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2020DBS-9781774073162Society Publishing 2020. 1st. Soft Cover. New. Society Publishing paperback
2020DBS-9781774073162Society Publishing 2020. 1st. Soft Cover. New. Society Publishing paperback
ria9780415724562_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Drawing on a wide range of primary historical and sociological sources and employing sharp philosophical analysis this book investigates medical ethics from a Chinese-Western comparative perspective. In doing so it offers a fascinatin paperback
184428226Cooperstown NY: H. & E. Phinney 1844. A charming illustrated children's chapbook illustrations accompanying each description of men around the world including an Englishman Indian New Zealander Tartar Frenchman Dutchman an "Owyhyhean" with a man and "dancing woman" derived from Cook; Laplander etc. along with the Camel Lion and Elephant "Elephants love spirits and wine. In India a liquor somewhat like gin called arrack is used; . They will draw or push a great weight if they are shown some arrack." 32mo 31pp engraved illustrated cover. Orig. yellow front over back cover lacking. Waterstaining and some foxing throughout. Cover with some loss and has an early sewed repair at the spine. Each type is accompanied with a short description and an illustration. Checklist of American imprints; 44-4186; OCLC: 11007179. H. & E. Phinney unknown
1882280611882. Good overall. Illustrated Dinner Bill of Fare with manuscript dishes written under each category. Soup "Ox-tail"; Entrees "Mutton cutlets & tomato sauce" "Stewed-Kidneys" Joints "Roast beef roast lamb & mint sauce roast pork & apple sauce boiled shoulder of mutton Ox-tongue" and so on for Vegetables Pastry Dessert and a printed wine list on verso.<br /> <br /> Menu has b&w illustrations of a ship Mount Cook Port Chalmers Mount Egmont on cover and back. <br /> <br /> 4pp 5 1/8 x 8" original folds chipped a top margin not affecting images closed tear at front foredge. unknown
ria9780367609078_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Wang analyses two key areas in the intellectual history of Republican China. The first is China’s art reform in the early decades of the 20th century. The second is the connection and intersection between colonialism nationalism and 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
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
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
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
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
1908048373London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. 1908. Red cloth on boards gilt title with embossed decorative border and spine trim. Cover: moderate soiling and rubbings. Front top margin with 7 x 1 cm ex-paper stuck onto it. Spine: lightly browned; head & foot with thin wear. Boards fore corners with small bumping and a touch rubbed wear. Edges: aged soiling & foxing. Couple of small indent bumps to rear boards fore-edge.Eps: old faded foxings; head fep with booksellers sticker with some paperpeel to the edges. Frontis: b/w photograph of a group of men 'Wiederschen'. A few pages with light old foxings albeit mostly to the margins. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG. 336p. First Edition. Hb. VG/None. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. Hardcover
mc490Whitcomb & Tombs Wellington 1911. Adverts on red papered covers adverts illustrations 261pp. Light foxing pages edges o/w good. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods LVIG exempt. unknown
1528156277.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ria9780197694909_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The fullest biography of Mark Antony in English A Noble Ruin provides a fresh account of Antony's personal life and especially his public career including his administration of the Roman east and his military campaigns. hardcover
1179519337.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
18646107Invercargill: Published By Authority: By Harnett & Co. Printers. Good with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Softcover. Moderate rubbing and staining to wrappers. Heavy wear to edges of rear wrapper. Some dampstains to margins of first few leaves. A 2 1/2" adhesive tape repair to a tear in one leaf.; 2 title ii table of contents 3 1 2 3 1 2 11 1 5 1 2 3 1 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 51-75 1 4 81-84 83-115 1 119-22 3 1 135-139 1 139-148 15 1 16 5 1 10 7 1 3 1 4 4 4 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 4 3 1 2 157-158 2 pages. A total of 254 pages. Some additions pasted down into blank areas of leaves e.g. notices of assent to the ordinances from the Governor of New Zealand George Grey. Original printed blue wrappers with contemporary cloth spine and paper spine label hand-titled in ink: "Southland Acts Session I to V". Page dimensions: 320 x 205mm. Printed mostly on blue paper a few ordinances printed on ordinary paper. Many of the ordinances have a different imprint to that on the title page of "Harnett & Co. Printers Invercargill". The other imprints are Fitzgerald & Co.; Smallfield & Bain; and the "Times" Office Tay-treet. The Ordinances are numbered from 1 to 49. Ordinance 27 the "Criminals' Ordinance 1862" is listed as disallowed in the Table of Contents and is not present in the volume. The pagination is complex most of the ordinances are paginated individually occassionally reverting to an attempt at continuous pagination for the whole volume. Selected Ordinances: Immigration and British Agent Ordinance 1861; Fencing Ordinance 1862; Dog Nuisance Ordinance 1862; Sheep Ordinance 1862; Cattle Branding Ordinance 1862; Thistle Ordinance 1862; Vagrant Ordiance 1862; Bluff Harbour and Invercargill Railway Ordinance 1863; Licensed Hawkers' Ordinance 1663 sic; Oreti Railway Ordinance 1863; Cemeteries Ordinance 1863. "The occupier of any land upon which shall be found any noxious Thistles which have run to seed shall be liable to a penalty of not less than £5 and not more than £20." - from the Thistle Ordinance 1862. The Vagrants Ordinance 1862 provides a list of persons that shall be deemed "idle and disorderly" including: "Any habitual drunkard having been thrice convicted of drunkeness within the preceding twelve months and any common prositute who in any street or public highway or being in any place of public resort shall behave in a riotous or indecent manner" and "Any person having on or about his person without lawful excuse . and deleterious drug or any article of disguise". This list is followed by a list of offences the commital of which will have a person deemed "a rogue and a vagabond". The offences include: "Any person found by night having his face blackened or being dressed or otherwise disguised with a felonious intent." From the Ferries Ordinance 1862: "It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to cause Bridge to be built over rivers and to authorise Ferries to be established at convenient places on the rivers lakes or other waters within the Province of Southland for the conveyance of passengers animals and goods across the same". The Province of Southland was formed in 1861 when it split from the Province of Otago. This is the province's first volume of Ordinances.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Published By Authority: By Harnett & Co. , Printers paperback
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