Search Results: Authors starting with A from Tinakori Books

Melbourne: Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1888. Book. Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 179 pages. Old name on front endpaper. Wear on the spine. A reference to the General Grant wrecked on the Auckland Islands mentions that this ship had 20,000 pound sterling worth of gold on it when it sank..

Melbourne: Edwards, Dunlop &Co., 1888. Book. Good. Red Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 179 pages. Old inscription on a preliminary page. Professionally rebacked, stain at bottom of pages up to page xii. A reference to the General Grant wrecked on the Auckland Islands mentions that this ship had 20,000 pound sterling worth of gold on it when it sank..

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. viii, [ii], 303; [vi], 295 pages, frontispiece illustration and a folding map in volume 1. Small repair to the map. Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, linguist and poet. He is famous for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. .

Coromandel, New Zealand: Ponwinkle Publications, 1978. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 68 pages, many b/w illustrations. Ex-General Assembly Library new Zealand. This publication is on postal history and postcard historical references to Japan in Pacific Wars. Japanese military postcards, Russo Japanese War, patriotic postcards, War at Sea, Victory at Port Arthur, World War I and after..

Bathurst: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 1999. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First English Edition. 241 pages. Migrating over centuries from New Ireland, the Tolai or Gunantuna people live on the volcanic Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea..

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851. Book. Good. Original Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 351, 32; xi, 371 pages. 4 beautiful colour plates showing scenes in Tahiti. Rebacked some time ago, original spine laid down, one small area of wormholing on gutter of front endpaper in vol. 1. From the collection of James Lyle Young with his name on the title page. Young was a Pacific trader who later on lived in Papeete, Tahiti..

Wanganui, No Date (ca.1900): A.D. Willis Book. Good. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Card Covers. 6th Edition. Frontcover and titlepage detached 40 pages. Despite going through 10 editions this little Maori conversation booklet is scarce. Advertisements on rear cover suggest a publication date of ca. 1900..

Papakura, No Date (ca. 1990): Southern Reprints Book. Fine. Soft cover. Facsimile Reprint. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Facsimile Reprint of 9th Edition. 43 pages. Despite going through 10 editions this little Maori conversation booklet is scarce (probably because of its size)..

Wanganui, No Date (ca.1920): A.D. Willis Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Card Covers. 10th Edition. 47 pages. Despite going through 10 editions this little Maori conversation booklet is very scarce (probably because of its size). Published ca. 1920. Lacks front endpaper..

Dalston: G.B. Moore & Co., 1912. Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. iv, 183 pages. Rare poetic work on the discovery and settlement of New Zealand..

Wellington: Reed, 1981. Book. Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 587 pages, illustrations. Gift inscription on front endpaper.

London: Oxford University Press, 1955. Book. Good. Green Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 277 pages. old name on front endpaper..

London: Ward, Lock, 1884. Book. Very Good. Pictorial Cover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No publication date but Sunday school prize label on front endpaper is dated 1884. 384 pages, frontispiece and 9 other b/w illustrations. All edges gilt. Nice and bright covers. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643 - 1687) was a 17th century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. He is best known for an early 1682 expedition in which he canoed the lower Mississippi River from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France..

Macau: Macau Museum of Art, 2001. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ca. 100 pages with photographs. The text is in Chinese and English..

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xi, 732 pages. Uncirculated clean ex-library copy.

Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 128 pages, colour illustrations, maps. Spine sunned. From the ABC-TV series..

Dunedin: Privately Published, 1962. Book. Nearly Very Good. Red Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 61 pages, 9 b/w photos. Ex-library, clean..

Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1976. Book. Very Good. Grey Cloth. First Edition. 91 pages. Clean ex-library book..

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853. Book. Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. viii, 92, xi pages, frontispiece, 4 folding plates (all present). Rebound in blue cloth, title and blue colour on the spine is partially worn off. Plate II is complete, a little worn and has old repairs. The other plates and the frontispiece are in very good condition. The author spent 10 weeks in Canterbury, New Zealand. He gives his impressions of Lyttelton, Banks Pensinsula and Christchurch, with observations of sheep farming stations etc..

Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1942. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 87 pages, frontispiece and other illustrations. Published in the Whitcomb'e Story Books series, No. 530. Children's book fro ages 10-12. No publication date but gift inscription on front endpaper is dated 1942.