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2026x-1032852895Taylor & Francis Ltd 2026. Paperback. New. 434 pages. 7.00x0.93x10.00 inches. Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback
1945pc00001Wellington New Zealand: AEWS Army Education Welfare Service 1945. 26 original issues bound in one volume; a morale and welfare informational bulletin of the New Zealand Army Education Welfare Service during World War II; very clean and tight textblock with lightly shelf-worn boards and worn spine extremities; bumped corners; some pages beginning to yellow with age but overall in very nice condition. "Korero" is a Maori word. As a noun a talk or discussion; as a verb to speak or converse. Korero pono - to tell the truth. First Edition. Half Leather Cloth Sides. Very Good. Illus. by B&W Photographs & Color & B&W Illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. AEWS (Army Education Welfare Service)
1996x-0750704861Falmer Pr 1996. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 248 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. Falmer Pr paperback
188024689New Zealand 1880. Very good condition. Charming card with family crest and manuscript greeting above pen and ink sketch in a gold border of a man on horseback crossing a river in a mountainous landscape and captioned "Crossing NZ River Going into deep water". <br /> <br /> The family crest with 3 gold anchors and white band charge on a black field; the greeting "Wishing you a jolly Xmas" penned in black ink with the first letter done in brush. 4 1/4 x 7 unknown
228300<p>ca. 1924. 12 1/4" x 9 1/2". Illustrated with 15 b/w halftones from photographs; map. Original stapled pictorial wrappers printed in blue black and brown. 8 pages including covers. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. New Zealand Publicity Folder No. 5. With Zane Grey's estate blindstamp on the cover.</p> W.A.G. Skinner paperback
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ria9781138723023_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book offers an explanation of the role that exchange rates play in the economic system. Originally published in 1986. hardcover
ria9781108483988_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book systematically and critically examines Chinese refugee law and policy. It provides in-depth legal and policy analysis and is a timely response to rapidly growing international interest in and demand for information about Chine hardcover
ria9781789245837_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Destination research today has become increasingly fragmented as studies become more specialized. This book provides a systematic examination and combines spatial and organizational structure across destinations from the national to the hardcover
ria9781108836746_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book records in considerable detail the remarkable bounded prime gaps breakthroughs of recent decades including Polymath8's best result. The material is suitable for graduate students and any mathematician curious about developmen hardcover
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192723332Gore: Gore Publishing Co. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library General Assembly Library New Zealand Parliamentary Library. Rebound in red cloth boards with gilt library stamps on front board. Handwritten contents leaf. Some library labels and markings. Spine title: "N. Z. Historical Pamphlets - Vol. 11". ; 64 pages folding frontispiece portraits on 8 leaves. Printed green wrappers. Page dimensions: 211 x 134mm. Bagnall only calls for portraits on 4 leaves. Bound with 4 jubilee county histories making in total 5 titles bound in one volume. red cloth boards with rubbed leather lettering piece on spine gilt library stamp on front board. The four county histories are: 2 "Geraldine County Jubilee - 1877-1927" 19 1 blank pages. Geraldine: Geraldine County Council 1927 Grey printed wrappers bound in. 3 Stent William Frank "The Jubilee of the Borough of Greytown. Wairarapa . December 4th 1928 - 1878-1928 - Jubilee Souvenir" Masterton: Palamontain & Petherick 1928 12 pages. Illustrated. Printed wrappers bound in. 4 Johnstone Harry Bell Spearman "Waimate County Jubilee 1876-1926". Waimate: Waimate Advertiser Co. 1926. Cover-title. 54 2 blank pages. Printed wrappers bound in. 5 Joyce Thomas Athol "Jubilee of the Civic Government - Borough of Gisborne and County of Cook - New Zealand - 1877-1927 - Celebrated on 12th May 1927" Gisborne: Printed at the Poverty Bay Herald Office 1927. 111 1 pages frontispiece plates. Includes advertisements. Printed front wrapper bound in. References: Bagnall G505; G154; S1589; J226; J389 . Gore Publishing Co. hardcover
1950110972Auckland: Whites Aviation Limited 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Auckland Whites Aviation Limited 1950s. Oblong quarto 15 thin booklets bound together in one volume with each booklet 24 pages comprising the pictorial front cover a page of text 20 full-page plates a map and the rear cover with the list of titles in the series and the publication details. Cloth a little rubbed at the extremities; front free endpaper removed; a very good copy internally in fine condition. The individual titles are in order in the volume Auckland; Waikato; Rotorua Taupo Bay of Plenty; Gisborne and District; Taranaki; Wanganui and District; Palmerston North; Hawke's Bay; Wairarapa; Wellington; Marlborough Nelson Buller Westland; Canterbury; Otago; and Southland. Whites Aviation Limited hardcover
188323550New York: Evening Post Job Printing 1883. Wraps. Very good overall. Interesting real estate items where New Zealand law informs NY law. Three items pertaining to real estate transfer and records in New York including a pamphlet with a section pertaining to the difficulties of doing a title search in New York City and with a recommendation for the admirably practical aspects of the newly enacted New Zealand Land Transfer Act 1870 New Zealand Act. <br /> <br /> The author proposes using a system based on keeping records of the titles to land as opposed to an index of names of title owners and commends the 1870 New Zealand Act as setting up the best system for doing so pp 17 -25. Olmstead notes the difficulty of doing a City title search due to the huge increase in the number of records. <br /> <br /> The pamphlet titled 'The West Side Association of the City of New York Transfer of Title to Real Estate A Lecture' by Dwight W. Olmstead. 8vo 28pp. Printed paper wrappers chipped at edges early owner signature top of front wrapper. OCLC: 44729510 records 1 copy in microfilm at the New York Public Lib.<br /> <br /> With a flyer titled 'Land Transfer Reform recording the resolutions of the Public Meeting of the West Side Association of Property Owners April 1 1882'. 8vo 2pp. Very good condition and with 'A paper adopted at the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Land Transfer Reform Association of the City of New York on March 31 1883'. This paper asks that the New York Bar Association support the improved system of real estate record keeping as proposed by the Reform Association. 8vo 3pp. Chipped at top and foredge. Evening Post Job Printing paperback
188524771New Zealand 1885. Good overall. Image is of a carved Maori meeting house with a large group of indigenous people Maori men women and children dressed in western attire posed in front of the building's ornately decorated facade. Amongst the group all dressed in their Sunday best clothing is a European dressed in a dark suit with the words "Merry Christmas" above him.<br /> <br /> A wharenui big house is the communal meeting house of the Maori people of New Zealand. The houses are often elaborately carved inside and out with stylized images of the tribe's ancestors in the tribe's unique patterns. This meeting house was newly constructed with a large glass window next to the door.<br /> <br /> 6 x 4" laid down on card stock. The Christmas greeting captioned in white. Faint outline of old sticky tape now removed at top of image; card corners rubbed. hardcover
192160331Wanganui NZ: Printed by the Wanganui Herald Newspaper Co. Ltd. 1921. 8vo. 4 iv 95 pp. plus 7 pp. publisher’s illustrated ads. Frontisp. photo numerous photo plates strip maps. Pictorial tan publisher’s cloth illustration on front cover of Maori standing beside the river lettering & decoration in black & red minor soiling edgewear offset toning to endpapers still VG copy. First edition of this surprisingly scarce guide to the Wanganui River people and natural history for travels down the Whanganui River the third-longest river in New Zealand. Prior to the completion of the North Island Main Trunk Railway the river was a aital link for the effort with steamships regularly running its’ length whose rugged beauty and the Maori villages Kainga dotting the banks attraced thousands of tourists annually. Downes d. 1938 was appointed the Supervisor of River Works and Ranger for Domain Lands for the Wanganui River Trust in 1921 and traveled the length of the river repeatedly. Printed by the Wanganui Herald Newspaper Co., Ltd., hardcover
1905122572Wellington: John Mackay Government Printer 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Wellington John Mackay Government Printer 1905. Foolscap folio ii cumulative title page last blank 16 last blank 2 index last blank 182 40 last blank 16 pages with numerous tables one folding plus 11 pages of plates 3 diagrams 2 folding 4 plans 3 folding and a page with 3 colour graphs. Flush-cut quarter cloth and printed papered boards; original paper title-label on the spine a little chipped; minor signs of use and age; internally excellent. 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 pastedown. John Mackay, Government Printer hardcover
1907125838Wellington: John Mackay Government Printer 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Wellington John Mackay Government Printer 1907. Foolscap folio ii 18 ii index 130 36 14 last blank pages with numerous tables one folding plus 11 pages of plates 4 full-page a diagram 5 folding plans 3 in colour and a page with 3 colour graphs. Flush-cut quarter cloth and printed papered boards; original paper title-label on the spine a little chipped; mild signs of use and age; internally excellent. 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 of the rear flyleaf. John Mackay, Government Printer hardcover
1910125839Wellington: John Mackay Government Printer 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Wellington John Mackay Government Printer 1910. Foolscap folio ii last blank 20 88 36 14 pages with numerous tables plus 2 full-page plates 8 plans 7 folding and 6 in colour and a page with 3 colour graphs. Flush-cut quarter cloth and printed papered boards; original paper title-label on the spine a little chipped; mild signs of use and age; internally excellent. 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. John Mackay, Government Printer hardcover
1906125837Wellington: John Mackay Government Printer 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Wellington John Mackay Government Printer 1906. Foolscap folio ii 16 ii index 198 44 10 pages with numerous tables one folding plus 6 pages of plates a diagram 2 folding plans and a page with 3 colour graphs. Flush-cut quarter cloth and printed papered boards; original paper title-label on the spine slightly chipped; trifling signs of use and age; internally excellent. 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 of the rear flyleaf. John Mackay, Government Printer hardcover
101126An etching printed on card image size 183 × 232 mm; size of card 253 × 279 mm signed and dated in reverse in the plate 1935 with the edition number 7/50 title and artist's signature in pencil in the lower margin. In fine condition unmounted as issued. unknown
183423710London 1834. First printing. Hardcover book. Overall very good condition. A 24 issue sammelband of Missionary related papers a variety of titles issued between 1828 to 1834 all including wood engravings including a significant series on missions in New Zealand. The titles vary and include "Quarterly Papers for the Use of the Weekly and Monthly Contributors to the Baptist Missionary Society" "Papers Relative to the Wesleyan Missions And to the State of Heathen Countries" "Missionary Papers for the Use of the Weekly and Monthly Contributors to the Church Missionary Society" and it's follow-on "Church Missionary Paper for the Use of Weekly and Monthly Contributors."<br /> <br /> There are five articles on New Zealand. The March 1827 issue begins with- "The Subscribers to our Missions have felt a special interest in that to New Zealand. The savage character of the inhabitants on the one hand and their intellectual capabilities on the other have at once pointed out New Zealand as a place where the gospel might achieve a splendid triumph over vice and barbarism and bring into the Christian Church a race of men likely to distinguish themselves when once they had received the grace of God in truth." It goes on with a summary by Mr. White. Papers Relative to the Wesleyan Mission. No. XXVII March 1827 frontis of "Wesley-Dale' The Wesleyan Mission Station at Wangaroa New Zealand 3 pp text. <br /> <br /> The following four mentions include -Missionary Papers for the Use of the Weekly and Monthly Contributors to the Church Missionary Society No. LIX Michaelmas 1830 4pp frontis of "Church-Missionary Settlement at Kiddeekiddee New Zealand; Ibid. No. LXVI Midsummer 1832 4pp frontispiece "Church Missionary Settlement of Rangihoua New Zealand; Church Missionary Paper for the Use of Weekly and Monthly Contributors No. LXX Midsummer 1833 article with illustration "Perforated Rock in New Zealand; Ibid. No. LXXIII Lady-Day 1834 article on New Zealand with "Portrait of Edward Parry a Baptized New-Zealand Youth" . <br /> <br /> Other significant content on India and Ceylon and lesser content on Jamaica Burma West Africa Jerusalem etc. The book begins with a full page plate and 2pp description of "The Sailor's Home; or Brunswick Maritime Establishment" at the London Docks.<br /> <br /> Early brown papered boards with cloth spine no title corners rubbed spine slt. sunned. A very little scattered foxing o/w very good. hardcover
184423197London: House of Commons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in later khaki cloth boards with gilt-titled green lettering piece on spine. Provenance: three ex libris labels on front endpaper - G. & N. Ingleton; J. Holdsworth; The Epsom Trust. ; 30 2 pages slip facing page 2 "It is requested that this printed copy of the Report may be substituted for that delivered generally to Members on the 10th of August. . . .". Later cloth boards. Page dimensions: 338 x 209mm. Number #556 on title. Final leaf has a smaller sized title page with "Under 8 oz." printed at the tail end. The "Report" is on pages 3-14 with 19 Resolutions on page 12-14. The "Proceedings of the Committee" are on pages 15-30. Heading on page 3: "Report. The Select Committee appointed 'to inquire into the State of the Colony of New Zealand; and into the Proceedings of the New Zealand Company; and to to report the Minutes of Evidence and their Opinion thereon to The House and to whom Two Petitions were referred; - Have considerd the Matters to them referred and agreed to the following Report: - " The report "takes the view that native sovereignty should not be recognized over waste lands never occupied by them; regrets Commissioner Spain's adoption of the idea that all land should be considered as native until proved to have been properly paid for . . . The report as a whole is very favourable to the Co. New Zealand Company although it admits that their conduct in sending settlers in defiance of the Crown was irregular and improper." Adam et al. p. 71. Reference: Adam Ewing & Munro "Guide to the Principal Parliamentary Papers relating to the Dominions 1812-1911" Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd 1913 page 71 ; Folio . House of Commons hardcover
189027844Legroce photo 1890. Very good condition. A color photo of hot springs in Whakarewarewa in Rotorua New Zealand with active steam vents surrounded by houses and laundry.<br /> <br /> Pencil caption on the verso is 'Boiling Springs in volcanic region N.Z. " Image 8.25 x 6" on board 12 x 9.75" Legroce photo unknown
