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Rare Book Auction
19 August 2015
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RARE BOOK AUCTION
WEDNESDAY 19TH August 2015
Commencing at 12 noon.
VIEWING
Sunday 16th August, 11 am to 4.00pm,
Monday, Tuesday prior to sale from 9.00am to 5.00pm
and morning of the sale.
Major Items for this sale are:
• A rare and unique set of the 2nd edition of Sir Walter Lawry Buller’s A History of the Birds of New Zealand together with the
Supplements, in their original grey printed wrappers as published and with the original book boxes. Provenance by family descent
to Tony Keulemans, great, great grandson of the artist John Gerrard Keulemans.
• John French Angas – The New Zealanders Illustrated [1847] bound into an important highly decorative arts and crafts full
morocco, elaborately tooled binding.
• A superb photograph album by Thomas Andrew in its original tapa cloth binding titled ‘Samoa’ circa 1900.
• Early Francois Valentyn engravings showing the first images of New Zealand and the New Zealanders [1726].
• Early maps and engravings
• Collection of children’s books including one inscribed and signed by Roald Dahl.
Also of importance are a selection of first edition New Zealand and Regional histories, early and historic New Zealand
photographs and documents; Central Otago gold mining documents, papers and maps; Angling books and a large collection of
autographs and postcards;
My final sale for the year will be held in late November. This sale includes Books from two important South Island Libraries featuring
first edition New Zealand histories as well as Antarctic histories, and rare hunting and fishing titles. Entries for this important sale
are invited.
All Inquiries : Pam Plumbly
Phone [09] 354 4646 Mobile 021 448 200
Email: pam@artandobject.co.nz
Art and Object
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Lot 439
Cover: Lot 439
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Subject Index lots
Postcards and Autographs 1 - 35
Regional History 36 - 69
New Zealand & Pacific History 70 - 118
Travel and Exploration 119 - 125
Natural History 126 - 140
Angling 141 - 157
Sport and Recreation 158 - 168
Biography 169 - 175
New Zealand Wars 176 - 180
Military History 181 - 202
Maori 202 - 231
Early N.Z. Documents & Maori Printings 232 - 245
Art 246 - 276
Maps & Plans 277 - 289
Janet Frame 290 - 310
Polar History 311 - 317
Maritime History 318 - 322
Newspapers & Periodicals 323 - 326
Gold mining 327 - 336
New Zealand Literature & Private Press 337 - 362
Prints, Engravings, Paintings 363 - 377
Children’s and illustrated Books 378 - 397
Antiquarian Books 398 - 403
Science and Technology 404 - 412
Bibliography 413 - 417
Early Tourism, Souvenirs, Postcards 418 - 437
Photography, 438 - 468
Lotting Information
Information on lots appear in the following sequence:
Lot number, author, title, edition, publisher, date of publication, number of volumes, pagination (where applicable),
Bagnall citation, condition, other notes, estimated price (for some lots only).
Abbreviations & Citations
AEG – All edges gilt Rep – Reprint
AF – With all faults SLF – slight foxing
DJ – Dust jacket SA – Signed by author
DJR – Dust jacket repaired TP – Title page
EPs – Endpapers W & T – Whitcombe and Tombs
FEP – Front end paper OUP – Oxford University Press
BEP – Backend paper ODT & Witness- Otago Daily Times and Witness
Frontis – Frontispiece PC – Paper/Card covers
IA – Inscribed by author HMSO – Her Majesty’s Stationary Office
HC – Half calf binding D.I.A. – Dept of Internal Affairs
ND – No date TNZI – Transactions of the New Zealand Institute
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14. ‘Yours very sincerely Louis Raemaekers’. - 1916. Louis Raemaekers
Postcards & Autographs [Cartoonist].
15. ‘A Merry del Val.’ His Excellency Merry de Val [ Spanish Ambassador]
Mar. 1918.
16. Yours very sincerely G. Boni.’ Professor G. Boni, Director of the
1 ALL BLACKS, [signatures] excavations in the Roman Forum and on the Palatine. 1916.
Tour to England 1935 - 1936 17. John Galsworthy. [1918].
28 signatures of the team and management on R.M.M.S Aorangi 18. A. Conan Doyle [1915]. Also 13 other writers and novelists. [1915-
letterhead notepaper. 1918
$300 All signed on paper and laid on card with typed descriptions at the
2 AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE, [signatures] base.
Football Team in New Zealand 1935 $200-$300
Sheet of notepaper 22 x 18cms with 27 signatures. Includes the 7 BALLET AND SCREEN STARS, [circa 1950’s]
majority of the team, the Manager, Captain and four visitors. Also Album of 83 Photographs.
the 1935 Australian Rugby League team, ‘War Cry’ hand written and Album consist of 83 photographic images of ballet dancers, screen
signed ‘Sincerely Yours Ray Stehr “War Cry” Leader, Kangaroos’ 1933, stars, and skating stars the majority with real signatures they include
34, 35’ two of Dame Margot Fonteyn, both signed; Robert Helpmann,
$100 - $200 Australian dancer, choreographer, director and actor; Alicia Markova,
3 AUTOGRAPH ALBUM Britains first ballarine; Svetlana Berisova, British born prima ballarina
The Beatles and Rolling Stones. [1960’s] who danced for more than 20 years; Violetta Elvin, Soviet ballarina
An autograph album dating from New Zealand concerts in the 1960’s who danced for Sadler’s Wells; Elaine Fifield, first Australian to become
containing what is believed to be the signatures of the Beatles, a ballarina of Sadler’s Wells; Mona Inglesby , director of International
Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Star, the Ballet; Margaret Hill, British Ballarina, who was principal dancer with
signatures are written in a black fibre type pen. Also signatures of the British Ballet. Maureen Forrester,Canadian Operatic Contralto; etc.
Rolling Stones members, Bill Wyman, Keith Richardson, Brian Jones The photos are in an album, 23cms, some pages loose, images mostly
and Charlie Watts. It also contains various other signatiures including clean some lightly faded, VG.
Roy Orbison, Dinah Lee, Bobby Vee and others, these are all written in $200
blue ball point. 8 CREST ALBUM & CIGARETTE CARD, ALBUMS [2X]
The vendor says the signatures were obtained by the father of the Album for Crests, Monograms Coats of Arms.
young woman who made up the album. He worked in lighting and Ornamental Dies, etc. With ornamental Designs printed in colour for
sound at the theatre where the artists appeared in Christchurch, New arranging the crests. Ln: W.Mack nd ca 1880’s.
Zealand in the 1960’s. These autographs have not been authenticated. An album of British regimental crests, 31p, of which 24 have been
$1500 - $2000 filled in. Loosely enclosed a list of the regiments and some loose
4 AUTOGRAPH BOOK, [1930’s] crests. Bound in a green cloth with decorative black and gilt. VG.
Rare Sportsmens Signatures and other Two Cigarette Card Albums.
Dignatories - 52 autographs of well known men and women, in 2. Will’s Cigarette Picture-Card Album with set of ‘The Reign of H.M.
the 1930’s who were sportsmen, musicians, explorers, aviators, etc King George V’. [50 cards]
they include the autographs of Don Bradman; Zane Grey; Fred Perry 3. Will’s Cigarette Picture-Card Album with set of Player’s ‘Uniforms of
[golfer]; Frank Wilde [tennis player]; J.E. Lovelock [Athlete, together the Territorial Army’. [50 cards]
with a signed letter]; 9 EXHIBITION
Aviators, Kingsford Smith; P. Ulm and Gul L. Menzies and others Postcards
Polar Explorers, Douglas Maswon; RE. Byrd and Lincoln Ellsworth. Fifteen postcards from various world exhibitions they include
Felix Count Luckner [German Naval Officer; Auckland; 1906/07 NZ International Exhibition; and the Christchurch,
Francis Chicester; Bledisoes [Governor General] etc. Londion and Newcastle upon Tyne Exhibitions.
$400 - $600 Also The Mineral Deposits of New Zealand written for the NZ and
5 AUTOGRAPHS South Seas Exhibition 1925.
Hans Stuck [signed] $40 - $60
Original sepia toned postcard featuring two images of Hans Stuck one 10 POSTCARD, [inscribed]
racing his Auto Union, signed by him. Felix Count Luckner
Another, clippig of him racing his car and signed in ink in the corner. Post card of a portrait of Felix von Luckner, featuring him with all his
German motor racing driver, mostly known for his domination of hill- medals, signed by him and dated 1936.
climbing which earned him the nickname ‘King of the Mountains’. Also notepaper with an inscription written by him “Its men that fight
$50 not ships Felix Count Lucknor dated 21.3.36”.
6 AUTOGRAPHS, [They include $50
Christabel Pankhurst, 1918 [Suffragette] 11 POSTCARD ALBUM
Also - 2. Signature of Herbert Hoover Faithfully Yours [typed] and Central Otago
signed in ink Herbert Hoover. Food Administrator for the U.S.A. [Great 59 postcards of Central Otago from an original album most of the
War] 1916. cards having been sent to the same person. Dating from the early
3. ‘Yours Ever James W. Gerard, Jan 16th 1917’. [ U.S. Ambassador to 1900’s they include early images of Arrowtown, some real photos;
Berlin ] 1917. Lake Hayes; Kawarau Bridge [near Arrowtown] by Muir & Moodie;
4. ‘Sincerely Yours Walton H. Page’. [American Ambassador. London Seveeral differentimages of Kawarau Falls and the Remarkables;
1918.] The Hector of RemarkableMts from Frankton shows Lake Wakatipu
5. ‘J.P. Morgan’. Mr J.P. Morgan 1917. Shipping Shed and horse and wagon; Mirror Lake; Lake Wakatipu with
6. ‘Nicholas Murray Butler’ 1918. Lake Steamer “Mountaineer”; Severla eearly cards of Queenstown
7. ‘E.M. House’. Colonel E.M. House Representative and close personal some with messages on front; Elfin Bay; Res Valley; Six different views
friend of President Wilson [U.S.A.] 1918. of Skippers by F. milne Series; A. Verbeeck; Hotops Series; Muir &
8. ‘Shaugnessy’. [1st Baron] President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Moodie; Two early cards by Geo Griffiths of Alexandra showing vies of
Co. 1916. Clyde and Cromwell; The Oubt, Lowburn Ferry; Views of Wanaka.
9. Sincerely George Harvey’. President Harper and brothers, Most of the cards have messages, some edges rubbed, with small tape
Publishers, U.S.A. 1916. marks verso where they have been attached to an abum.
10. Signature of ‘Aga Khan’. Head of the Ismaili Mahomedans. 1918. $400
11. ‘Yours faithfully Douro’. Marquis Douro. Feb.1918.
12. ‘Yours Sincerely de Lazlo’. Laszlo de Lombos [painter] 1914.
13. ‘Manuel R.’ Ex King Manuel of Portugal 1918.
12 POSTCARD ALBUM 20 POSTCARDS, [16]
New Zealand and Novelty Postcards Auckland
Approximately 196 cards, of these 66 are New Zealand cards they 16 real photo cards they include Glimpses of Mt Eden from Ponsonby,
include Dunedin street scenes and buildings, Kaikorai Valley and Gordon Series; Mt Eden from Newton, by FGR another of Mt Eden
Cable Car, Dunedin, Outram Glenn Near Dunedin; Roslyn Cable Car; by FGR; Mt Eden College, multi photo card; Two views of Auckland
Blackwood Bros Butchers Display, Dunedin. Linden Roslyn etc. Also waterfront; St Heliers by by FGE [Beach scene]; St Heliers by by Wilson;
real photo cards of Christchurch, and Auckland. A few of the cards Four later 1950’s real photo cards. Also an Auckland early Auckland
have superficial insect damage and rubbed edges. tram ticket with advert verso. etc,
Also 130 novelty cards mostly of scenes, flowers, children etc. The $300
albume is disbound. 21 POSTCARDS, [19]
$200 - $400 Christchurch and West Coast
13 POSTCARDS Christchurch - 14 cards including various street scenes and buildings
26 Houses, Picnics, People etc some showing people promenading and horse and carriages; 2
Cards mostly real photos showing picnics, group images, houses etc. scenes of the avon river;
Cards ca 1910. some edges rubbed. Gold Sluicing Kumara N.Z. by F.T. Series; 2 cards of Mt Cook and the
$100 Hermitage; Upper Marion Bridge near Hamner Springs; Lake Brunner-
14 POSTCARDS Otira. etc
Anzacs in France. Cards all early 1900’s. some corners and edges rubbed, G to VG
Set of 8 sepia toned printed images, they include ‘A Brawny Maori 22 POSTCARDS, [21]
Butcher’, Bread and Jam, Bringing up a Gun, New Zealanders Cheer Auckland
the King, etc. Unused, slight foxing, VG. Real photo cards, Entrance to Auckland Harbour from Mt Eden by FGR;
$50 Institute for the Blind Parnell , Gordon Series; One Tree Hill from Mt
15 POSTCARDS Hobson by FGR; Remuera and Mt Hobson from Mt Hobson by FGR;
Miscellaneous - New Zealand View of Remuera from Mt Hobsonby W.B & Co; Group W.W.I. image
14 postcards and Souvenir Folder of Invercargill NZ. containing 18 titled verso Mt Albert; Remuera School; Remuera and Mt Victoria from
coloured views of Invercargill by Tanner Bros ca 1920’s. Mt Eden, by FGR; Queen St, showing P.O. & Wireless Installation by
The cards include - real photograph cards of Russell by F.G.R and W.B.; St Heliers Bay by Wilson; 3 of Auckland Exhibition etc. G to VG.
JB [2x]; Tiki card by HB opens to reveal three images of Wellington; $350
3 real photo cards of planes at Rangotai Airport Wellington [ca 23 POSTCARDS, [31]
1950] ; 2 cards of Home Bay, Motutapu; Maori Cooking Operations, Auckland
Whakarewarewa by Beattie; His First Pair by Trevor Lloyd; She’s a Hard 14 cards of street scenes in central Auckland, some colour mostly
War Dig, N.Z. YMCA card on active service. etc. Queen St, printed cards, Rotorua Express leaves Auckland, Two early
All cards G to VG and most dating around 1910 - 20. views of St Heliers, Cowes Bay and Wharf Waiheke, Several views of
$100 -$200 Rangitoto from different areas, Mt Eden showing Maori fortifications,
16 POSTCARDS One Tree Hill from Mt Eden, Harbour scenes, etc. Mostly date from
New Zealand Novelty Cards early 1900’s and G to VG.
7 NZ novelty cards with fold out images of Wellington, Hastings, $250
Cambridge, Te Aroha, Rotorua and Masterton 24 POSTCARDS, [36]
$70 Southern New Zealand
17 POSTCARDS, [41x] Stewart Island - 8 cards include 2 different views of Ulva Post Office
Wellington, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay the Southernmost Post Office in the World by P.C. Anderson & T. Hide;
Real photo cards include Post Office & Riddiford Street Wellington by Sea Lion In the far South by Muir & Moodie; and 4 scenic views of
William Nees; Te Reinga Falls near Gisborne by F.T. Series; 15 later real Golden Bay, Oban, Ringa Ringa etc.
photo cards ca 1950’s of Wellington & Gisborne areas.; Custom House Bluff - 10 cards including 2 Wharf scenes; Main Street,
Hotel Wellington; 3x of Napier Earthquake Masonic Hotel; Hastings Bluff NZ; The most southern Railway Station in the World.; Shipwreck
St, Napier and Fire Destroys the Town; 3x Tourist Series Cards of Mere card inscribed “Okta” wrecked Bluff 18th Sept 1913 [real photo];
Mere Gisborne and Opotiki Rd, Gisborne; Masonic Hotel Opotiki, Stirling Point Lighthouse and Signal Station; Railway Yard and Wharf
Strand Series; Printed cards include Petone from the Hills above from PO Tower; S.S. Theresa Ward Tug, Bluff NZ; Wharves and shippng,
Station; Petone Railway Workshops; Waipawa; Upper Gladstone Rd, Bluff NZ; Bluff showing the Wharf:
Gisborne, T. Adams Series; The Wharf, Gisborne, F.T. Series; Turanganui Riverton -1 card Image of wooden barge in estuary with small boys by
Public Library, Gisborne [shoows Hannahs shoeshop]; etc. Muir & Moodie.
$250 Invercargill - 17 cards include The Most Southern Gas Lamp and
Hansom Cab in the World by Muir & Moodie; Wading in the Estuary
18 POSTCARDS, [102] Invercargill; 5 different views of the Botanical Gardens; Street view of
Rotorua and Surrounds Dee Street; Several views of the Town Hall, Post Office, Hopotal; Advert
Colour and black and white postcards mostly images from real Card showing Thomson’s Lemonade carriage and Clydesdale horses.
photograpgs include Thos Pringle, W.J. Robinson series, Iles, Muir All the cards date from early 1900’s some with corners rubbed and
& Moodie, F.T. Series, J.R. Blencowe, R.G. Marsh, W. Beattie and Co. light marks and creases. Verso of some cards are small tape marks,
Images include Lake Rotorua, Ohinemutu, Guide Edie, Hamurana generally G to VG.
Spring, Mokoia Island, Whakarewarewa, Wairoa Geyser. Pink & white $200 - $300
terraces, etc. Most date from round 1908, a few later cards ca 1940’s
They are mostly VG. 25 POSTCARDS, [39]
$450 South Island.
39 miscellaneous South Island Cards, they are mostly printed cards
19 POSTCARDS, [15] and include Oamaru, Blenheim Waikouaiti, several early vies of
Northland Dunedin; Port Chalmers,Exhibition cards, Queenstown; Stewart Island,
11 of which are real photo cards include Cameron Street, Whanganui Christchurch. Also 14 later [ca 1950’s] real photo cards.
bu FGR; Mangonui looking from Heads by A. Northwood; Paihia - Bay $200
of Islands by Palmer Series; A Wharf scene Whangarei with children;
Mmapere Road, Opononi by Geo Woolley etc. 26 POSTCARDS, [3]
$150 Louis Wain
At the Cat Show With Louis Wain, First Prize; Not Competing; Highly
Commended. All cards feature a single cat are Raphael Tuck & Sons
“Oilette” cards and are unused. First Prize card has a short closed tear
else the cards are all VG near fine.
$60
27 POSTCARDS, [40] 33 POSTCARDS, [68]
Auckland Miscellaneous and New Zealand Views
Mostly printed cards they include Head Fire Brigade, Auckalnd by S.N. 41 North Island postcards various cities and scenes include 8
& Co; Several scenes of Ferry Wharf Auckland ; Regatta Day Cowes Bay, Palmerston North cards from L.W. Holland booklet; 15 cards of Hot
by The Mos series; Home Bay by Motutopu; 2 views of Lake Takapuna; Springs Districts and surrounds. etc.
Constitution Hill shwoing St Andrews Church; Auckland from St 22 cards of South Island include several Dunedin cards, also
Matthews Church; Freemans Bay, Ponsonby; Panoramic several Views Invercargill, Gore, Ashburton, Preservation Inlet, Novelty Otago Daily
from Mt Eden; Greenlane Terminus; etc. Times card, etc.
Real photographs include Mt Eden from Ponsonby by W.T.; 6 miscellaneous cards Malvern Tramways Band 1924; Family with
Karangahape Road bu Muir & Moodie; Devonport and Northcote Young Maori woman wearing a large hei tiki;
Ferry etc, Mostly postally used and VG. Two men fishing ; 2 men playing cards; Amy Bock, etc.
$300 All ealy 1900’s, some light soiling and edge rubbing.
28 POSTCARDS, [40] $300
Auckland 34 VICTORIAN POSTCARD, ALBUM
Mostly early printed cards of Auckland they include, 3x by J. Patterson Approximately 240 cards
Pukekohe Hickey’s Dam; Pukekohe Hill where three crops of potatoes A superb album containing 240 Victorian cards, mostly Christmas,
are grown annually; Pukekohe from Doctors Hill; One Tree Hill from Mt Birthday and New Years cards many with small children, some
Eden; Mt Eden; Two aerial views of Cornwall Park by Industria Series featuring animals in human poses [eg monkeys steeple chasing]
& GoldMedal; Auckland from the Harbour by W. Beattie; Kingsland clowns and others, some appear to be in sets, decorative Continental
Tram Terminus by W. Beattie; Epsom and Cornwall Park; Home Bay valentine cards.
Motutaou; Yachting by H. Winkelmann; Birkenhead, F.T. Series; Lake The cards date from the late 19th century to ca 1910. All are glued
Takapuna, the Moa Series; On the Tramline to Onehunga, Muir & into an album with decorative Victorian scraps and heraldic emblems
Moodie etc. decorating the pages. The album is clean and all the cards are VG with
$250 bright crisp colours.
29 POSTCARDS, [42] $600 - $800
Lower and Central North Island 35 VICTORIAN SCRAP ALBUM, [includes]
Real photo images and some from real photographs they include G.E. Baxter ‘Australia News from Home’
houseboat scenes on the Wanganui River, Eltham looking South; The album is dated 1850. At the back of the album is a mounted
The Railway Station Masterton; Fosters Hotel Wanganui; 2 real photo Baxter print blind stamped on the mount with G.E. Baxter patent and
greetings cards from Manaia; Railway Station Wanganui; Victoria titled Australia ‘News from Home’.
Ave Wanganui [real photo]; Ohakune township [real photos 2x The remainder of the album includes original botanical watercolours
1905]; Ohakune Railway Station; Lake Hotel Taupo; several scenic and pencil sketches; poems in copperplate hand writing; graphite
cards Pipiriki House; Brick’s Private Hotel [real photo ? Bulls]; Several sketches of country and architectural scenes, copper engravings.
different views of Mt Egmont etc; Unusual real photo card dated 1905 It is bound into a beautiful black lacquer boards with decorative
of mounted deer heads; chinoiserie work, leather spine and a glazed botanical engraving on
Most date from early 1900’s, two or three later. G to VG. the front of the album.
$350 A beautiful Victorian scrap album
30 POSTCARDS, [51] $600 - $800
South Island
Mostly images from photographs they include Christchurch scenes
of Cafe Continental Sumner; Bush Inn Riccarton Road; Clock Tower
Corner; Hill Top Hotel Akaroa; South Road Kaikoura [real photo]; Royal
Cafe, Rock Tunnel; Kaikoura Cheviot Road; Cashel St, [real photo];
Saltaire homestead etc;
Regional History
Dunedin scenes, include Princes and High Streets; Dunedin from
Roslyn; Gorge near Palmerston South;
Marlborough scenes include Upton Downs showing Mt Tapuaenuka;
36 ACLAND, L.G.D.
Blenheim and Nelson street scenes; The Grand Hotel, Timaru;
The Early Canterbury Runs.
Kaitangata,
Whitcoulls 1975, 4th edition revised by W.H. Scotter. 417p, illustrated.
Early card by Phillips Bros, Invercargill. Royal Hotel Waimate. The
25cms, DJ, spine sunned, VG.
Hermitage Mt Cook. Scenci scenes including Wanaka, Glenorchy, the
2. Janet Holm - Nothing but Grass and Wind. ChCh: Hazard Press 1992.
hotel at Clyde. etc. Mostly date from early 1900s and G. to VG.
279p, illus, 28cms, DJ, VG.
$300
$40 - $50
31 POSTCARDS, [52]
37 ACLAND, L.G.D.
Auckland and Suburbs
The Early Canterbury Runs.
Include mostly images from photographs Auckland central city street
Complete edition and Glossasry of Station Words. ChCh: W & T 1951.
scenes showing trams, horse & carriages and people; Cornwall Park;
427p, fldg map at end. 22cms, red buckram with gilt titles, VG.
Mt Eden from Ponsonby [real photo]; St Heliers; harbour and boating
$40
scenes; Fairy Fountain Auckland; Regatta Bay Cowes Bay; Troopers
Memorial Mt Albert; Lake Takapuna; Mt Eden from Auckland; Victoria 38 AMODEO, COLIN
Road, Devonport; Mt Eden street scene; Epsom from Mt Eden etc. Forgotten Forty-Niners
Most of the cards date from early 1900’s one or two later, and are G to being an acoount of the men and women who paved the way in 1849
VG. for the Canterbury Pilgrims in 1850.ChCh: The Caxton Press 2003.
$600 236p, illus, 29.5cms, illustrated card covers, near fine.
$40
32 POSTCARDS, [58]
Military and Ships 39 AMODEO, COLIN [2 titles]
43, postcards - They include real photographs by J. Dickie, The Summer Ships
S.S. Raranga, S.S. Essex, Star of India, S.S. Westmoreland. being an account of the first six ships sent out from England to New
S.S.Northumberland S.S. Berwickshire, S.S. Somerset, Westneath, S.S. Zealand by the Canterbury Association in 1850-1851. ChCh: The
Surrey, S.S. Argyleshire, Childrens Day aboard the Jervis Bay; etc. Some Caxton Press 2000. 358p, illus, 29.5cms, illustrated card covers, fine.
interior shipping shots. 2. The Mosquito Fleet of Canterbury. An impression of the years 1830-
15 photographs of military images, mostly real photographs 1870. ChCh: The Caxton Press 2005. 306p, illus, 29.5cms, illustrated
unnamed. card covers, fine.
$250 $40 - $60
40 ANON 49 DIAMOND, JOHN T.
Christchurch Orphan Asylum Report 1866 Once ... The Wilderness [Plus]
Christchurch: Printed at the Press 1867. Containing List of Subscribers, Auck: V.H. Wilkinson 1966 2nd ed. 224p, illus, fldg plate 22cms, card
Report and Table of Receipts and Expenditure. 12p, 16cms, original covers, light marks, VG
blue paper covers, VG. 2. John T. Diamond & Bruce W. Hayward - The Maori History and
$50 Legends of the Waitakere Ranges. Lodestar Press 1979. 48p, illus,
41 BAGNALL, A.G. map, card covers, VG.
Old Greytown 3. Arthur J. Heighway - Sir William Goodfellow. AuckL: Douglas
The Story of the First Hundred Years of Greytown’s Settlement 1854- Goodfellow 1972. Edition of 199 copies.45p, 25cms, original
1954. Greytown Borough Council 1958. 105p, illus. 25.3cms, orignal maroon cloth with gilt titles. VG.
green cloth with black titles, light marks on front board. 4. G. Allwright - A Brief Introduction to the Maori Colonisation of
$50 Manawatu. Ptd Palmerston North by Rabone, nd.
42 BEATTIE, HERRIES 50 DREAVER, A.J.
Pioneer Recollections [second series] Horowhenua County and its People [Plus]
Dealing chiefly with the Early Days of the Mataura Valley. Gore Pub Co A Centennial History. Dunmore Press 1984. 316p, illustrated,.27cms,
1911. 229p, iiip, 20.5cms, bound in plain cream papered boards. DJ, VG.
2. The Moa. When Did it Become Extinct. Maori Traditions and Pakeha 2. Merrilyn George - Ohakune. Opening to a new world. A
Conjectures. ODT and Witness nd. Exlib copy with papered boards District History. Ohakune: Kapai Enterprises Ltd 1990. 384p,
and marks. illustrated25cms, spine a little cocked, DJ spine faded.
3. S.A. Beck - Over the Junction Hill. Described and illustrated by $40
S.A.Beck, Dn: Wilkie and Co Print, nd. Small illustrated booklet on 51 EVANS, ALLISTER
Dunedin environs. The Silver Tussock
$40 - $60 A history of Holme Station, Craigmore, Maungati, Cannington,
43 BUICK, T LINDSAY Craigmore Downs, Motukaika, Upper Pareora and Alpine. Published
The French at Akaroa. by author 1975. 235p, illus. 22cms, DJ, VG.
An adventure in colonization. Well: NZ Book Depot 1928. 420p, frontis $30- $40
and plates, large fldg map of Banks Peninsula at end. 21.5cms, original 52 JACKSON, ELIZABETH T.
green cloth with gilt titles, VG. Delving into the Past of Auckland’s
44 CANTERBURY Eastern Suburbs. 8 sections in 5 volumes. Published by author,
3 Local Histories. reprints all published in 2005. Volume.1. Section 1. From Ancient
1. J.M. Sherrard - Kaikoura. A History of the District. Kaikoura Council Times to 1842 and Section 2. Orakei; Volume 2. Section 3.
1966. 372p, illus, spasmodic browning, spine mottled. DJ, 20.5cms, Meadowbank-St Johns; Volume 3. Section 4 and 5. Mission Bay and
G+ Kohimarama; Volume 4. Section 6. St Heliers; Volume 5. Sections 7 & 8
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45 CARLE, C.J. An account of the great days of quartz-mining at Reefton, Waiuta
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The story of the tribulations and triumphs of the settlement of protective covers, near fine.
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46 CHURCH, IAN Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival. Canterbury University
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The Old Frontier 55 LOGAN, ROBERT [signed]
Te Awamutu. The story of the Waipa Valley. The Missionary, The Waimakariri
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Life on the Maori Border and Later-day Settlement. Te Awamutu: signed by author 1987. 188p, illustrated, 36cms, DJ near fine copy.
The Waipa Post Ptg and Pub Co 1922. 104p, frontis and plates. Some $50 - $100
foxing, mostly front and back pages. 25cms, dark green cloth with gilt 56 MACINTOSH, JOAN
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The Deans Family of Riccarton. ChCh: Simpson and Williams 1964. 57 MAY, PHILLIP ROSS
178p, illus, fldg genealogy tables and facsimile at end. 22cms, DJ, VG. The West Coast Gold Rushes
$30 - $40 Pegasus 1967 [rev ed]. Owners inscription half title page. 559p, illus
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58 MULLON, HERBERT D. 7. D. Mundy - The days that are no More. Renwick, published by
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1st Jan, 1861 to 31st December 1864. Mongorei and New Plymouth 8. Harry Louis Moffatt - Adventures by sea and Land. Nelson Historical
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bound in cream card covers with blue cloth spine. $40 - $60
Typescript of the original diary [with illus] with short daily entries of 66 SKINNER, W.H. [ 2titles]
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Maori attacks, shipwrecks, earthquake etc. New Plymouth: Thomas Avery 1946. 122p, illus. frontis. Signature front
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A History of the West Coast Sounds, Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island, The 3. S. Percy Smith - An 1858 Journey into the Interior. New Plymouth:
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22.5cms, endpapers browned, original blue cloth with black titles, and Loco Soc 1976. Illustrated booklet.
light wear VG. $60 - $100
$100 - $150 67 THE NELSONIAN
60 NEW ZEALAND AND, REGIONAL HISTORIES Nelson College Magazine
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published 1976 card covers, light wear.
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1776-1987. CHZ “Ars Polona” Warsaw 1990.228p, illus. 29.5cms, blue Nelson. NZ Rail & Lcoc Society 1975, 2nd ed. 27p, illus booklet, VG.
cloth, mildew damage. 4. E.J. McClare - The NZR Garratt Story. NZ RAil & Loco Society 1978.
61 NEW ZEALAND COMPANY 100p, illus, 24.5cms, DJ, VG.
Latest Information from the Settlement of $40 - $60
New Plymouth, on the Coast of Taranaki, New Zealand. Comprising 69 WARD, JOHN
Letters from Settlers There; ...London: Smith, Elder & Co 1842. 57p, New Zealand. Nelson, The Latest Settlement
frontis, adverts. 19cms, original paper covers, VG near fine copy. of the New Zealand Company. London: Smith Elder and Co 1842. 44p,
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62 PINNEY, ROBERT
Early South Canterbury Runs.
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copy.
63 PINNEY, ROBERT [signed] New Zealand & Pacific
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64 REGIONAL HISTORIES
4 Volumes 70 ANGAS, GEORGE FRENCH
1. William Maughan - Good and Faithful Servants. Waiata and The New Zealanders Illustrated.
Imperial Publishing Co 1974. Edition of 150 copies. Folio, dedication page, pictorial title page, and 60 lithograph plates
Inscribed by author. 211p, 22cms, brown leatherette cloth, gilt titles, all finely hand coloured from Angas’s original sketches and paintings.
VG. Bound. London, Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket 1847.
2. Carl Allingham - Golden Secrets. A Social History of Waihi from Some spotting on the plates, one or two light tide marks, smudging
Living Memory. Waihi: GO Waihi Inc 2000. Collectors 1st edition. on fore edges. Old professional restorations to margins of several
143p, illus. 29.5cms, card covers, near VG. pages, text opposite plate VII torn with repair, loss to the last 3 lines.
3. H.E. Holland - The Tragic Story of the Waihi Strike. Hocken Library An important early New Zealand binding in full dark green morocco
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4. C.J. Roberts - Centennial History of Hawera and the Waimate Plains. a decorative gilt border. The spine, with the original title labels is gilt
Hawera Pub Co [1939]. 5 l., 395p, illustrated, 25cms, green cloth gilt panelled with the biblical quotation from Genesis “After their families,
titles. After their Tongues, In their Lands...” which appears on the title page.
Marbled fore and endpapers with gilt stamped fleur de lis borders. All
65 REGIONAL HISTORIES edges gilt.
8 South Island Histories.
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2. G. L. Burdon - Tall Hills and Tight Lines. Signed and published by executed in New Zealand.
author. Exlib. Loosely enclosed a letter signed by R. Coupland Harding
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author. DJ. up for sale at Bethunes in 1906 and advising the recipient. “It is a grand
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Original paper covers with illustration, VG. $22-000 - $25,000
6. D. Mundy - Theres Gold in Them Hills. ChCh: Simpson & Williams,
nd. 132p, 22cms, paper wrappers, edges rubbed.71 ANON 77 BREES, S.C.
The Southern Monthly Magazine Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand
Vol. II - March 1864. Auckland: Creighton and Scales 1864. 384p, Ln: John Williams and Co 1849. 36p of text,
moderate to heavy foxing. engravings on 22plates each with multiple views, one a panoramic
Includes ‘The Waikato Campaign 1863-1864’, ‘Our Colonisation plate. Sprinkle of foxing, a few short marginal tears and gutter split at
Scheme; ‘German Immigration to the Waikato’, etc. Bound in original centre of panoramic plate. 38cms, recased in original red binding with
maroon, cloth split along hinges and mottled. decorative gilt and titles. Wear to edges.
$200 $600 - $800
72 BAKER, SHIRLEY WALDEMAR [2 titles] 78 BREES, S.C.
Koe Hisitolia o Mamani Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand.
Ko Hono Paaki Tuo Ua. Toga: Kuo Buluji Maae G. Lautohi 1884. 60p, London: John Williams and Co 1847, first edition. Engravings by Henry
Old testament history, ancient Tongan language. Original pink paper Melville. 6p, 36p, illus title page, complete with plates including fldg
coivers. panorama and 2 large folding maps. Text mostly clean, sprinkle of
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G. Lautohi 1884.Original mauve paper covers, signatures on both glue has dried out. Folio [52cms] in original green blind stamped cloth
covers. blocked with gilt titles, some marks and fading, corners and spine
Baker was Head of Missions in Tonga and Prime Minister. A ends worn.
disagreement arose with the Wesleyan authorities in 1879 and Baker ‘Brees sketches were made during his field service as principal
established an independent body ‘Free Church of Tonga. Some of the Surveyor to the New zealand Company from FEb. 1842 until 1845. The
natives were loyal to the old church and strong feeling was aroused Published series is a collection of enduring significance...’ Bagnall 647
which resulted in an attempt to shoot Baker in 1887. He survived and $800 - $1200
died in 1903. 79 BRYCE, JOHN
$100 - $200 Bryce v Rusden
73 BARRAUD, C.D. In the High Court of Justice...Before Baron Huddleston and a Special
New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive Jury Bryce V Rusden. Ln: Waterlow Bros & Layton Printers. Caption title,
Edited by W.T.L. Travers. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1 l., 634p. Second issue published in 1887 with [635] - 638]p, Report of
Searle and Rivington 1877. Folio [56 x 44cms]. vp, 24 mounted Proceedings on Motion for new trial, fldg map. 21 cms original black
chromolithographs including colour illustrated title page, [lacking cloth, errata on preliminary leaf. In original black cloth worn at edges,
plate of Picton Harbour] plain lithographs on 6 l., 31 woodcuts, with protective plastic covering, taped onto boards.
map. A few small tape repairs at page margins, and light foxing and A full report of Rusden’s trial for libel in March 1886, arising from his
fingernarks, Text block has been sewn and it has been recased in the statements about Bryce, and in particular the affair at Handley’s wool
original half brown morocco with russet cloth boards and gilt motif, shed, Nukumaru...Baganll 724a
spine and corners rubbed. $100 - $150
$800 - $1000 80 COOK JAMES, KEARSLEY . G
74 BATEMAN, WILLIAM A Compendious History of Captain Cook’s [plus]
The Colonist: Last Voyage, performed in the years 1776, `777 `778, `779 and 1780 in
A work on the past and present position of the Colony of New which is added alll the interesting transactions, particularly relative to
Zealand. ChCh: J.T. Smith and Co 1881. 486, 22cms, original red cloth, his unfortunate death...London: G. Kearsley 1784. 315p, frontis, fldg
gilt titles. Old damp damge to binding, contents clean. chart [repaired].
$40 - $60 2 Lady Belcher - The Mutineers of the Bounty and their Descendants
75 BAUCKE, WILLIAM in Pitcairn and Norfold Islands.NY: Harper and Brothers [1870]377p,
Where the Whiteman Treads [Plus] adverts at end, frontis, plates. 19.5cms
Across the Pathway of the Maori. Auck: Wilson and Horton 1905, first 3 Herbert Compton - A Master Mariner Being the Life and Aventures
edition. 3 l., 307p, some foxing mostly on endpapers, inscribed frot of Captain Robert William Eastwick. London: T. Fisher Unwin 1891.
endpaper. 22.5cms, original decorative black cloth with gilt. VG. xiv, 351p, frontis, illus. 21.5cms.
2. Andreas Reischek - Yesterdays in Maoriland. N.Z. W & T 1952 4 W. Charles Metcalfe - Undaunted A Story of the Solomon lands. Ln:
reissue. DJ, VG. John F. Shaw nd [ca 1956]288p. illus. 19cms.
3. Percy Smith - Hawaiki. The Original Home of the Maori. ChCh, 5 A.J.A. Douglas & P.H. Johnson - The South Seas of Today. Account of
Well etc: W & T 1904. 223p, illus, fldg map & fldg genealogy table. the cruise of the Yacht St George to the South Pacific. Caassell & Co
18.5cms, Green half cloth, gilt titles. 1926. 295p, plates.
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76 BLIGH, CAPTAIN 81 COOPER, NEILL J.
Pitcairn [ 6 volumes] Preserved NZR Locomotives and Railcars. [Plus]
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Knowledge 1929. 182p, plates, fascimiles, fldg map. Qtr cloth. fine.
2. John Marshall - Royal Naval Biography of Peter Heywood Esq. 2. Geoffrey B. Churchman & Tony Hurst - The Railways of New
One of the survivors of the Mutiny on the Bounty. NY; George R. Zealand. Collins 1990, 1st ed. 218p, 7p, illustrated, maps. 29.5cms,
Gormannd, 77p. blue cloth gilt titles. DJ, VG.
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Chambers. [ca 1880’s] 143p, illus, 28cms, DJ spine sunned, VG.
5. R.M. Ballantyne - The Lonely Island or The Refuge of the Mutineers. 82 CRUISE, RICHARD A.
Ln: James Nisbet. Illustrated cloth binding. Journal of a Ten Months’ Residence
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1922. Blue cloth. vi, 327p, errata slip tipped into back page. 23cms, bound in original
7. Laurence Irving - Bligh and the Bounty. Methuen 1936. Blue cloth. printers boards binding with paper spine and title label. Book plate of
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All vols G. to VG.83 DESPATCHES FROM THE GOVERNOR 90 HURSTHOUSE, CHARLES
Further Papers Relative to the Recent Disturbances in New Zealand, The Emigration Field of 1851.
New Zealand. An Account of New Plymouth; or Guide to the Garden of New Zealand.
London: HMSO 1862. [In continuation of Papers presented in March Third Edition. D Chalmers (1851) And an Article on the Canterbury
1861.] vi, 98p. Includes a large fldg map by John Arrowsmith 1861 Settlement. xv, 1 l., 195p, lacking frontis [map], exlib copy with rubber
“Map of New Zealand, showing the Relative Amount of Native and stamp on title page and library number penned verso. Title page neat
Ceded Lands.” Inset Map showing the relative amount of native and tape repairs, browning, bound in later HC with the original marbled
ceded lands in the Province of Taranaki. Charles Heaphy Provincial boards. Rare
Surveyor Auckland 5th April 1861.” Hand coloured 60.5 x 49.5cms. $100
Bound in with Copy of Correspondence between the Secretary of 91 MARTIN, JOHN
State for the Colonies and the Governor of New Zealand. 1863. 16p. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands
32.5cms, modern dark blue cloth with gilt spine titles in the South Pacific Ocean. In two volumes. Ln: Printed for the author
$250 - $500 and sold by John Murray 1817, first edition. Vol.1. lix, 460p, frontis.
84 ELLIS, WILLIAM Vol.2. 412p followed by Vocabulary in Tonga and English and English
Polynesian Researches [4 volumes] and Tonga, unpaginated. Contents clean, fore edges browned,
During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich rebound in modern HC binding.
Islands. A new edition, enlarged and improved. London: Henry G. $200 - $300
Bohn 1853. In four volumes. All volumes have frontispieces and title 92 MARTIN, JOHN
page vignettes with tissue guards, plates and text illustrations, 414p, An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands
438p, 407, 496pp. 18cms bound in original green blindstamped cloth in the Pacific Ocean... In two volumes. Edinburgh: Constable and
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pages, edge wear. vignettes, browning, rebound in qtr brown cloth with marbled boards.
$150 - $200 $75
85 GILL, REV. WILLIAM 93 MEAD, MARGARET
Gems from The Coral Islands; An Inquiry into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia.
or, incidents of contrast between Savage and Christian Life of the NY: Colombia University Press 1928. 89p, 24.5cms, original brown
South Sea Islanders. 2 volumes. London: Ward and Co 1856. Vol.I. cloth with gilt spine titles, a few light marks, VG.
Western Polynesia. xv, 243p, publishers adverts at end. Vol. II. Eastern
Polynesia. xvi, 94 MEADE, HERBERT
1 l., 320p. both volumes complete with illustrations. 19.5cms, bound A Ride Through the Disturbed Districts
in original red cloth blind stamped and with gilt illustrations and titles. of New Zealand, Together with some account of the South Sea Islands.
VG. London John Murray 1870, first edition. x, 1 l., 375p, 32p publishers
$150 adverts, frontis, illustration, 2 maps. Text block is cocked with light
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86 GILL, WILLIAM [Presentation copy] titles.
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87 GULLY, JOHN 96 MOILLET, JAMES KOIE [J K M ]
New Zealand Scenery The Mary Ira
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Gully with descriptive letterpress by Dr Julius Von Haast. Dunedin: the South Sea Islands and A Pedestrian Tour in a new District of New
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Correspondence Relative to New Zealand. 97 MORLEY, REV. WILLIAM
London: W. Clowes 1840. 69pp. foxing. Details discussion over the The History of Methodism in New Zealand.
appointment of a British Consul; Intention to send Captain Hobson Well: McKee & Co 1900. xvi, 510p, 1.l., frontis, profusely illus from
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$100- $200 98 MULGAN, DAVID
89 HURSTHOUSE, CHARLES The Kiwi’s First Wings.
An Account of the Settlement The story of the Walsh brothers and the New Zealand flying School
of New Plymouth in New Zealand, from personal observation, during 1910-24. Well: Wingfield Press 1960. 150p, illus. 22cms, tape marks on
a residence there of five years. London: Smith, Elder and Co 1849. xvi, endpapers, DJ.else VG
160p, 30p of adverts at end, 5 full page plates, lacking fldg plan. Some $50
early damp damage impacting on the top gutter margin of last pages.
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$100 - $20099 McNAB, ROBERT [3 vols] Zealand. [1890]; Samuel Vaile - The Government and the Working
Historical Records of New Zealand Man.[1898]; W.N. Blair - The Industries of New Zealand. An Address.
Two volumes. Well: Govt Ptr 1908 and 1914. 21.5 cms, both in original [1887]; Thomas Mulvany - New Zealand Products and Manufacturers
brown cloth with gilt titles, light wear, VG copies. [1880]; W.L. Rees - The Coming Crisis [1874]; William Leys - An Address
2. From Tasman to Marsden. A History of Northern New Zealand from upon Protection to Local Industries...[1887]; F.Oswald Barnett - The
1642 to 1818. Dunedin: J Wilkie and Co 1914. 236p, browning on New Testament Basis of Pacifism. [1941]; W.J. Napier - The Mission of
front and back pages, lacking front free endpaper. 22cms, green the New Zealand Democracy [1892]; Howard League - New Zealand
cloth with gilt and black titles, VG. Prisons Conditions Exposed; The NZ Taxpayers Shoret Catechism.
$50 - $100 [1890]; Vindication of the Liberals! Political Address by Mr Napier
[1893] William P. Frye US Senator - Why I am a Protectionist; Theodore
100 NEW ZEALAND COMPANY
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Arrangements for the Adjustments of Questions
of Violence; Broadsheet - Union of Federation of Labour, NZ, Review of
Relating to Land in the Settlements of the New Zealand Company.
Strike 1913.
London: Stewart and Murray Old Bailey 1848. ii, 76pp [last page
Condition varies but seem to be mostly complete some covers loose
blank.] 21.5cms, orignal brown paper covers, lightly discoloured, a VG
and lacking.
copy.
Correspondence and articles relating to early land settlement 107 PROTEST
between the company its officers and Earl Grey mainlty dealing with In New Zealand
problems in Nelson. 1. Rugby Programme - New Zealand Vs South Africa. , Eden Park, 12th
$150 - $250 September1981. Third Test.
2. Calendar - Days of Rage. The 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand,
101 NEW ZEALAND COMPANY
1982 clendar.
Letters from Settlers & Labouring Emigrants
3. C.A.R.E. 1973 The Springbok Tour ?. Pamphlet giving reasons wht
in the New Zealand Company’s Settlements of Wellington, Nelson, &
the tour should be cancelled. Also Aprol 1973 issue of CARE.
New Plymouth from February, 1842, to January 1843. London: Smith
4. M. Freeman & R. Hollins [editors] - Arms Linked. Women Against
Elder and Co 1843. v, 211p, 2 l., of publishers adverts. 18cms, Original
the Tour. Poetry and Prose by NZ women opposed to the
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Springbok tour. Published by editors 1982.
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5. Pamphlet - The Story Behind a War. Well: Committee on Vietnam.
102 NICHOLAS, JOHN LIDDIARD Ptd at the Caxton Press Christchurch.
Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, 6. J. de Bres & R. Campbell - The Overstayers. Illegal migratuin rom the
Performed in the Years 1814 and 1815 in company with the Rev. Pacific to NZ. Auckland Resource Centre for World Development
Samuel Marsden, Principal Chaplain of New South Wales. In two 1976. Also - Booklet- Worth their Weight in Gold. Booklet on
volumes. London James Black and Son 1817, first edition. Tongan migration ti NZ.
Vol.I. xx, 431p, frontis [port], 1 fldg plate, 1 fldg map. Vol.II. xii, 397p, 7, Tom Newnham - Peace Squadron. The sharp end of nuclear protest
frontis, 1 plate, 1 map, directions to the binder and errata. Light in New Zeland. Auck: Graphic Pub 1986. 60p, 27cms,
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