ANTIQUARIAN BOOK AUCTION 1 OCTOBER 2015
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ANTIQUARIAN BOOK thursday 1 october 2015 • 12 noon START AUCTION SCHEDULE New Zealand Historical
Lot 1 - 65
New Zealand Regional
Lot 66 - 98
Maori History & Folklore
Lot 99 - 145
Travel incl Antarctic Exploration
Lot 146 - 189
Natural History
Lot 190 - 197
Antiquarian Lot 198 - 227 Literature incl Childrens & Illustrated
Lot 228 - 328
Military & War
Lot 329 - 377
Sports, Leisure & Pastimes
Lot 378 - 387
Art, Antiques & Architecture
Lot 388 - 416
Autographs & Documents
Lot 417 - 421
The Folio Society
Lot 422 - 445
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ABBREVIATIONS BP BRDS COL DEC DJ ED
Book Plate Boards Colour Decorative Dust jacket Edition
EP F FA FEP FX G
End paper INSC Inscription Fine ILLUS Illustrated Fair LITHO Lithographic Front end paper MRBLD Marbled Foxing ND Not Dated Good RP Reprint
PIC PL PORT SIG TP
Pictorial Plate Portrait Signature Title Page
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An Old Colonist Colonial Experiences or, Incidents And Reminiscences of Thirty-Four Yaers In New Zealand. Chapman & Hall, London, first edition, 1877. Brown cloth. Spine cocked, small rip, ends and corners frayed, ex owners stamp and sig to FEP’S. $40 - 80 Bagnall, A. G. Wairarapa - An Historical Excursion Hedley’s Bookshop Ltd, Masterton, first ed, 1976, green cloth with jacket (torn). $60 - 90 Bracken, Thomas Musings In Maoriland With an Historical Sketch by Sir Robert Stout and preface by Sir George Grey. Arthur T Keirle, Dunedin, first edition, 1890, dec brown cloth gilt. $50 - 80
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Brees, S. C. Pictorial Ilustrations of New Zealand Williams, London, first edition, 1847, blind stamped red cloth gilt. Usual FX and discolouration, spine rebacked. $400 - 600
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Brett, Henry White Wings Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade, 1850 to 1900. First edition,Volume 1, 1924, blue cloth, grubbly, some FX. $30 - 50
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Brett, Henry White Wings (Vols I & II) Fifty Years Of Sail in the New Zealand Trade, first editions,Vol I, 1924,Vol II, 1928,Vol II with DJ. $100 - 200
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Chapman-Taylor, J. W. A Collection of Ephemera Relating To “Woodlands” Silverstream, Upper Hutt. Comprising, original Woodlands book containing 8 black and white photographs of the interior rooms and gardens, each signed with initials and titled by Chapman-Taylor, also, glass plate photos, various images taken from these plates, an original A2 plan of Woodlands, original signed photo titled “The Rosary”, preliminary sketches, specifications and contract, various permits, quotes, legal letters, etc, etc. A rare collection. $1000 - 2000 Churchouse, Jack Leonard Robertson, the Whangaroa & La Bella (2 copies) The Experiences of Leonard Robertson in Intercontinental Sailing Ships, with Special Reference to the Scow Whangaroa & Barquentine La Bella, first ed, 1982, oblong folio with jacket, fine copy. $40 - 80 Cowan, James The New Zealand Wars (Vols I & II) A History Of The Maori Campaigns And The Pioneering Period, first editions,Vol I, 1922,Vol II, 1923, red cloth. $200 - 400 Cowan, James The New Zealand Wars and the pioneering period (2 vols) r/p 1983, red cloth, DJ. $40 - 80 Cowan, James The New Zealand Wars and the pioneering period (2 vols) r/p 1983, red cloth, DJ, G+. Also, Brighter Britain or Settler And Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay,Volume I, 1882. $50 - 80
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Garran, Hon. Andrew Picturesque Atlas Of Australasia (3 Volumes) Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company, Limited, 1886, large folio, 800 engraved plates, text illustrations and some coloured maps, half burgundy morocco, some old staining, FX, otherwise G. $150 - 250 Gudgeon, Thomas Wayth The Defenders of New Zealand H Brett, Auckland, first ed, 1887, half burgundy morocco, dec cloth gilt, spine cocked and taped. $50 - 100
Gudgeon, Thomas Wayth The Defenders of New Zealand H Brett, Printer and Publisher,Auckland, first edition, 1887, half burgundy morocco, dec gilt boards. $80-120
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Earle, Augustus A Narrative of a Nine Months Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Together with A Journal Of A Residence in Tristan D’Acuna, An Island Situated Between South America And The Cape Of Good Hope. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, first edition, 1832. 371pp, illus with frontis port, and 5 other plates including one folding (torn lower right corner), half tan calf, some foxing, else G $500 - 800
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Dillon Bell, F, & Young, Frederick Jun. Reasons For Promoting The Cultivation of the New Zealand Flax Smith, Elder And Co, Cornhill, London, 1842, 34pp, plus 4pp of other published works, rebound, near F. Also, A Comprehensive Dictionary of the New Zealand Tongue, manuscript pages from Mr Colenso’s Maori-English Lexicon (specimen of), 1882. $30 - 50
Gudgeon, Thomas Wayth The Defenders of New Zealand H Brett, Auckland, first ed, 1887, half morocco, spine lacking 1 inch lower corner, sunned, FA $40 - 80
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Guthrie-Smith, H Tutira The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station. Third ed, 1953, light blue cloth, no DJ. $30 - 60 Hill, Richard S Policing the Colonial Frontier (3 Vols) The History of Policing in New Zealand,V.R.Ward, Govt Printer, Wellington, 1986. The Colonial Frontier Tamed. $40 - 80 Hill, Susanne & John Richard Henry of Resolution Island first edition, 1987, light blue cloth, with DJ, fine copy. Rare. $100 - 200 Alexander Hogg (Publisher, c1782) A Curiously Arched Rock on the Coast of New Zealand A New Zealand Chief whose head is ingeniously Tatawed and a Subaltern Warrior of the same Country. Engraved for Millar’s New Complete Universal System of Geography. A fine copy. $100 - 200 Leys, Thomson (Editor) Early History of New Zealand First edition, Brett’s Historical Series, 1890, half blue morocco, dec cloth gilt, TP torn and lacking, FEP taped. Also, Lays of the Land of the Maori and Moa by Thomas Bracken, first ed, 1884, and Flowers of the Free Lands by Thomas Bracken, first ed, 1877. All with ex-libris owners stamp. $100 - 150 McNab, Robert Historical Records of New Zealand,Vol I John Mackay, Govt Printer, 1908, brown cloth. $30 - 50 McIntyre, David W (Editor) The Journal of Henry Sewell 1853-7 (2 Vols) First edition, 1980, both fine with DJ. Also The Richmond Atkinson Papers by Guy H Scholefield, 2 volumes with DJ. $50 - 100
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Muldoon, R. D. The New Zealand Economy A Personal View, signed copy, first ed, 1985, with jacket. $25 - 40
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Muldoon, R. D. The New Zealand Economy A Personal View, signed copy, first edition 1985, with jacket. $25 - 40 Pascoe, John (Editor) Mr Explorer Douglas Reed, Wellington, third ed, 1969, with DJ. $25 - 40
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Siers, Judy The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman- Taylor first edition, 2007, signed by the author, folio, F. $60 - 100
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Thomson, A. S. The Story Of New Zealand (2 Vols) Capper Press, 1974, with DJ, G+ - F. $40 - 80
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Thomson, Arthur S The Story of New Zealand (2 Vols) Past and Present - Savage and Civilized. John Murray, London, first edition, 1859, large frontis folding map to Vol I, blind stamped original green cloth, FX, spines poor, boards well worn, FA. $50 - 100
Polack, J New Zealand (2 Vols) Being A Narrative of Travels And Adventures During A Residence In That Country Between The Years 1831 & 1837. Capper Press, 1974, maroon cloth, DJ. $40 - 80
Polack, J Manners & Customs of the New Zealanders (2 Vols) Capper Press, 1976, maroon cloth, DJ, both fine copies. $50 - 100 Porter, Frances (Editor) The Turanga Journals New Zealand 1840-1850. Letters and Journals of William and Jane Williams Missionaries to Poverty Bay. Price Milburn for Victoria University Press, first edition, 1974, blue cloth, DJ. Also, Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating To Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, edited by Phyllis Mander-Jones, 1972. $40 - 80 Rongokea & Daley Tivaevae, Portaits of Cook Islands Quilting. First edition, 1992, softcovers, slipcase, fine copy. Also, 3 Maori related booklets circa 1940/50s. $25 - 40
Saunders, Alfred History of New Zealand ( Vols I & II) Volume I, From the arrival of Tasman in Golden Bay in 1642, to the second arrival of Sir George Grey in 1861. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, Christchurch. C1896.Volume II, From the discovery of the islands by Tasman in 1642, to the deaths of Hon. John Balance and Sir William Fox in 1893. Smith, Anthony, Sellars, And Co, Ltd, c1899. Both green cloth, no DJ. $80 - 120
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Thomson, Arthur S The Story Of New Zealand (2 Vols) Past and Present - Savage and Civilised. John Murray, London, first ed, 1859, frontis of Vol I, torn, original blind stamped green cloth. $75 - 125 Vaile, V Earle Pioneering The Pumice Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, first ed, 1939, green cloth, gilt crest for Wanganui Collegiate School, and prize label to FP. $25 - 40 von Haast, H. F. The Life & Times of Sir Julius von Haast A New Zealand Pioneer, first ed, 1948, blue cloth, DJ. $40 - 60
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Von Hochstetter, Dr Ferdinand New Zealand Its Physical Geography, Geology And Natural History with special reference to the Results of Government Expeditions in the Provinces of Auckland and Nelson. J. G. Cotta, Stuttgart, first edition, 1867, coloured frontis, blind stamped green cloth with oval gilt vignette, FX, fly leaf detached. $300 - 500 Von Hochstetter, Dr Ferdinand New Zealand Its Physical Geography, Geology And Natural History. J. G. Gotta, Stuttgart, first edition, 1867, illus incl coloured frontis port, blind stamped green cloth with pictorial gilt oval, TP heavily foxed, else G $300 - 500 Wakefield, Edward Jerningham Adventure In New Zealand From 1839 to 1844 With some account of the beginning of the British colonization of the islands, edited by Sir Robert Stout. Whitcombe And Tombs Limited, first edition, 1908, green cloth, no DJ. Also, Residence in New Zealand 1842 by Charles Heaphy, Hocken Library Facsimile, No 7, 1968. Captain William Hobson first Governor Of New Zealand by Guy H Scholefield, 1934. 2 with BP of Percy James Hoyland White, New Plymouth. $40 - 80 Wakefield, Edward Jerningham Illustrations To Adventure In New Zealand Facsimile edition of 500, published in 1968 by A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, half green morocco, with original packing box. Near fine. $150 - 300
42A Weld, Fred. A Esq Notes on New Zealand Affairs Comprising A Sketch of it’s Political History in reference especially to The Native Question, etc ,etc. Edward Stanford, London, first edition, 1869. 83pp, original boards, gilt titled spine, minor FX, else G-G+, Rare. $100 - 200 6
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43 (-) The New Zealand Herald, 1863 Vol I - No.1, Auckland, Friday, November 13, 1863. $100 - 200 44 Various Six NZ Historical Volumes The Six Colonies of New Zealand by Sir William Fox, Hocken Library Facsimile No 12, 1971. Remarks On New Zealand 1846 by Robert Fitzroy, Hocken Library, No 10, 1969. New Zealand’s First Capital by Ruth M Ross, 1946, soft card wraps. Information Relative To New Zealand by J Ward, Capper Press, 1975, (ex-libris). Richard Taylor Missionary Tramper by A. D. Mead, first ed, 1966. Charles Dickens and New Zealand, first ed, 1965, limited edition number 201/750. All G+ - F. $50 - 100 45 Various Six Modern Volumes On The Treaty of Waitangi Comprising 2 hardback and 4 softcover volumes, all in fine condition. $50 - 100 46 Various Four Biographies of Historical NZ Figures Busby Of Waitangi, H. M.’s Resident at New Zealand, 1833-40 by Eric Ramsden, first ed, 1942. The Life And Times Of Sir Julius Vogel by R. M. Burdon, The Caxton Press, 1948. The Life of Henry Williams Archdeacon of Waimate by Hugh Carleton, r/p 1948. King Dick - A biography of Richard John Seddon, 1955. All 4 cloth, no DJ. $50 - 100 47 Various Four Historical Volumes Busby of Waitangi, H. M.’s Resident at New Zealand 1833-40 by Eric Ramsden, first ed, 1942. England And New Zealand - From Tasman to The Taranaki War by A. J. Harrop, first ed, 1926. New Zealand Rulers And Statesmen 1840 to 1885 by William Gisborne, first ed, 1886. The Constitutional History and Law of New Zealand by J Hight and D Bamford, 1914. All cloth, no DJ. $40 - 80
48 (-) NZ Year Books & Parliamentary Volumes (5) New Zealand Official Year Books, 1911 and 1898, brown cloth gilt. Parliamentary Debates 1856 to 1858 compiled by Maurice Fitzgerald. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840-1949 edited by Guy H Scholefield. Land Legislation and Settlement in New Zealand by W. R. Jourdain, 1925. $40 - 80 49 Various Four Historical Related Volumes From Tasman To Marsden by Robert McNab, first ed, 1914. Marsden And The Missions - Prelude To Waitangi by Eric Ramsden, first ed, 1936. Contributions to The Early History of New Zealand (Settlement of Otago) by Thomas Morland Hocken, first ed, 1898. The Colonisation Of New Zealand by J. S. Marais, first ed, 1927. All 4 cloth, no DJ. $40 - 80 50 Various 12 Various Titles Including, A New Zealand Naturalist’s Calendar by Geo M Thomson, first ed, 1909, blue cloth, no DJ. Glimpses of New Zealand Scenery by Blanche Edith Baughan, first ed, ND, green cloth, no DJ. Along the Road - A Book of New Zealand Life and travel by Elsie K Morton, 5th imp, 1930, spine taped. Later Notes from a Backblocks Hospital by G. M. Smith, first ed, 1949, with DJ, and 7 others. $50 - 100 51 Various Five Capper Press Historical Reprints The Adventures of a Surveyor in New Zealand and the Australian Diggings by John Rochfort, late Government Surveyor, N. Z. 1974. Sketches in New Zealand With Pen and Pencil by W Tyrone Power, 1974. Narrative of a Residence in Various Parts of New Zealand by Charles Heaphy, 1972. Thames Gold Fields Miners Guides, 1975. Northern Approaches - A History of the Waitati, Waikouaiti, Palmerston, Dunback, Moeraki, Hampden and surrounding districts by C. W. S. Moore, 1978. All with DJ. $75 - 150
52 Various Carton Of NZ Vols, Reprints Etc Including, The Long White Cloud, The Greenstone Door, Old New Zealand, Check To Your King, Poenamo, The Farthest Promised Land etc. $40 - 80 53 Various Carton Of NZ/Maori Related Volumes 9 titles, including Ratana, A Dictionary of the Maori Language, Te Riri Pakeha, A Southern Gentry, etc. $40 - 80 54 Various A Carton of Books on Capt Cook, Polynesia Etc. 25 hardback and soft back volumes. $80 - 150 55 (-) 3 NZ Related Aeronautical Booklets International Air Race 1953 Across The World - England To New Zealand, official souvenir programme. Wellington Airport Official Souvenir Brochure, October 1959. High Adventure - from balloons to Boeings in New Zealand. $20 - 40 56 (-) Proposed Waitemata-Manukau Canal Reports And Plans re Whau And Tamaki Routes. Auckland Harbour Board, December, 1908. Published by Wilson & Horton, Auckland, 1908. 66pp, large rear folding coloured map, 3 stamps to FEP for J. A. McLeod & D. A. & L. D. McLeod, with accompanying letter and newspaper articles relating to them, green cloth, gilt title, G+. A rare volume. $150 - 250 57 Various Six NZ Titles Nine Months Residence in New Zealand in 1827, by Augustus Earle, 1909. An Account Of The Settlements Of The New Zealand Company by The Hon. H. W. Petre, Capper Press, 1971. Journal Kept in New Zealand in 1820 by Ensign Alexander McCrae. Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N. I. , N. Z. a Centennial Memorial by J. A. Mackay. White Wings by Henry Brett., and The Anzac Book. $50 - 100
58 Various Four Policing Related Volumes Authority To Protect - A Story Of Policing In Otago. Born To Obey. The Peoples Force - A History of the Victoria Police. Without Fear or Favour - 150 years Policing Auckland 1840-1990. $100 - 150 59 (-) Garrison Artillery Drill for New Zealand, 1904 John Mackay, Govt Printer, Wellington, 1905.138pp, red cloth, ex owners libris stamp to FP, else G. A very rare copy. $100 - 200 60
White, Leo Whites Airviews of New Zealand Special edition, second edition. Also, Whites Pictorial Reference of New Zealand. $40 - 80
61 (-) Michael Joseph Savage New Zealand Labour Party, Wellington, 1940, 16pp, brown card wrappers, gilt title, cord ties. $40 - 70
64 (-) 15 N. Z. Railways c1909 Architectural Drawings Relating To Auckland All large unframed diagrams and elevation plans for cheifly Parnell Bridge, also Newmarket Engine Shed, Station Building Remuera, etc. Some as found with edge damage, many signed by The Chief Surveyor of the day. Rare $1000 - 2000
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62 (-) Interesting Large NZ Related Scrapbook Including a South Islands 1884 Goldfields Guide, in Chinese, Queen Victoria Jubilee proclamation to the people of NZ, numerous newspaper cuttings, letters, photographs, etc, many of an ecclesiatical nature. $150 - 300
63 (-) Facsimiles of the Declaration Of Independence and the Treaty Of Waitangi George Didsbury, Govt Printer, Wellington, 1877, plain stiff cards, spine poor, pasted in magazine photos, 2 sepia photos of Waihi redoubt 1879 and the old church Russell. With 2 smaller Treaty booklets and The Evening Post, No 1, February 8, 1865. $40 - 60
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Brainsby, A. T. Auckland Provincial Handbook 1925-1926 N.Z. & South Seas Exhibition. Also, Souvenir Westland, with pasted in folding coloured map frontis. A Thing of Beauty, Parish All Saints Church, Palmerston North, limited edition, 9/1000. $40 - 80 Bruce, A Selwyn The Early Days of Canterbury Simpson & Williams Limited, Christchurch, first edition, 1932, red cloth, sunned, else G. Also, Early Runholding In Otago by Herries Beattie, first edition, 1947, softcovers. $80 - 120 Cameron, W. N. A Line Of Railway The Railway Conquest of the Rimutakas, signed first edition, 1976, yellow cloth, no DJ. Also, Rails Out Of The Capital by Hoy. $50 - 80 Chilton, Chas (Editor) The Sub-Antarctic Islands of New Zealand (2 Vols) John Mackay, Govt Printer, Wellington, 1909, dark blue cloth gilt, G+ $100 - 200 Christie, Rev John History of Waikouaiti Printed by The Christchurch Press Company Limited, second edition, 1929, printed wrappers, ex owners names insc to cvoer and TP. $40 - 70
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Gilkison, Robert Early Days in Central Otago first ed, 1930, blue cloth, also, Pioneering In South Otago, including the Districts of Balclutha, Kaitangata, Clinton, Owaka and the Clutha Valley by Hon. F Waite, first ed, 1948, red cloth, DJ. $30 - 60
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Hamilton, G. A. History of Northern Southland first edition, ND, softcovers. $20 - 40
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Herbert, Arthur Stanley The Hot Springs Of New Zealand H. K. Lewis & Co, Ltd, London, first ed, 1921, maroon cloth, no DJ. Also, 3 booklets,Views of the Hot Lake District Rotorua, published by A Boyd, Iles Kodak Film Store, Rotorua. Guide To The Hot Lake District Rotorua, published by Iles, Rotorua. Beautiful New Zealand, 1840-1940. $40 - 80
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McLintock, A. H. The History of Otago The Origins and Growth of a Wakefield Settlement, Capper Press ltd, 1975, maroon cloth, DJ, fine copy. Also, Catalogue of the Hocken Library, Dunedin, 1912, green cloth gilt, G+. $40 - 80 Maling, Peter Bromley Early Sketches And Charts of Banks Peninsula 1770-1850 Reed, Wellington, first edition, 1981, number 1 of 500, folio, navy blue quarter leather, cloth with slipcase, fine copy. $120 - 180 Raynal, F. E. Les Naufrages ou Vingt Mois Sur Un Recif Des Iles Auckalnd Quatrieme Edition, Librairie Hachette Et Cie, Paris, 1877, full red morocco. $50 - 100 Saunders, B. G. R. & Anderson, A. G. Introducing Manawatu 1964, softcovers, also A Short History of New Zealand $20 - 40
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Skinner, W. H. Reminiscences Of A Taranaki Surveyor Thomas Avery & Sons Limited, New Plymouth, 1946, this volume Capper Press Ltd, 1984. Also, From Plymouth to New Plymouth by R. G. Wood, first ed, 1959 $40 - 80 Stafford, D. M. Landmarks of Te Arawa (Volumes I & 2) Volume 1: Rotorua.Volume 2: Rotoiti, Rotoehu, Rotoma. Reed, 1994 & 1996, both fine with glossy DJ. $50 - 80 Stokes, Evelyn A History Of Tauranga County Dunmore Press, first edition, 1980, with DJ. Also, Gold Mining At Waihi 1878-1952 by J. B. McAra, revised ed, 1988 and Crisis At Kerikeri by Andrew Sharp, signed copy. $40 - 80 Wakefield, Edward New Zealand Illustrated The Story of New Zealand and Descriptions of it’s Cities and Towns, also (by various writers) The Natural Wonders of New Zealand (Past and Present). Printed and Published by A. D. Willis, Wanaganui, first edition, 1889, oblong folio, lacking spine and taped. $500 - 800 Washbourn, H. P. Reminiscences of Early Days R Lucas & Son (Nelson “Mail”), Ltd, Printers, 1933, grey cloth, top 1 inch of TP clipped, with a letter from the author to a Miss Mellett of Nelson. $30 - 50
82 (-) The Cyclopedia of New Zealand Volume 5 - Nelson, Marlborough, And Westland Provincial Districts, first ed, 1906, half morocco, leather scuffed, sunned and spine splits. $50 - 100 83 (-) The Cyclopedia of New Zealand Volume 6 - Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, And Wellington Provincial Districts. Printed by Horace J Weeks, Christchurch, 1908, half morocco. $80 - 120
84 (-) The Cyclopedia of New Zealand Volume I, Wellington Provincial District. Published by The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, Wellington, 1897, half morocco. $100 - 150 85 Various Four Regional/Historical Volumes The Riddle Of The Kaipara by T. B. Byrne, 1986. The French At Akaroa by T. Lindsay Buick, Capper Press, 1980. The Southern Districts Of New Zealand by Edward Shortland, Capper Press, 1984. The Kapiti Coast by W. C. Carkeek, Capper Press, 1978. All 4 are fine copies with DJ. $60 - 100 86 Various Three NZ Regional Histories An Account Of The Settlement Of New Plymouth by Charles Hursthouse Jun, Capper Press, 1975, with DJ. A Centennial History of Tauranga by W. H. Gifford & H. B. Williams, Capper Press, 1976, with DJ. The Founding Years in Rotorua A Histroy of Events to 1900 by D. M. Stafford, 1986, with DJ. All 3 fine. $50 - 100 87 Various A History of Canterbury (3 Volumes) volume I To 1854.Vol II General History, 1854-76 and Cultural Aspects, 1850-1950.Vol III 18761950, all maroon cloth with DJ, G+. $50 - 80 88 Various 3 Taranaki Related Volumes The History of Taranaki by B Wells, Capper Press, 1976. An Account of the Settlement of New Plymouth by Charles Hursthouse Jun, Capper Press, 1975. Sergeant, Sinner, Saint & Spy - The Taranaki War Diaries of Sergeant William Marjouram, R.A., edited by Laurie Barber, Garry Clayton and John Tonkin-Covell, Random Century, 1990. All 3 with DJ. $50 - 100
89 Various Three Taranaki Related Volumes Pioneer Medical Men of Taranaki 1834 to 1880 by W. H. Skinner, Capper Press, 1984, blue cloth, no DJ, fine copy.The Establishment of the New Plymouth Settlement in New Zealand 1841-1843, by J Rutherford and W. H. Skinner, second ed, 1969, green cloth, no DJ, near fine. History of Whangamomona County , edited by J Garcia, first ed, 1940, blue cloth. $50 - 100 90 Various Five South Island Volumes Banks Peninsula, Cradle of Canterbury by Gordon Ogilvie. Dusky Bay - In The Steps Of Captain Cook by A Charles Begg and Neil C Begg. Port Preservation by A. C. Begg and N. C. Begg and Early Fiordland by Hall-Jones. And Mr Surveyor Thomson, Early Days in Otago and Southland. $40 - 80 91 Various 15 Volumes on the Kapiti Coast Waikanae Past & Present. By Chris and Joan Maclean. Kapiti by Chris Maclean. The Celebration History of the Kapiti District. 8 Golden Coast directories. Kapiti Bird Sanctuary. In View Of KapitiHadfield of the Kapiti Coast. Kapiti Coast, History of New Zealand’s Paraparaumu Beach, Paraparaumu Airport and Kapiti Island. $50 - 100 92 (-) The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Vol 6. Taranaki, Hawkes Bay And Wellington Provincial Districts, first ed, 1908, half morocco, poor front board. $50 - 100 93 (-) The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Vol 5. Nelson, Marlborough, And Westland Provincial Districts, first ed, 1906, half morocco. $80 - 120
94 Various Six Nelson & District Volumes Collingwood - A History of the Area from Earliest Days to 1912 by J. N. W. Newport. Footprints Too - Further Glimpses into the History of Nelson Province by J. N. W. Newport. The Jubilee History of Nelson, by L Broad. Old Tasman Bay by J. D. Peart. Difficult Country - An Informal History of Murchison by Margaret C Brown. The Trial of the Maungatapu Murderers in Nelson in 1866. The latter with printed wrappers, the others all with jackets. $50 - 100 95 Various Six Nelson/Marlborough Volumes Port Nelson - Gateway To The Sea by W. H. Parr. Old Marlborough by T. L. Buick. Courage And Camp Ovens - Five Generations At Golden Bay by Enga Washbourn. The Trial of the Maungatapu Murderers in Nelson in 1866. Murchison, New Zealand by John R Grigg, 1947. Nelson Province 1642-1842 by A. N. Field. $50 - 100 96 Various Nine Volumes Including Nelson, Westland, Wellington related etc. $40 - 80 97 Various 11 Volumes Including, The French at Akaroa, Westland, gold rushes etc. $40 - 80 98 (-) Farms And Stations of New Zealand (2 Vols) Cranwell Publishing Company Limited, 1957, blue cloth, no DJ. $30 - 50
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Andersen, Johannes. Maori Place-Names also, Personal Names and Names of Colours, Weapons, and Natural Objects. The Polynesian Society, Wellington, first ed, 1942, red cloth. $60 - 100
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Alexander, Colonel Sir James E Incidents of The Maori War, New Zealand in 1860-61 Capper Press, Christchurch, 1976, fine copy with DJ, also, Two Peoples One Land, the New Zealand Wars by Matthew Wright, first ed, 2006, softcovers. $40 - 80 Best, Elsdon (edited by Jeff Evans) Notes on the Art Of War. Reed publishing, 2001. Also, Two Worlds - first meetings between Maori and Europeans 1642-1772 by Anne Salmond,Viking, 1991. Both fine copies with DJ. $30 - 60 Best, Elsdon Three Volumes The Maori Pa, 1975. The Whare Kohanga And Its Lore, 1975. Maori Storehouses And Kindred Structures, 1974. All with DJ, all fine copies. $50 - 100 Best, Elsdon Three Volumes Fishing Methods And Devices Of The Maori, 1977. Forest Lore Of The Maori, 1977. Maori Agriculture, 1976. All with DJ, all fine copies. $50 - 100
Best, Elsdon Three Volumes The Maori Canoe, 1976. Games And Pastimes Of The Maori, 1976. The Stone Implements Of The Maori, 1974. All 3 with DJ and near fine. $50 - 100
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Best, Elsdon Maori Storehouses and Kindred Structures Houses, Platforms, Racks and Pits used for Storing Food etc. Dominion Museum Bulletin No 5. John Mackay, Govt Printer, 1916, blue cloth. $50 - 100 Best, Elsdon The Maori (2 Volumes) The Polynesian Society, Wellington, 1941. Memoirs of the Polynesian Scoiety,Volume V, red cloth, both near fine. $100 - 200 Binney, Judith Encircled Lands Te Urewera 18201921 Bridget Williams Books, r/p 2010, fine copy with DJ. $50 - 100 Binney, Judith Redemption Songs A Life of Te Kooti, Arkirangi Te Turuki. Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, r/p 1996, fine copy with DJ. Also, Stories Without End - Essays 1975-2010 by Judith Binney, softcovers. $50 - 80 Cowan, James The New Zealand Wars (Volumes I & II) Reprints with amendments, 1983, red cloth, DJ, both very fine copies. $50 - 80 Cowan, James The Adventures of Kimble Bent A Story of Wild Life in the New Zealand Bush, Capper Press, 1975, maroon cloth, DJ, fine copy. $40 - 80 Day, Kelvin Contested Ground - Te Whenua I Tohea The Taranaki Wars 1860-1881, Huia Publishers, first edition, 2010, cream cloth gilt, glossy pictorial jacket, fine copy. $50 - 100 Downie Stewart, W Mr Justice Richmond and the Taranaki War of 1860 A Great Judge Vindicated, first ed, 1947. Also The History Of Taranaki by B Wells, Capper Press, Christchurch, 1976. $40 - 80
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Henderson, Atholl, Binney, Judith, Harris, Aroha Tangata Whenua - An Illustrated History Bridget Williams Books, fine copy. $50 - 80
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Kelly, Leslie G Tainui The Story Of Hoturoa And His Descendants, Capper Press, 1986, fine copy with DJ. $50 - 100 Kelly, Leslie G (Te Putu) Tainui The Story Of Hoturoa And His Descendants. The Polynesian Society (Inc), Wellington, Capper Press reprint, 1980, maroon cloth, DJ, F. $50 - 100 King, Michael Moriori - A People Rediscovered Viking, first edition 1989, fine copy with DJ. $40 - 80 King, Michael Moriori A People Rediscovered Viking, first ed, 1989, signed and insc by the author, green cloth, DJ. $30 - 50 Martin, Sir William Notes on Sir William Martin’s Pamphlet Entitled the Taranaki Question, 1861, Hocken Library Facsimile, No 8, 1968. Also, The New Zealand Native Rebellion, Letter To Lord Lyttelton 1864 by Henry Sewell, Hocken Library Facsimile, no 14, 1974, both fine. $40 - 80 Maunsell, Joshua Ko Te Tahi Wahi O Te Kawenata Tawhito He Mea Whakamaori Mai No Te Reo Hiperu. Na Te Komiti Ta Paipera, No Ranana, 1848. Maunsell’s translation, printed by T. R. Harrison, London, first edition, 1848, text in Maori, printed in double columns, original black cloth, ex owners insc and libris stamp to FEP. Also, Outline Of Scripture, Maori Version, c1881, Society fro Promoting Christian Knowledge. $100 - 200
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Ollivier, Isabel & Hingley, Cheryl Early Eyewitness Account of Maori Life, Vols 1,2,3. Vol 1, Extracts from journals relating to the visit to New Zealand of the French ship St Jean Baptiste in December 1769 under the command of J. F. M. de Surville.Vol 2, Extracts from the Journals of the ships Mascarin and Marquis de Castries 1772.Vol 3, Extracts from the Journals of the ships Recherche, Esperance and Coquille 1793 and 1824. Silver cloth with cover titles in black and gilt. A fine set. $50 - 100 Padovan, Dr Renzo & Barrow Terence Te Ika A Maui - A Portfolio Of Maori Art Being a Collection of 26 Handmounted and signed lithos drawn at the Dominion Museum, 1955, large folio. $50 - 100 Robley, Major-General Moko or Maori Tattooing with 180 illustrations from drawings by the author and from photographs. This edition for Reed, 1969, maroon cloth, slipcase, F. $100 - 200 Macdonald, Christina Medicines of the Maori Intro by Hammond Innes, Collins, Auckland, r/p 1974, green cloth, DJ. $30 - 50 Sorrenson, M. P. K. (Editor) Na To Hoa Aroha ( 3 Volumes) The correspondence between Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck, 1929-50. Auckland University Press, Vol I, r/p 1988,Vol 2, first ed, 1987, Vol 3, first ed, 1988, decorative pink cloth, all G+ $50 - 100 Stafford, D. M. Te Arawa A History Of The Arawa People, Reed, r/p1994, fine copy with DJ. $40 - 80 Swainson, William New Zealand And The War Smith, Elder And Co, London, 1862, this volume, Capper Press Ltd, Christchurch, 1984. Also, The Taranaki Question by Sir William Martin, Hocken Library, Facsimile No 3, 1967. Both fine. $40 - 80
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White, John Maori Superstitions, A Lecture Delivered for the Young Men’s Christian Association in the Old Fellows Hall, June 20th, 1856. Printed by Williamson nd Wilson, Auckland, 1856. 33pp, printed pink paper wrappers. Cover torn 4cm by 1cm upper right, general foxing, otherwise ok. A very rare copy. Also, Spiritual And Mnetal Concepts Of The Maori by Elsdon Best, booklet, 1954. $100 - 150 William Colenso Press Book of Daniel and Jonah in Maori Language First edition 1840. The eight chapters of the book of Daniel, and also the book of the prophet Jonah. The word of the bible and also the book of Jehovah the true God. First printing in the Maori language. At Paihia: Printed at the Missionary Press, 1840. Ko nga upoko ewitu o te pukapuka a te Poropita a Raniera: me te Pukapuka ano hoki a te Poopita a Hona: He Kupa ra no Paipera, ko ia hoki te Pukapuka a IHOWA te Atua pono. Katahi ka taia te reo Maori. No Paihia: He mea ta I te Perehi o nga Mihanere 1840. Soft card wrappers, with ties, untrimmed with bolts unopened at the head of the leaves for pages 9-12, 13016, 21-24, 25-28, and 29-32, minor FX, chiefly top edge, else G+. A rare example of one of the earliest publications in Maori printed with the hand cranked Stanhope Press operated by William Colenso in the Bay of Islands 1834 to 1842. An almost identical edition, also published in 1840, does not include Daniel verses 1 through 7, hence ‘e witu’ in the title of this present work, and ‘e’ono’ in the other edition. $800 - 1200
133 Various Six Volumes On The Maori Wars First In Arms - New Zealand’s Colonial Fighters Taranaki War 1860-61 by Murray Moorhead, first ed, 2004, softcover. The Origins Of The Maori Wars by Keith Sinclair, r/p 1980, softcovers, and 4 various historical facsimile booklets by Kiwi Publishers, Christchurch. $50 - 100
137 Various Three Maori Related Volumes Tamihana The King Maker by L. S. Rickard, facsimle edition, softcovers. The Rebellion of Hone Heke by Thomas Lindsay Buick, Capper Press, 1976, fine copy with DJ. Aureretanga - Groans Of The Maoris by G Rusden, Capper Press, 1975, fine copy with DJ. $40 - 80
134 Various Five Maori/Maori War Related Volumes The Life and Times of Patuone by C. O. Davis, Capper Press, 1974. Kinds of Peace - The Maori People After The Wars 1970-75 by Keith Sinclair, 1991, softcover. The Origins Of The Maori Wars by Keith Sinclair, second ed, 1961, green cloth, DJ. The Maori King by John Gorst, r/p, 1959, DJ. The Maori People And Us by Norman Smith, c1948, DJ. $50 - 100
138 Various Three Maori Related Volumes Books In Maori 1815-1900, Nga Tanga Reo Maori, compiled in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Reed Publishing 2004. Te Wai Pounamu The Greenstone Island by Herry C Evison, 1993, softcovers. Greenstone Trails - The Maori Search for Pounamu by Barry Brailsford, 1984, softcovers. All 3 fine. $60 - 100
135 Various Four Volumes on The Maori Wars & People Some Home Truths re The Maori War 1863 To 1869 On The West Coast Of New Zealand by LieutCol. Edward Gorton, New Zealand Militia, Capper Press, 1984, fine copy. Captain Joseph Nias and The Treaty Of Waitangi - A Vindication by T. D. H. Hall, first ed, 1938, ex-libris, green cloth, G+. England And The Maori Wars by A. J. Harrop, limited and only ed of 1000, 1937, navy blue cloth, no DJ, BP of Percy James Hoyland White of New Plymouth. Sketches in New Zealand by W Tyrone Power, Capper Press, 1974, maroon cloth, DJ, fine copy. $50 - 100 136 Various 4 Volumes Maori Wars, Bush Fighting, Bush Rangers, Etc Bush Fighting by Major-General Sir James Alexander, Capper Press, 1973, fine copy with DJ. Te Riri Pakeha The White Man’s Anger by Tony Simpson, softcover. Forest Rangers - A History of the Forest Rangers during the New Zealand Wars, by Richard Stowers, softcovers. The Maori Wars by Tom Gibson, first ed, 1974, fine copy with DJ. $50 - 100
139 Various Four Volumes, NZ Wars Etc The Waikato War 1863-4, by John Featon, Capper Press, 1971, no DJ. The War In New Zealand by Sir William Fox, Capper Press, 1973, with DJ. Making Peoples - A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century by James Belich, 1996, with DJ. Ghosts of Gondwana - The History of Life in New Zealand by George Gibbs, r/p 2007, with DJ. All four fine. $60 - 100 140 Various Six Various Maori Volumes Te Kooti by W Hugh Ross. Te Puea A Biography by Michael King. Maori Witchery by C. R. Browne, first ed, 1929. The Coming Of The Maori by Sir Peter Buck. Maori Poetry, the singing word by Barry Mitcalfe. Rangitane - A Tribal History by J. M. McEwen. $40 - 80 141 Various 14 Various Maori Related Volumes Including, Rua and the Millenium, Te Rauparaha, The Origins of the Maori War, The Shadow Of The Land, The Great New Zealand Myth, etc, etc. $50 - 100
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142 Various Four Maori Related Booklets A Bibliography of Printed Maori To 1900. Portraits Of Tattooed Warrior Chiefs Of New Zealand. Famous Maori Songs (2 volumes). $30 - 60 143 Various 8 Various Titles Tales of Tamati, Book Of The Maori Chiefs, Hauhau - The Pai Marire Search for Maori Identity, Taua Musket Wars, land wars, or tikianga, Whakapohane, Race Conflict In New Zealand 1814-1865, The Maori As He Was, Nga Waka O Nehera the first voyaging canoes. $50 - 100 144 Various Two Maori & Three Pacific Volumes Maori Lore - The traditions Of The Maori People with the More Important Of Their Legends by James Izett, 1904. Who are the Maoris by Alfred K Newman, first ed, ND. Some Experiences Of A New Guinea Resident Magistrate by Captain C. A. W. Monckton, first ed, 1921. The Riddle of the Pacific by J Macmillan Brown, first ed, 1924. American Indians In The Pacific by Thor Heyerdahl. $60 - 120 145 (-) Colonial Museum Bulletin, No I A.Hamilton, Director. John Mackay, Govt Printer, Wellington, 1906, 410pp, half blue morocco. $50 - 100
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Bonney, T. G. & Others Picturesque Europe (2 Volumes) Both illustrated throughout with steel engravings, bound in half black morocco. $100 - 200 Chapman, Roger G & Duval, Cleveland T Charles Darwin 1809-1882 A Centennial Commemorative. Nova Pacifica, Wellington, 1982. Folio, soft card covers. $40 - 80 Cook, Captain James Captain Cook’s Voyages Round The World Containing The Whole of his Discoveries. Published by J Robins & Co, London1820, embellished with engravings, frontis port, vignette on TP of A Hippah, OR Village, built on a perforated rock in New Zealand, rebound. Also, The Journals of Captain James Cook edited by J. C. Beaglehole, Hakluyt Society. Both vols G+ $250 - 350 Davis, William Heath Seventy Five Years In California John Howell Books, San Francisco, 1967, with DJ. Also, The Mikado or The Town of Titipu by Sir W. S. Gilbert, with eight illustrations in colour by W Russell Flint and drawings in pen and ink by Charles E Brock, first ed, 1928, dec black cloth, also, 4 booklets on Indian forest railways c1920s. $30 - 60 Forbes, Rosita El Raisuni The Sultan Of The Mountains His Life Story. Thornton Butterworth Ltd, London, first ed, 1924, red cloth, sunned. Also, Emin Pasha - The Rebellion at the Equator by A. J. Mounteney-Jephson, 1890, and Forty-One Years In India by Lord Roberts of Kandahar, first ed in one volume, 1898. $50 - 100 Heath, Arthur H Sketches Of Vanishing China Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, first edition, 1927, yellow cloth, DJ. $40 - 60
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Thomas Reed & Co, Ltd, Publishers Reed’s House Flags And Funnels Of English And Foreign Steamship Companies And Private Firms. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, 1912, red cloth. $50 - 100
159 Various Nine Volumes on Cook,Tasman, Pacific, Polynesia Etc Hardback and softcovers. $40 - 80 160 Various Four Hakluyt Society Titles Searching For Franklin, The Land Arctic Searching Expedition 1855. The Discovery Of The South Shetland Islands 1819-1820. The Third Voyage Of Martin Frobisher To Baffin Island 1578. The Arctic Whaling Journals Of William Scoresby The Younger,Vol I, The voyages Of 1811, 1812 and 1813. All four with DJ, and all fine copies. $50 - 100
161 Various Four Hakluyt Society Titles Peter Van Den Broecke’s Journal Of Voyages To Cape Verde, Guinea And Angola 1605-1612. The Discovery Of River Gambra By Richard Jobson 1623. The Travel Diary Of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant 1647-1656. Joao Rodrigues’s Account Of Sixteenth Century Japan. All four with DJ, all fine copies. $50 - 100 162 Various Four Hakluyt Society Titles The Malaspina Adventure 1789-1794, Vol I, Cadiz to Panama and Vol II, Panama To The Philippines. The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine De Bougainville 1767-1768. The Central Australian Expedition 1844-1846, The Journals Of Charles Sturt. All four with DJ, all fine copies. $50 - 100 163 Various Six Hakluyt Society Titles Comprising, 4 volume set of The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold and 2 volume set of The Purchas Handbook. $50 - 100 164 Various Six Hakluyt Society Titles All with DJ. $50 - 100 165 Various Six Hakluyt Society Titles All with DJ. $50 - 100 166 Various Six Hakluyt Society Titles 3 with DJ. $40 - 80 167 Various Five Hakluyt Society Titles All 5 with DJ, and all fine copies. $50 - 100 168 Various Four Hakluyt Society Titles & Other Hakluyt volumes with DJ, other volume is Yoyage Round The World with selected sketches of Voyages To The South Seas, North And South Pacific Oceans, China, etc by Edmund Fanning, r/p 1970. $50 - 100
169 Various 12 Volumes on Cook, Mawson, Scott, Etc All hardback, 10 with DJ. $50 - 100 170 Various 6 Volumes On Captain Cook Including Cook And New Zealand, all G+. $40 - 80 171 Various 8 Volumes on Cook, Scott and Shackleton Scott’s Last Expedition (2 vol set). Scott’s Men. Scott Of The Antarctic. Shackleton’s Captain - A Biography of Frank Worsley. Zimmermann’s Third Voyage Of Captain Cook. Bibliography of Captain James Cook. Shackleton & the Antarctic Explorers. $50 - 100 172 Various 7 Volumes on NZ & The Pacific Including, The French at Akaroa, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, Aphrodites Island, Man’s Conquest of the Pacific, etc. $50 - 100 173 Various Early Eye Witness Accounts of Maori Life 1 Extracts from the Journals of the Ship St Jean Baptiste, 1769. Also, Extracts from the Journals of the ships Recherche, Esperance and Coquille 1793 and 1824, both oblong folio, no DJ, F. $40 - 80 174 Various Four Maritime/Seafaring Volumes The Last Of The Windjammers, Volume I, by Basil Lubbock, r/p, 1975. New Zealand Tragedies, Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters by Gavin McLean, softcovers. Master of Cape Horn, W. A. Neilson 1839-1929, The story of a Square-rigger Captain and his World by Hugh Falkus. Phantom Fleet - the scows and scowmen of auckland by Ted Ashby. $40 - 80
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175 Various Three Volumes on Captain James Cook They Sailed With Cook, by Marguerite Johnson. Captain Cook’s Voyages of Adventure, by Heron Books, full blue leather gilt. The Voyages of Captain Cook by Rex and Thea Rienits. $30 - 50 176 Various The Heart Of The Antarctic Etc Being The Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, new and revised ed, popular ed, 1910, blue cloth, ex-libris. Also, The Great White South by Herbert G Ponting, 9th imp, 1930, blue cloth, childrens stickers to FEP’s. Into The Frozen South by Scout Marr, of the Quest Expedition, r/p 1923, green cloth $30 - 60 177 Various 4 Titles, Shackleton, Cherry-Garrard Etc Cherry - A Life of Apsley CherryGarrard by Sara Wheeler. The Voyages of the Discovery - The Illustrated History of Scott’s Ship by Ann Savours. The Endurance Shackelton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, with the remarkable unpublished photographs of Frank Hurlet by Caroline Alexander. South - The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-17. The Life and $40 - 80 178 Various 10 Volumes on Antractic Exploration Including, Aurora Australis, 1908-09 by E. H. Shackleton. Antarctica The Heroic Age by George Finkel. Tragedy and Triumph - The Journals of Captain R. F. Scott’s Last Polar Expedition. Of Ice and Men by Sir Vivian Fuchs, etc. $50 - 100 179 Various 13 Volumes on Antarctica 180 Various 5 Volumes Relating to Shackleton Including The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton by Hugh Robert Mill. Nimrod - Ernest Shackleton and the Extraordinary Story of the 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition by Beau Riffenburgh, etc. $50 - 100 14
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196 (-) The Famous Parks And Gardens of The World Described and Illustrated. T Nelson And Sons, London, first ed, 1880, dec and pictorial green cloth gilt. Also, Some English Gardens by George S Elgood & Gertrude Jekyll, first ed, 1904. $50 - 100 197 Various Seven NZ Nat Hist/Ornithological Volumes Mutton Birds & Water Birds. Birds of the Water, Wood & Waste. Bird Life On Island And Shore. The Book Of The Huia. New Zealand Birds. Plants Of New Zealand. The Story Of The Kauri. $80 - 150
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Fenning, D Spelling Book Or A New And Easy Guide to the English Language, by D Fenning, Somers & Co, London, first ed, 1865, illus with eng frontis, orig blind stamped cloth, sunned, else G. Rare $100 - 200 Gessner, Salomon Mort D’Abel Translated by Hubert, illustrated by Monsiau, with coloured stipple engravings, including frontis. Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, Paris, 179 ,text in French, folio, half blue morocco, mrbld EP’s. $100 - 200
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Grote, George A History Of Greece (12 Volumes) New Edition, John Murray, London, 1869, finely bound in full tree calf with dec gilt border, raised spine bands, dec gilt cmpts, mrbld EP’s and fore-edges. Rare complete set in fine order. $400 - 700 Herschel, Sir John F. W. The Cabinet Cyclopaedia A New Edition, London, 1837. Also, The Physical Geography of The Sea by M. F. Maury, 1858. The Eclectic Review,Vol IV, Part I, 1808. $50 - 100 John Pearson, Lord Bishop of Chester An Exposition of the Creed The Fifth Edition, Revised, and now more Enlarged. Printed by J. M. for John Williams, London, 1683. Full calf, (worn and lacking), boards detached, TP in red and black. $100 - 200
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Joseph II (1741-1790) Papal Dictate An 18th century Papal dictate from Joseph II, concerning problems related to offspring, legitimate and illegitimate and the practices of matrimony. 20pp, signed on the back page, pages held by blue tape. $50 - 100 Keith, Thomas A New Treatise on the Use Of The Globes or, A Philosophical View of The Earth And Heavens. A New Edition, Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans, London, 1844, rebound, respined, name and date in ink to TP, folding plates to the rear. $50 - 100 Keppel, Capt The Hon. Henry, R. N. A Visit to the Indian Archipelago in H. M. Ship Meander (2 Volumers in 1) Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K. C. B. With Illustrations by Oswald W Brierley. Richard Bentley, London, first edition, 1853.illus incl large folding rear map, half green claf, mrbld brds EP’s and fore-edges. G $300 - 500 Macfarlane, Charles A Memoir of the Duke of Wellington Illustrated by John Gilbert. George Routledge, & Co, London, first edition, 1853. Full red calf, gilt lines, raised spine bands, mrbld EP’s and fore-edges, near F. $50 - 80 Melville, Herman Typee A Peep At Polynesian Life during a four months residence in A Valley Of The Marquesas. The revised edition with a sequel, George Routledge & Co, London, 1850, half calf, general wear, some FX. $100 - 200 Milton, John Paradise Lost, A Poem In Twelve Books This volume to book VI, printed for J & R Tonson and S Draper, etc, etc, London, 1747, full calf, rebacked spine. $50 - 100
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Moore, James. Esq, F.A.S. Monastic Remains and Ancient Castles in England and Wales Drwan on the spot by James Moore and executed in aquatinta by G. J. Parkyns. Printed by George Stafford, London, 1792, 120pp, most plates with original tissue guards, finely rebound in full calf with tooled decoration, and gilt titled and decorated spine. $100 - 200 Percy, Thomas Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (3 Vols) Printed for J Dodsley, London, 1767, full tan calf, 5 raised bands, gilt dec cmpts, mrbld EP’s and fore-edges. $100 - 150 Perkins, William The Works Of That Famous And Worthy Minister Of Christ In The Universitie Of Cambridge. The Second Volume. Printed at London by John Legatt, printer to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1613. Ttile page with engraved decoration, holed and edge nibbled. Original well worn full calf, lacks spine strip. A well used but complete copy. $200 - 400
215 Plutarch The Third Volume of Plutarch’s Lives Translated from the Greek by Several Hands. Printed for Jacob Tonson, London, 1703, full calf, leather worn around borders, spine joints loose and frayed at extremities. $50 - 100 216 217
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Wanley, Humphrey A Catalogue of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts (Two Volumes) purchased by authority of Parliament for the use of the publick and preserved in the British Museum, London, 1759. not paginated, quarter bound with leather spine and corners, leather poor, tatty at head and tail, frontis engs of Robert Harley, FX, heavier at the end of Vol 2, else G $1000-1500
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224 (-) The Fiftieth Annual Report of the Royale Humane Society, 1824 Printed for the Society, London, 1824, illus, half calf, front board detached, also first edition of An Inquiry into the Nature And Causes of the Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith, 1840, poor binding, old water staining. $30 - 60 225 (-) A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library deposited in the British Museum, London, 1802. xvi, 618pp plus index, card boards, rebacked in 2008, with limp manilla case and a note by the restorer detailing the work carried out, G+ $150 - 300 226 (-) The Historical Register,Volume XII, For the Year 1727 An Impartial Relation of all Transactions, Foreign and Domestick, etc ,etc. Printed and sold by R Nutt, London, 1727. Full tooled calf, raised spine bands, G+ $80 - 120 227 Various Four Various Antiquarian Volumes Death Made Comfortable or the Way to Die Well, by John Kettlewell, 1702, cloth, front board detached. Solitude Sweetened by James Meikle, fourth ed, 1811, half calf. The Messiah from the German of Frederic Gottlieb Klopstock, 1838, full calf. Meditations and Contemplations by the Rev James Hervey, ND, full calf, front board detached. $50 - 100
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232 Aristophane Lysistrata Illustrations by Alain Bonnefoit, The Odeon Paris, 1975, limited to 243 numbered copies. One of the 125 printed on vellum of Lana. Features 20 original lithographs by Alain Bonnefoit including 10 colour plates and 10 double page line drawings. Fremcn translation by M Arnaud, according to the revised and corrected Greek text. Housed in a yellow watered silk folio clamshellbox with gilt profile illustration on cover, signed in penicl by the author, a fine copy. $400 - 600 233 234
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Baxter, James K Blow,Wind of Fruitfulness The Caxton Press, Christchurch, first edition, 1948, (The Caxton Poets No 2), 51pp, stiff boards with jacket, nibbled top edge else G+, rare. $100 - 200 Baxter, James K Beyond The Palisade The Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1944, (there is a hand written note stapled in the front, questioning the publication year date). 40pp, printed green paper covered boards. Rare. $75 - 125
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Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness Intro by Leo Gurko, illus by Robert Shore. Arranged by Richard Ellis for the Members of The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1969, signed by the illustrator, limited to 1500 numbered copies, quarter cream leather, dec boards, black top edge,glassine jacket and slipcase, F. $200 - 300 Fitzgerald, Edward Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam With 12 full page colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Garden City Publishing Co, Inc, New York, De Luxe Edition, 1937, ex owners BP. Gold coloured cloth with foliate decoration in red and green, slipcase with pastedown illustration to front. G+ $70 - 120 Fleming, Ian Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Jonathan Cape, London, first edition, 1966, with DJ, near fine copy. $50 - 100
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Lee, John A. Five Books, including Signed & Inscribed Works Political Notebooks, inscribed on DJ and TP, also page 162 with a biographical note in his hand. Rhetoric at the Red Dawn, with letter to historian Jim Henderson in Lee’s hand and signed by Lee, also editors acknowledgement note. Simple on a Soapbox, signed on TP. Mussolini’s Millions, a novel. Shining with the Shiner, signed on TP. $50 - 100 Lovecraft, H. P. ,& Derleth, August The Lurker at the Threshold Arkham House, first edition 1945, from a limited run of 3000, dark blue cloth with a fine original dustjacket. A novel started by Lovecraft, though after his death in 1937 the task of completing it fell to August Derleth. $50 - 100 Marsh, Edward (Translator) Forty-Two Fables of La Fontaine William Heinemann, London, 1924, limited edition number148/165, signed by Marsh, most pages uncut, BP of Geo A Zabriskie, quarter vellum, blue paper covered boards, custom chemise and quarter red morocco slipcase, F $200 - 300
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271 Plato Lysis, Or Friendship The Symposium Phaedrus Translated from the Greek, with Introductory Analyses, by Benjamin Jowett, with a preface by Whitney J Oates and illustrated by Eugene Karlin. Printed for The Members Of The Limited Editions Club At The Press Of A. Colish, 1968, signed by the illustrator, limited to 1500 numbered copies. Quarter cream leather, brown cloth, gilt emblem on front cover, glassine jacket and slipcase, F. $150 - 250
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Reed, A. H. The Story of The English Bible Signed by the author, booklet, 1958, also, Wyclif-Purvey Gospels and The Growth and Influence of The English Bible. $25 - 40 Rossetti, William Michael (Editor) New Poems of Christina Rossetti First ed, 1900, also, Dame Wiggins of Lee and her Seven Wonderful Cats, illus by Kate Greenaway, 1885, Feeding the Mind by Lewis Carroll, first ed, 1907 and Poems of Love and Affairs by David Hardman, signed and inscribed by the author. first ed, 1949. $50 - 100
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Sam Hunt, Gary McCormick, Ian & Judith Lonie Eight Volumes Naked And Nameless, Street Poems and Poems For The Red Engine , both by Gary McCormick. Drunkards Garden, Time To Ride and Bracken Country, all by Sam Hunt. Courting Death and Recreations, both by Ian Lonie. Earth Into Moon by Judith Lonie. All first editions, all printed wrappers. $50 - 100 280 Sapper Uncle James’s Golf Match Hodder & Stoughton, ND, c1932, first edition thus, with DJ. Rare. Also, Pigs is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler, r/p, with DJ. $100 - 150 281
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Sargeson, Stack, Gee & Sinclaire Four NZ Literary Volumes Speaking For Ourselves, edited by Frank Sargeson, The Caxton Press, 1945, printed pictorial wrappers. In My Father’s Den by Maurice Gee, Faber and Faber, first edition, 1972, with jacket. Lend Me Your Ears, Essays by F Sinclaire, The Progressive Publishing Society, Wellington, printed at The Caxton Press. , r/p 1943. Through Canterbury and Otago with Bishop Harper in 185060 by the Rev. J. W. Stack, The Nags Head Press, Christchurch, 1972, number 31/200. $50 - 100
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Sewell, Anna Black Beauty His Grooms And Companions. The Autobiography Of A Horse. Translated from the Original Equine. Jarrold And Sons, 3 Paternoster Buildings, first edition, 1877. In rare variant of Carter’s” B “ binding, original brick red cloth, horse head facing right, bridle and reins in gilt, decorative floreate surround in black and gilt, similar spine decoration. Original chocolate brown endpapers, frontis after C Hewitt, 247pp, plus 8 pages of adverts, with later full green morocco box. Minor wear to spine and spine extremities, very slight cocking,small stain spot on cover, light FX to prelims, otherwise a tight clean copy. An extremely rare first edition, unrestored and in the most sought after Variant B binding, the rarest of the three known. According to Sotheby’s only 2-3 copies have been offered at auction in the last 30 years. $5,000 - 8,000 285
Sewell, Arthur Catherine Mansfield Critical Essay Te Unicorn Press, Auckland, first edition, 1936, with inscription on TP, paper wrappers. Also, Wellington Harbour by Denis Glover, first edition, 1974, inscribed by the author on TP. $40 - 70
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Sterne, Laurence The Life And Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman With Illustrations by Rowland Wheelwright, George G Harrap & Co Ltd, London,1926, limited edition, number 450 of 1000, signed by the illustrator, brown cloth, gilt lines. Also, The Tin Drum by Grass, 1962, with DJ and Otago University Capping Book, 1950. $30 - 60
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Vonnegut, Kurt Player Piano Macmillan & Co, Ltd, London, first edition, 1953. One of the remaining 2000 left from an original run of 3000, reputedly 1000 were pulped, red cloth with DJ, jacket spine sunned, some FX, else Rare. $200 - 400
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302 Various Four Various Volumes Address In Commemoration Of The Inauguration Of George Washington As First President Of The United States by Melville Weston Fuller, 1890. Furs And Furriery by Cyril J Rosenberg, 1927, upper right corner clipped on HT, TP, preface and contents pages. “Ask Mamma” or The Richest Commoner in England, with illus by John Leech, 1872. Faults and How to Find Them, Motor Car Failures And Their Remedies Fully Explained, by J. S.V. Bickford, 1911. $50 - 100 303 Various 5 NZ Historical & Literary Volumes Plume Of The Arawas, first ed, 1930, red cloth, no DJ. Station Ballads by David McKee Wright, first ed, 1897. The Old Clay Patch, first ed, 1910. Graceless Islanders by M. H. Holcroft. Summer Fires And Winter Country by Maurice Shadbolt. $30 - 60 304 Various 12 Various Science Fiction & Other Novels All hardback, some with DJ. $50 - 100 305 Various Carton Of Nine Various Titles Including, Wonder Tales of Maoriland, History of the Crusades, Captain Cook’s Voyages, RASC & RCT, etc. $30 - 60 306 Various Carton of New Zealand Poetry Volumes Including, Glover, Fairburn, Joseph, etc, etc. $50 - 100 307 Various Large Carton of New Zealand Poetry Volumes & Novels writers include Denis Glover, Ian Cross, David Ballantyne, Ray Grover, M. K. Joseph, John A Lee, $100 - 200 308 Various Seven Caxton Press NZ Poetical Volumes including Hart-Smith, Duggan, Curnow, Mulgan, Stead, Hervey, Spear. $50 - 100 ANTIQUARIAN BOOK AUCTION
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Wagner, Richard The Ring Of The Niblung A Trilogy with a Prelude , translated into English by Margaret Armour, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. William Heinemann, first ed, 1912, dec gold cloth gilt, no DJ, FX, else G $150 - 200
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Boraston, Lt-Colonel, J. H. & Bax, Captain Cyril E. O. The Eighth Division In War, 1914-1918 The Medici Society Limited, London, 1926, dark blue cloth. Also, Operations Of War Explained And Illustrated by General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley, New Edition, 1907, red cloth. 1914 by Field-Marshal Viscount French of Ypres, second ed, 1919, blue cloth. $40 - 80 Byrne, Lieut. A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F. In The Great War 1914-1918, with maps and illustrations. Second edition, J Wilkie & Co, Dunedin. Blue cloth, no DJ. $80 - 120 Cody, J. F. 28 (Maori) Battalion Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45, War History Branch, D.I.A. Wellington, 1956, red cloth, no DJ, G+. $250 - 400 Crawford, John (Editor) No Better Death,The Great War Diaries and letters of William G Malone First edition, 2005, softcovers. Also, Freyberg’s Circus - Reminiscences of a Kiwi Soldier in the North African Campaign of World War II BY Noel “Wig” Gardiner, 1981, with DJ. Myth And Reality - The New Zealand Soldier in World War II, BY John McLeod, 1986 with DJ. All 3 fine. $40 - 80 Davin, D. M. Crete Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45, War History Branch, D.I.A. Wellington, 1953, red cloth, no DJ. Also, Australia In The War Of 1939-1945, Series One, Army,Volume II Greece, Crete And Syria, 1953, red cloth, no DJ. $40 - 80 Davin, D. M. Crete Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 193945, War History Branch, D.I.A., Weelington, 1953, red cloth, no DJ, G $40 - 80
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Drew, Lieut. H. T. B. The War Effort of New Zealand A Popular History of (a) Minor Campaigns in which New Zealanders took part: (b) Services not fully dealt with in the Campaign Volumes © The Work at the Bases. Whitcombe And Tombs Limited, Auckland, first edition, 1923, gold cloth, no DJ, G+. $40 - 80 Edmonds, Brigadier General J. E. Military Operations France And Belgium 1916-18, (4 Vols) Macmillan And Co, Limited, London, 1938, comprising, 3 boxes of folding maps and a volume of text, maps and appendices, with maps to the rear. All red cloth with brown paper jackets. Rare $150 - 250 Ferguson, Captain David The History of the Canterbury Regimant, N.Z.E.F. Whitcombe And Tombs Limited, Auckland, first edition, 1921, brown cloth, no DJ, ex-libris stamps to fly leaf, faded stamp and marks to cover. $80 - 150 George Philip & Son Ltd Dunkirk To Berlin, June 1940 - July 1945 A Map of the Historic Wartime Journeys undertaken by The Right Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, In Defence of the British Commonwealth and Empire, first edition. Also 2 copies of A Man Arose by Cecil Roberts, first edition, 1941. $40 - 70 Gillison, Douglas Royal Australian Air Force 1939-1942 Australian War Memorial, Canberra, first ed, 1962, blue cloth, DJ. Also, Royal New Zealand Air Force by Squadron Leader J. M. S. Ross, 1955, blue cloth, no DJ, ex-libris. The Royal New Zealand Navy by S. D. Waters, 1956, blue cloth, no DJ $40 - 80
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Gillespie, Oliver A The Pacific Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1952, red cloth, also, War Economy by J.V. C. Baker and No Bombs At All, Some Short Stories of The Royal Air Force by C. H. Ward-Jackson, with wood engravings by Biro and Anzacs At War by John Laffin. $50 - 80
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Idriess, Ion L Horrie The Wog Dog With The A.I.F. In Egypt, Greece, Crete And Palestine, written from the diary of Private VX13091 J. B. Moody, A.I.F. Angus And Robertson, r/p 1951, with rare DJ. Ex owners name to FEP. $50 - 100
Joslin, E. C., Litherland, A. R., Simpkin, B. T. British Battles & Medals Spink & Son, Ltd, 1988, fine copy, also, A Guide to Military Temperance Medals by David A Harris. And America’s Fighting Men by Peter Copeland, with 24 separate coloured plates and accompanying commnetary concerning the plates. $30 - 50 Kay, Robin Italy,Volume II From Cassino To Trieste Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1967, red cloth, DJ. $50 - 80 Lea, Peter A. Weekend Warriors A Brief History of the Hawke’s Bay Regiment, first ed, 1991, fine copy, also, Arms In The Service Of Queensland 1859-1901, typed facsimile. $20 - 40 Lord Mottistone (General Jack Seely) My Horse Warrior Hodder & Stoughton, r/p, 1934, blue cloth, no DJ. Also, With Pershing In France by Colonel James Fiske, World’s War Series,Volume 5, 1919, pictorial cloth. The Prisoners of Mainz by Alec Waugh, 1919. $100 - 150
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Markham, George Guns of the Empire Firearms of the British Soldier 18371987. First ed, 1990, with glossy jacket, F. Also, Of Dogs And Men Fifty Years In The Antarctic and Vol II of Scotts Last Expedition. $50 - 80 Moorhead, Murray First And Strong,The Wellington,West Coast And Taranaki Regimantal Story Signed first edition, fine copy with DJ. Also, To Play a Giant’s Part The role of the British Army at Passchendalele by Robert A Perry, first ed, 2014, softcovers, fine copy. Anzac - A Retrospect by Cecil Malthus. $60 - 100 Montgomery, Field Marshal The VIscount of Alamein Normandy To The Baltic First edition, signed on the FEP, Montgomery of Alamein F. M. 29 Oct 1953. with maps to front and rear pockets, red cloth, G+. $75 - 150 Murphy, W. E. 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-45, Historical Publications Branch, D.I.A., 1966, red cloth, DJ. $60 - 100
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Powles, Lieut-Col Guy The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine From material compiled by Major A Wilkie. White And Tombs Limited, Auckland, first edition, 1922, khaki cloth, no DJ, G+ $40 - 70
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Puttick, Lieutenant-General Sir Edward 25 Battalion Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, War History branch, D.I.A., Wellington, 1960, red cloth, DJ. $60 - 100
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Scoullar, LieutenantColonel J. L. Battle For Egypt,The Summer of 1942 Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45, War History Branch, D.I.A., Wellington, 1955, red cloth with DJ, G+ $50 - 80
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Skennerton, Ian & Richardson, Robert British & Commonwealth Bayonets First edition, fine copy. $40 - 60 Sinclair, W. D. 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 193945, War History Branch, D.I.A. Wellington, 1954, red cloth, remnant of DJ. $50 - 80 Stevens, MajorGeneral W. G. Bardia To Enfidaville Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1962, red cloth, DJ. $50 - 80 Stewart , Col. H. The New Zealand Division 1916-1919 A Popular History Based on Official Records, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1921, khaki cloth, no DJ. Also, Somme Battle Stories recorded by Captain A. J. Dawson, illus by Capt Bruce Bairnsfather. New Zealand At The Front, written and illustrated in France by the men of the New Zealand Division. Kitchener’s Army and the Territorial Forces. 1914 Field Service Pocket Book. $50 - 100 Stewart, Col H The New Zealand Division 1916-1919 A Popular History Based on Official Records. Whitcombe And Tombs Limited, Auckland, first edition, 1921, khaki cloth, DJ, jacket edges worn, else G+ $50 - 100 Taylor, Nancy M The Home Front (Volumes I & II) Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45, also The New Zealand People at War Political and External Affairs by F. L. W. Wood. All green cloth with DJ. $50 - 100 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - A Triumph First published 1935, Jonathan Cape, London, brown cloth gilt. Also, Revolt In The Desert, third impression with DJ. $50 - 100
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Waite, Major Fred The New Zealanders at Gallipoli Whitcombe And Tombs Limited, Auckland, first edition, 1919, khaki cloth, DJ, , jacket edges worn, else G+ $60 - 100 Walker, Ronald Alam Halfa and Alamein Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1967, red cloth, DJ. $50 - 80 Wigmore, Lionel The Japanese Thrust Australia In The War of 1939-45, red cloth, no DJ. Also, The Government nd The People 1939-41 by Paul Hasluck. And Australia in World Affairs. $40 - 60 Wyndham, Captain Horace Ginger - The Military Career Of Pte. Ginger Jordan B. E. F. Third imp, 1918, also, Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather, third imp, 1916 and Ginger Mick by C. J. Dennis. $30 - 50 Zaloga, Steven Armored Attack 1944 & Armored Victory 1945 (2) Both volumes relate to U.S. Army Tank Combat in the European Theater, from the D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of the Bulge to Germany’s Surrender. Stackpole Books, 2011, 2012, both fine copies with DJ. $40 - 80
367 Various Four WWI/Gallipoli Related Volumes The Path To Gallipoli - Defending New Zealand 1840-1915 by Ian McGibbon, 1991, softcovers. On The Fringe Of Hell - New Zealanders And Military Discipline In The First World War by Christopher Pugsley, 1991, softcovers. Te Mura O Te Ahi - The Story of the Maori Battalion by Wira Gardiner, 1992 with DJ. The Great Wrong War - New Zealand Society In WWI, BY Stevan Eldred-Grigg, 2010, WITH dj. All four volumes are fine. $60 - 100
368 Various Four Volumes, Gallipoli, Canada, Australia, Freyberg Gallipoli The New Zealand Story by Christopher Pugsley. Freyberg - Churchill’s Salamander by Laurie Barber and John Tonkin-Covell. Canada And The British Army 18461871, by C. P. Stacey. Australians at war in New Zealand by Frank Glen. All with DJ and G+ - F. $40 - 80 369 Various 7 War/Military Volumes Incl NZ Related. Freyberg’s Circus. Featherston Military Training Camp, 3rd ed, 1917. War Record. P.O.W. - The Untold Stories Of New Zealanders As Prisoners Of War. 3 volumes of Jane’s - All The World’s Aircrafts, 1949/50, 1951/52 & 1959/60. $50 - 100 370 (-) The Airman [10 Volumes] The monthly magazine of the Whenupai and Hobsonville R.N.Z.A.F. Stations, together with a felt pendant from R.N.Z.A.F. Hobsonville. $30 - 50 371 (-) The Kia Tupato The Official Organ of the Nineteenth Reinforcement, (Printed and Published at Sea on board T. S. Maunganui),Vol I, November 25. A WWI 2 page, double column soldiers newspaper, c1916-17. Rare copy in fine condition. $100 - 200 372 Various 12 Titles, Cheifly WWII Related Includes, NZEF, Rommel, Cassino, Tobruk etc. $50 - 100 373 Various Five WWI Related Volumes Comprising, Bill Gentry’s War, letters edited by Sally Mathieson and inscribed by her, softcovers. Camp Fire Yarns Of The Lost Legion by Col G Hamilton-Browne, Colonial Edition. General Headquarters 1914-1916 and its Decisions by General Von Falkenhayn. General Sir John Cowans, The Quartermaster General of the Great War by Major Desmond Chapman-Huston & Major Owen Rutter, 2 volumes. $50 - 100
374 (-) New Zealand Expeditionary Force Roll Of Honour The Great War 1914-1918. W. A. .G .Skinner, Govt Printer, Wellington, first edition, 1924. 358pp, illus, purple cloth, spine and edges sunned, else G. Rare $300 - 400 375 Various Fights & Furloughs, with six misc booklets Fights & Furloughs by A. S. Helm, with DJ. Small Arms Training pamphlet. The Battle of Britain. Combined Operations - 1940-1942. Manual of Map Reading. Return To The Attack, N.Z. Division in Action. 1939-1945 The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire. $50 - 100 376 Various Four WWII Volumes New Zealand Chaplains in the Second World War. Humorous Scottish War Stories. The Two Types by Jon. Murphy’s Moa and Other Xmas Sketches by Pat Lawlor. $40 - 70 377 Various Four RAF & RAAF Volumes Royal Air Force 1939-1945,Volumes II & III. RAAF Saga and RAAF Log, The RAAF At War. $30 - 60
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Chadwick, J Men Of Mark In The World Of Sport In New Zealand, with 250 illustrations. The Brett Printing And Publishing Co, Auckland, 1906, also Biggles Charter Pilot. $30 - 50 Lyndon, Barre Grand Prix Foreword by Earl Howe, epilogue by Cecil Kimber. John Miles, London, first edition, 1935, blue cloth gilt. $50 - 100 Masters, Read With The All Blacks In Great Britain, France, Canada & Australia 1924-5, Christchurch Press Company, softcard covers, also, Rugby In My Time, including A Gallery of Rugby Greats by Winston McCarthy. $60 - 100 ANTIQUARIAN BOOK AUCTION
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Taverner, Eric (and others) Salmon Fishing The Lonsdale Library,Volume X. Seeley, Service & Co, Ltd, London, 1931, brown cloth. $25 - 40 Warner, P. F. Imperial Cricket The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, London, first ed, 1912, illus with photogravures and colour plates, red cloth. $100 - 200 Wortley, Prof. J. The Horse (9 Volumes) Its Treatment In Health And Disease, With A Complete Guide To Breeding, Training nd Management. The Gresham Publishing Company, London, 1906, in art nouveau green cloth gilt binding. $100 - 200
384 Various 6 Social History, Political,& Photographic Volumes New Zealand Ex Libris Society, Brochure No 4, limited ed 1937, No 91/100 and No 2, No 129/150, signed by the President and Editor Johannes C Andersen. Berlin Farbigen Naturaufnahmen von Otto Troitszsch, with 20 loose photos of famous landmarks. A New History of Sandford & Merton, published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, first ed, ND. Politics & the Public by L. S. Fanning, 1919, inscribed by the author on TP, soft car wrappers. Last Saturday, photographic book from the exhibition of the same name. $40 - 80 385 (-) 8 Late 19th Century Vols of The Illustrated London News All half leather bound. $100 - 200 386 Various Three Badminton Library Sporting Volumes Coursing And Falconry, New Imp, 1912. Shooting, 8th imp, third ed, 1906. Hunting, New ed, 1906. All pictorial brown cloth. $40 - 80
387 (-) 4 Bay Of Islands Swordfish And Mako Club Yearbooks 1955-56, 56-57, 58-59, 60-61. $100 - 150
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Ackerman, Gerald, M Charles Bargue with the collaboration of Jean-Leon Gerome, ACR Edition, gray cloth, DJ, fine copy. $40 - 80 Cobb, Madeline Set 6 Limited Edition Prints of 1914-18 Ist Regt Australian Light Horse Anzac Mounted Division Artist Proofs, number 43/50, each signed. $150 - 300 Coughen, John & Horneck, Dr Anthony The History of the Old Testament Extracted out of Sacred Scripture and Writings of the Fathers for the Government of our Actions in all Conditions Illustrated with Scriptures, etc, etc. Translated from the Works of the Learned Le Sieur De Royaumont. Printed by Samuel Roycroft for Richard Blome, London, 1690, 210pp, appendix dated 1688. illus, pp67/68 detached, no front board, rear detached, text good. $150 - 250 Day, Melvin N Nicholas Chevalier Artist His Life And Work. Millwood, first edition, 1981, maroon cloth, pictorial slipcase, fine copy. $30 - 50 Harvey, Andrew Aim High Unco Publishing Co, 2000, limited edition, 338/750, black suede boards with box. $200 - 300 Hockney, David Secret Knowledge Rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters. Thames and Hudson, 2001, yellow cloth, DJ, fine copy. Also, Charles Bargue with the collaboration of Jen-Leon Gerome - Drawing Course, by Gerald M Ackerman, also a fine copy. $50 - 100
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Keynes, Geoffrey The Complete Portraiture of William & Catherine Blake Published by The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, London, 1977. Limited edition, number 46/500, quarter morocco with handmade slipcase. Fine copy. $100 - 200 Lambert, Gail Pottery In New Zealand Commercial and Collectable. Heinemann, first edition, 1985, with DJ. $30 - 50 Lindauer, Gottfried Gottfried Lindauer, His Life And Maori Art Folio, 1989. $50 - 80 McKenna, P Severne Chelsea Porcelain - The Gold Anchor Wares With a short account of the Duesbury period. Signed limited edition, number 137/500, 1952. Also, French Faience. $30 - 50 Sparrow, Walter Shaw (Editor) Etchings By Van Dyck The Art & Life Monographs in Rembrandt Photogravures, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1905. $30 - 60 Taylor, Alister & Glen, Jan C. F. Goldie, Prints, Drawings & Criticisms Alister Taylor, Martinborough, first ed, 1979, limited edition number 257 of 1600, quarter leather and gilt in linen box. Fine copy. $300 - 500 Thorogood, Stanley The Manipulation Of The Brush As Applied To Design A Course of Brushwork, second edition, 1902, with art nouveau green cloth binding. Also TwentyFour Gems of Westminster Abbey. $40 - 80 Unterkircher, Franz European Illuminated Manuscripts Thames And Hudson, London, first edition, 1967. with slipcase. $30 - 50
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Woollaston, Mountford Tosswill Erua Blackwood & Janet Paul Ltd, Auckland, first ed, 1966, limited edition number 131/1000, also, Toss Woollaston - A Life in Letters, edited by Jill Trevelyan and 51 Woollaston Drawings & Watercolours. $50 - 100
403 Various 3 Volumes on Australian Art Arthur Streeton - The Man And His Art. Tom Roberts - The Man And His Art 20 Years Of Australian Painting. $30 - 50 404 Various 8 Volumes on Book Collecting Collecting Modern First Editions by Joseph Connolly. The Collectors Book Of Books by Eric Quayle. The Country Life Book of Book Collecting edited by Richard Booth. The Collector’s Book of Boys Stories by Eric Quayle. All with DJ. $40 - 80 405 Various 6 Reference Volumes on China & Porcelain Royal Worcester Porcelain. Maiolica, Delft and Faience. The Illustrated Guide To Victorian Parian China. Pottery And Porcelain by Henry G Bohn, 1892. 18th Century German Porcelain. The Price Guide To 18th Century English. $40 - 80 406 Various Three Large Royal Doulton Reference Books Royal Doulton 1815-1965, The Rise and Expansion of the Royal Doulton Potteries by Desmond Eyles. Royal Doulton Figures Produced at Burslem Staffordshire, by Desmond Eyles and Richard Dennis. The Doulton Lambeth Wares by Desmond Eyles. $40 - 80
407 Various Cheslea , Derby, English Delft Etc Derby Porcelain by F Brayshaw Gilhespy. Chelsea Porcelain, The Triangle And Raised Anchor Wares by F Severne Mackenna. English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum Oxford by Anthony Ray. Encyclopedia Of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks by Geoffrey A Godden. $50 - 100 408 Various 5 Large Antique Reference Volumes English Domestic Clocks. The Gentleman & Cabinet Makers Director.Victorian Furniture. World Ceramics. Two Thousand Years Of Oriental Ceramics. $50 - 100 409 Various 6 Antique Reference Volumes The Illustrated Guide To Glass. A Complete Catalogue And History Of Oil And Kerosene Lamps. Glass, Hand Blown, Sculptured, Coloured. Northwood Pattern Glass In Colour. Coloured Glass. The Victorian Scene 1937-1901. $40 - 80 410 Various 3 Reference Volumes on Porcelain & Marks The Illustrated Encyclopedia of British Pottery & Porcelain by Geoffrey Godden.Victorian Porcelain by Geoffrey Godden. Handbook of Pottery and Porcelain Marks by J. P. Cushion & W. B. Honey. $30 - 50 411 Various 7 Antique Reference Books Maps and Prints for pleasure and investment. The Care Of Antiques. Collecting Postcards. Colonial Furniture in New Zealand. Antiques - The Amateur’s Questions. A Catalogue And History Of Cottage Chairs in Australia. All The Best Rubbish. $30 - 60
412 Various Raymond McIntyre - A New Zealand Painter Also, Gainsborough and Brett Whitely - Art & Life (3) $30 - 60 413 Various 6 Antique Reference Books Chinese Jade Throughout The Ages. Kitchenware. Simple Colonial Furniture. British Portrait Miniatures. Hepplewhite Furniture Designs. The Connoisseur’s Complete Period Guides, from Tudor-Stuart to Early Victorian. $50 - 100 414 Various 8 Reference Vols on Ceramics, Clocks,Victorian Tiles Including, 2 volume set of Chaffers Marks & Monograms on Pottery & Porcelain.Victorian Ceramic Tiles. Japanese and Oriental Ceramics. British Pottery & Porcelain 17801850. British Museum Handbook of the Pottery & Porcelain Of The Far East. English Pottery and Porcelain Figures. Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World. $50 - 100 415 (-) Three Victorian Illustrated Folio Volumes For The Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, comprising, Illustrations of The Bride of Lammermoor,1875. Illustrations of Redgauntlet, 1876. Illustrations Legend of Montrose, 1877, all cloth, all sunned. $50 - 100 416 Various Three Volumes on Architecture, Stained Glass, Roofs. Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England, 1851. Some Suggestions for Stained Glass Windows in houses, churches & public buildings. The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages. $40 - 80
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Alfred Hitchcock Autographed Visitors Book c1960 signed full page signature of Alfred Hitchcock, with typical profile sketch, the opposing page has the signature of renowned English studio potter Michael Cardew with a little sketch of a lidded pot, and also has the signatures of some well known NZ artists. $150 - 300 George Lowe, Harry Ayres, Murray Douglas Signed Group Three signature on headed paper from The Hermitage of the above who were part of the 1958 Transantarctic Expedition with Fuchs & Hillary. George Lowe was one of the team on the 1953 Everest Expedition, and met Hillary on his descent, where Hillary uttered to him the immortal words, “Well George, we knocked the bastard off” $50 - 100 The Rolling Stones Full Set of Signatures From Their Wellington Concert 1966 Each individually signed/inscribed on plain coloured paper, including, Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones, together with 2 coloured photographs of the vedonr and mebers of the grouop, also a small newspaper cutting and a typed letter rrom the Sunday News. Provenance; The current vendor was the winner of a competition held by the Sunday News to meet The Rolling Stones, who performed in the Town Hall, Wellington on the 28th February, 1966. Rare $2000 -3000
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420 Various 2 Football/Sports Books With Numerous Famous Autographs Including, Stanley Matthews, Billy Wright, Johnny Haynes, Don Revie, John CharlesNat Lofthouse, Duncan Edwards, Tommy Docherty, Tom Finney, Jock Stein, Ron Greenwood, Colin Cowdrey, Peter May, Richie Benaud, John Surtees, Jim Laker, Fred Truman, Godfrey Evans, Derek Ibbotson, Chris Chataway, Ron Clark. Many signed on the sprotsmans image in the books. Also, a Souvenir Programme of the Matinee organised by The Daily Telegraph as a tribute to Miss Marie Tempest on the occasion of her jubilee Tuesday May 28th, 1935 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, signed by Marie Tempest of the front endpaper. $200 -400 421 Various 8 Unframed Antiquarian Bookplates Chiefly 19th century ornothological and entomological subjects, including monochrome and hand-coloured engravings. $100 - 200
The Folio Society 422 Various Four Titles The Iliad, translated in selection by F. L. Lucas, illustrated with copper engravings by Buckland-Wright, 1950, with DJ. The Odyssey as above, 1948, with DJ. Incognita or Love and Duty Reconcil’d by William Congreve, 1951. The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput & Brobdingnag, 1958. $40 - 60 423 Various Six Titles The Brothers Karamazov. The Great Enterprise. The Berlin Diaries Of Marie Vassiltchikov. A Narrative Of The Voyage Of HMS Beagle. Revolt In The Desert. The Life Of Thomas Beckett. $50 - 100
424 Various Six Titles The Smith of Smiths. The Diary of a Nobody. The Gentlemans Daughter. Thomas Wolsey his life and work. Richard III The Great Debate. Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. $50 - 100 425 Various Six Titles London 1851, The Year of the Great Exhibition (no slipcase). The Folio Society Book of the 100 Greatest Paintings. London Portrain of a City. Renoir Paintings Drawings And Prints.Canaletto Paintings Drawings And Etchings. And 5 Folio Miniatures volumes. $50 - 100 426 Various Six Titles Wonders Of The World. Ill Met By Moonlight. Songs Of The Wandering Scholars. England’s Constable. What are the Seven Wonders of the World. The Disinherited. $50 - 100 427 Various Six Titles England’s Constable.Vanity Fair. Sir Roger De Coverly. A Tale Of Two Cities. The Conquest Of New Spain. A Short History Of English Literature. $50 - 100 428 Various Six Titles The Oxford Companion To English Literature. The Life Of Michelangelo. Les Enfants Terribles. Under Milk Wood. A Short History Of Time. 1066 And All That. $50 - 100 429 Various Six Titles Twenty One Tales. The Pick Of Punch. The Sonnets Of Michelangelo. Astropbel And Stella. Poems Of Love. Monkey. $50 - 100 430 Various Six Titles A History of England. Life Of Wolsey. The Hundred Years War. No man is an island. Pages From the Goncourt Journal. Anna Karenina. $50 - 100
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Gibbon, Edward The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire 8 Volumes set in 2 slipcases. $50 - 100 Trollope, Anthony Seven Volumes In differing coloured but matching design bindings, all with slipcases and fine copies. $50 - 100
433 Various Six Titles Elizabeth I. Essays of William Hazlitt. Le Grand Meauleus. Experiences Of An irish R. M.Venice The Most Triumphant City (no slipcase). And another snsmall volume, not Folio titled The Twelve Days of Christmas (correspondence), illus by Quentin Blake. $50 - 100
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434 Various Six Titles Short Stories From The Strand. The Pick Of Punch. What are the Seven Wonders of the World. The History Of England. The Oxford Illustrated Of English Literature. The Life Of The Admiral Christopher Columbus. (lacks spine strip) $50 - 100 435 Various Six Titles The Third Crusade. A Booklover’s Companion. Music At Court. Wren’s London. Paris In The Revolution. $50 - 100 436 Various 8 Titles 437 Various 8 Titles 438 Various 8 Titles 439 Various 8 Titles 440 Various 8 Titles
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Collectors Registration Number (for Maori Artefacts only) IF SUCCESSFUL please indictate if you will require a packing and freight quote
or if you will arrange collection yourself
OVERSEAS BIDDERS MUST COMPLETE THIS SECTION and provide photographic proof of id - passport or driviers licence together with proof of address - utility bill, bank or credit card statment etc. Failure to provide this may result in your bids not being processed. For higher value lots you may also be asked to provide a bank reference. Please provide your credit card details. Alternative methods of payment can be arranged if successful, however we still require this information. Cardholder Name Card Number
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Expiry Date Cardholder Signature Lot Number
Title / Description (use block letters)
Maximum Bid Price (excluding premium)
PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK YOUR BIDS AND READ TERMS BELOW USING THE BIDDING SLIPS Please bid as early as possible. In the event of identical bids, the earliest will take precedence. 'Buy' bids are not accepted. The limit you leave should be the amount to which you would bid if you were to attend the Sale. Each bidding slip should contain bids for one sale only. Alternative bids can be placed by using the word 'OR' between Lot Numbers.
Buyers are reminded that there is a buyer’s premium on the hammer price plus GST on the premium. See conditions of sale. ANTIQUARIAN BOOK AUCTION
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