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Colonies Books & Ephemera
A Catalogue and History of Cottage Chairs .. (in Australia)
by Peter Cuffley & Kevin Carney
1974 1st Ed hb+dw Larger Format col+b&w illus 175 pages EX-LIBRARY Quite heavily worn, handled & marked ex-library, but quite sound copy nonetheless of sought-after title in FIRST EDITION HARDBACK. Rear Reference section of 25 pages reproduces heavily illustrated catalogues from Feldheim 1905, American 1908, Hunter & Alexander 1909, Lasseter 1914, Pears 1930 etc etc, and together with deeper discussions of Windsor, Bentwood, Kangaroo & other styles, affords identification by name for...
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NZ$50.00
Early Castlepoint
by The Castlepoint Historical Committee
First years in a pioneer settlment, compiled in honour of the centenary 1848-1948.
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NZ$70.00
Home Away from Home
by Manying Ip
8 Chinese-New Zealander Women talk about their lives prior to and after emigrating to NZ. B+w photos.
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NZ$30.00
Colonial Fare .. Pioneering Women .. in NZ ..
by Jill Brewis
1982 1st Ed h/b+dw, Larger Format Oblong, old b&w photos, sepia decorations & recipe insets 179 pages Content substantially clean & tight (light foxing & smudges on prelims only), penned inscription fep, dw has no tears but along the long open edges has bled some of the chocolate colour staining the hard covers below slightly, but which are otherwise unrubbed Providing for the essential domestic needs of Colonial times, house & furniture, kitchen organisation & utensils,...
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NZ$55.00
The Pacific Islanders
by William Howells
Anthropology of Pacifc Islanders, illustrated with b+w photos.
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NZ$22.00
Fatal Success
by Patricia Burns
History of E.G. Wakefield & The NZ Company, illustrated with b+w photos.
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NZ$55.00
The Cook Islands, 1820-1950
by Richard Gibson
Story of the Cook Islands between 1820 and 1950.
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NZ$32.50
Ship on Shore
by Jane Foster
History of 'Osprey' and crew, 1846 NZ shipwreck, accompanied by b+w illustrations and col. photos.
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NZ$35.00
A Colonist's Voyage to New Zealand
by Alfred Fell
1843 Diary of Colonist Ship to NZ, 'Lord Auckland' with a foreword by Arthur Fell, son of Alfred Fell, whose voyage diaries are presented in this text.
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NZ$35.00
Gold in the River
by F.W.G. Miller
Good condition, pages tight, a few b+w illustrations. Front bottom right corner a little bruised and slight foxing on top block. Author's story of gold mining during the depression years of the 1930's.
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NZ$22.50
Missionary & Maori : 'Kiddy-Kiddy ... A Church Missionary Establishment' Kerikeri 1819-1860
by Nola Easdale
Easdale's account of interactions between Maori and missionaries in the further North Island, mid-19th century. Accompanied by col illustrations.
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NZ$20.00
Curtain-raiser to a Colony
by Cecil and Celia Manson
Stories from NZ's Founding as a Colony, including b + w photos and illustrations.
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NZ$25.00
Molesworth
by L.W. McCaskill
1969 1st Edition h/b + dw, larger format, b&w photos Clean & tight, penned name half-title, closed edges sl handled, gilt spine-titles on vg orange cloth with the merest hint of edge-rubbing, unusually good bright dw with sl edge-tainting but no chipping or tears ..[true ed-1 dw with laminationonly partly into front flap].., all in all a most collectible copy of the SCARCE FIRST EDITION Classic on Marlborough/Canterbury high back country VG FIRST EDITION McCaskill's
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NZ$110.00
The White Ensign in New Zealand
by J.O'C. Ross
History of the Naval Base at Waitemata, NZ illustrated with b+ w photos.
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NZ$25.00
The Life of Sir Frederick Weld - A Pioneer of Empire
by Alice, Lady Lovat
Biography of British Colonial Governor Frederick Weld, illustrated with b+w photos.
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NZ$50.00
Hidden Valley
by Rona Adshead
A little gem with numerous b+w photographs. Penned inscription on title page.
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NZ$70.00
A History of Croydon Siding (1856-1985)
by Alex Dickie ... (edited by Paula Dickie)
1985 1st Edition (Privately Published), hb/dw, Larger Format, b&w photos, 151 pages, AUTHOR-SIGNED
Almost 'as new' copy (fine), author-signed else inscription-free, gilt spine-titles on lovely rust cloth, a little superficial handling to absorbent soft-paper dw – SCARCE & VG/VG
Eastern Southland, along the famous Mataura River and through the plains of the Waimea, up against the Hokonuis. First of a twin-volume same-format pairing of histories by the Dickies on the Croydon district.
Almost 'as new' copy (fine), author-signed else inscription-free, gilt spine-titles on lovely rust cloth, a little superficial handling to absorbent soft-paper dw – SCARCE & VG/VG
Eastern Southland, along the famous Mataura River and through the plains of the Waimea, up against the Hokonuis. First of a twin-volume same-format pairing of histories by the Dickies on the Croydon district.
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NZ$105.00
Te Puea -- a biography
by Michael King
A biography or Te Puea with a focus on her involvement with the Maori King Movement, illustrated in sepia.Text generally clean but covers edges moderately rubbed with sunned patch front, in tatty dw.
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NZ$32.50
Pacific Explorer
by John Dunmore
Biography of the eighteenth-century Pacific Explorer La Perouse, accompanied by b+w illustrations.
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NZ$45.00
Colonial Fare
by Jill Brewis
Domestic challenges of NZ's pioneer settler women, b&w photos + illus,
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NZ$26.50
My Dear Bennie
by Gerhard Mueller
Hard Cover, b+w photos. Green Cloth, Gilt Lettering on spine. Neatly penned name on inside fly leaf.
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NZ$50.00
Astride the River -- A History of Hamilton
by P.J Gibbons
1977 1st Edition h/b + dw, b&w photos Tight & cleanish with some foxing of closed-edges esp top, penned name & sm patch stickerresidue fep, gilt spine-titles on vg unrubbed orange cloth, a few closed tears to top of dw & dw-edges rubbed, rear flap creased History of Hamilton ..(Gibbons 1971)
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NZ$36.00
An Economic History of New Zealand to 1939
by M.F. Lloyd Prichard
Part of Fontana series of economic histories
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NZ$20.00
A Vision of Eden -- Life and Work of Marianne North
by Marianne North
1980 Edition h/b Larger Format col plates Very clean & tight, inscription-free, gilt spine-&-front titling on vg unrubbed brown cloth, lacks dw -- VG. Mostly material first published 1893 in 'Recollections of a Happy Life' involving world-wide travels (incl Aust & NZ), now together with plates of her paintings (incl views of Mt Earnslaw & Otira Gorge), but mainly representations of plant life on display at Kew Gardens Marianne North -- Vict Plant Painter (incl
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NZ$35.00
