (with a contemporary inkstamp on the front cover); a much later presentation plate from The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is mounted on the front pastedown; a small unused card pocket is mounted on the verso..... More
Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer, 1906. Provenance: the Chamber of Mines of Victoria (with a contemporary inkstamp on the front cover); a much later presentation plate from The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is mounted on the front pastedown; a small unused card pocket is mounted on the verso..... More
Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer, 1905. Provenance: the Chamber of Mines of Victoria (with two contemporary inkstamps on the front cover); a much later presentation plate from The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is mounted on the front pastedown; a small unused card pocket is mounted on the rear..... More
Wellington, Richard Alexander McKay for the Wellington Club of Printing House Craftsmen, August 1940. Number 292 of 600 copies. More