London, Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1842. Theophilus Heale (1816-1885), 'Surveyor and Judge of the Native Land Court.... On 22 January 1840 he arrived at Wellington, in command of the "Aurora", bringing the first settlers of the New Zealand Company.... [In this book] he levelled some pertinent criticisms against the Company's..... More

London, Richard Bentley, 1854. Malone, a ship's paymaster, was 'appointed to HMS "Fantome", going to the Australia and New Zealand station ... from 1850-53. Having seen all parts of the Australian colonies - having mixed in every society - and having formed an impartial judgment as to their several merits..... More

London, George Philip and Son, [circa 1877?]. The overall heading on the map is 'Polynesia', and there are in fact 10 individual maps (three of them inset on the map of New Zealand). Other areas featured include the Galapagos, Sandwich, Mariana, New Hebrides, Friendly and Society Islands. The National Library..... More

Nelson, Printed by R. Lucas & Son, 'Evening Mail' Office, for the Publisher, H.D. Jackson, [1890, first edition]. More

Auckland, Upton, Williams and Norgate, 1892 (fourth edition). With the armorial bookplate of the New Zealand author and photo-historian, Frederic Hardwicke Knight and the contemporaneous ownership signature of John. W. Hay. Some photocopied ephemera is loosely inserted. More

Wellington, John MacKay, Government Printer, June 1896. With many significant articles on Maori history and culture, and the exploration, geology, botany and zoology of New Zealand. More

Invercargill, [The Author], 1899. More

Melbourne, Pater, 1902. An independent account by the American evangelist of the whole missionary field "of Heathendom... in its actual condition, operations, modes of organization, instruction, and efforts, its different peculiarities, its needs, its difficulties..." Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Thursday and Friday Islands, New Guinea, the Phillipines and (naturally) Australia..... More

[Auckland], Messenger Print, [circa 1910?]. An early New Zealand edition of this much-reprinted Mormon tract, which appears to have been first published circa 1880. See 'A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930' (second edition, 2004): this item seems to be a variant of 5506c (not noting the rear cover catalogue). More

London, Cassell, 1921. Dated 1921, and with the pencilled ownership details ('Athelney') and signature (all twice) of Edgar Bristow Hughes (1866-1951). On 9 acres 'Athelney' was built in 1858 by P. D. Prankerd; Herbert Bristow Hughes (1821-1892) bought the house for his wife in 1864; Edgar Bristow Hughes purchased the..... More

London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1927. An Auckland, New Zealand, setting. More

(Wellington), NZ Government ... 1933. More

Melbourne, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, [c1934] (second edition). More

Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1939. Not least, Scandinavian migration to Queensland. More

Auckland, printed for Miss I. Oldfield and C.R. Howell, [1945, circa June]. The second page is headlined 'An Atrocity at Home. The Case of Harold McAuley'. The leaflet decries the ill-treatment of McAuley, a 'Conscientious Objector who has been in Detention Camp or in Prison since January, 1942'. The title..... More

Christchurch, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1950 (third impression)/ 1946. 'The incorrect pronunciation of Maori place names will inevitably cause the extinction of the Maori language'. More

London, British Museum, 1953. More

Auckland, The Pilgrim Press, 1956. More

Wellington, Glover/ Mermaid Press, 1957. More

Auckland, Whites Aviation, 1960 (new, expanded, edition)/ [1957]. An important pictorial record; this expanded second edition boasts some 100 more pages of aerial views. Loosely inserted is a pamphlet, 'North Otago 1968. A Blueprint of Industrial Power and Potential' (Auckland, 1968), featuring large number of aerial photos by the author..... More

London/ Melbourne, University of London, the Athlone Press/ Melbourne University Press, 1964. With the original receipt made out to T.G.[H.] Strehlow loosely inserted. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology Number 27. More

Wellington, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1965. More

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1966. The author was Reader in English at Adelaide University, so it is no surprise to find that the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow, and his inscription 'University of Adelaide 29 March, 1966' is followed by the autograph of the author, inscribed 'Adelaide, 4 May..... More

Wellington, A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1967/ 1963. More

Wellington, Reed, 1968. More