Search Results: Titles starting with N from The Last Word

Wellington, New Zealand: Newrick AssociatesLtd, 1983. First printing. Cards. Very Good. 248 pp. Card covers - some vertical creases in front cover Lots of contemporary adverts from the auction houses and antique shops.

Wellington, New Zealand: Beltane Book Bureau, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. Each monograph is a limited editon of 500 This is a plain cloth covered board book with no titles. A Series of 6 bound monographs bound in one volume. 1: White's Ancient History of the Maori 2: The Best New Zealand Books 3: Mansfieldiana A Brief Katherine Mansfield Bibliography; 4: New Zealand Book-Plates Illustrated History and Bibliography N.Z. Collectors' Monographs No. 4 5: The Caxton Press: Some Impressions & A Bibliography N.Z. 6: A Katherine Mansfield Enthusiast The work of Guy N Morrus by P A Lawlor 1951. At the rear is bound in Ponga and Puhihuia from the original Maori by Rev. H J Fletcher 22pp. then a booklet Rainbows around th e lake - a booklet about Lake Tutira 16 pp but not numbered.

Christchurch: New Zealand Monthly Review Society Inc, 1993. Paperback. Near Fine. 184 pages, index, list of tables.

Wellington, New Zealand, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Large octavo, 1170pp., photo illustrations, map in rear pocket, printed hardcover. Federal Reserve Bank ownership stamp inside front cover and on title page. Number at heel of spine, Map in pocket at rear. Dust jacket a bit scuffed at top and bottom edges. Map in mint condition - Map of New Zealand 1:2,000,000 NZMS 84A June 1969

Washington DC: Genera Crown Lands Officel, 1888. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 14 pages. Has a General Assembly library NZ monogramme to front cover Withdrawn plate inside on FEPs.

Auckland, New Zealand: Godwit Publishing Limited, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Nancy Tichborne. ISBN 090887748x. small pen insciption "Christmas 1995" Signed by author. 120 pages. super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated eps, illustrated.

London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, c. 1870. Leather_bound. Very Good. Undated. 160 + 160 + 160 pages. Front gilt and embossed leather cover detached. top 40mm of spine missing. Some foxing to endpapers. Text block in great condition. Contains three series of portraits. All colour lithographs are in great condition with uncreased tissue guards. Frontispiece of Gladstone. Each section has 160 pages and 20 portraits with 8 pages of text per person making 60 portraits in all. All page edges gilt. . Subjects include John Ruskin, Disraeli, Major-General Sir Garnet Wolsely, Thomas Carlyle, The Earl of Dufferin, W. H. Smith, Tennyson, Hon. Alexander MacKenzie, Sir John A. MacDonald etc. Very heavy book - please enquire about shipping costs to your country.

Wellington, New Zealand: School Publications Branch, 1947. Paperback. Very Good. New Zealand Education Department. 60 pages

London: Harvill Press, 1969. First printing. hardcover. Near Fine/very good. orange cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pictorial brown and red dust jacket. - very minor scuffs to edges. Some foxing spots to page edges.

Edinburgh: W H Lizars, 1834. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, 175, plus 53 pages advertising at rear pages, frontis of Sir thomas Stamford Raffles , colour / colour illustrated engraved title of Red Grouse family. 31 fine hand colour / colored steel engravings of birds.(minus 4 missing: 3,17, 18, 20 ) Dark brown cloth. Gold embossed spine. Plates sell for up to $75 each. largely disbound - spine, front qand rear boardw all seperate. Some text blocks and plates are loose. Sir William Jardine Baronet was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. After originally studied medicine in Edinburgh and Paris he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume covers with birds of prey including falcons, eagles, ospreys, buzzards, etc.

Edinburgh: W H Lizars, 1839. First printing. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, 409 pages, frontis, illustrated colour / colored engraved title & 32 fine hand colour / colored steel engravings of birds. (32 stated but includes frontispiece and title page) Gold embossed spine. Original brown cloth covers. The plates are bound at rear in this volume. Many uncut pages. Plates are split into three lots and detached from rest of book. Plates sell for up to $75 each. Little foxing seen. Binding is good but the rear cover is loose from the spine. All plates are here. Some mason bee stains to rear cover. Sir William Jardine Baronet was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. After originally studied medicine in Edinburgh and Paris he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume covers with birds of prey including falcons, eagles, ospreys, buzzards, etc.

Edinburgh: W H Lizars, 1838. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 315 pages, frontis, illustrated engraved title & 34 fine hand colour / colored steel engravings of birds. Original brown cloth covers - original green endpapers split at front with rear one intact. Gold embossed spine. Original brown cloth covers - boards and spine detached from pages. two 1/2" splits to top of spine. and a two inch split between spine and back board at top. The plates are bound in at the rear of this volume. Plates sell for up to $75 each. Some foxing on initial pages and some to cover pages to plates but little else seen. Some pages still unsplit at tops. Sir William Jardine Baronet was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. After originally studied medicine in Edinburgh and Paris he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume covers with birds of prey including falcons, eagles, ospreys, buzzards, etc.

Edinburgh: W H Lizars, 1842. First printing. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, 349 pages, frontis, illustrated colour / coloured engraved title & 34 fine hand colour / colored steel engravings of birds. Gold embossed spine. Original brown cloth covers. The plates are bound at rear in this volume. Plates sell for up to $75 each. Little foxing seen. Binuding is good but the spine is totally detached but included. Sir William Jardine Baronet was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. After originally studied medicine in Edinburgh and Paris he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume covers with birds of prey including falcons, eagles, ospreys, buzzards, etc.

london: John Murray, 1888. Later printing. Leather_bound. Very Good. Contemporary three quarter leather binding by Mudie. seventeenth thousand 519 pages including index plus i to ix preface. Beautiful /leather binding with raised bands to spine. Gilded lettering, ruled lines and design to spine with the title on a black leather .background. Attractive marbled boards and endpapers. Tan calf leather in good condition - some surface loss to the corner pieces . All page ends also marbled - the pages edges are quite perfect with a noticeable gloss to them.

Edinburgh: W H Lizars, 1838. First printing. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, 256 pages, frontis. of Haller, colour / color illustrated engraved title 33 fine hand colour / colored steel engravings of birds from Western Africa. (33 includes frontispiece and coloured title page. Gold embossed spine. Plates sell for up to $75 each. Some pages still unsplit at tops. Split between front endpaper and spine. rear end papers intact. Some binding is a little loos but intact. Two splits at head of spine 1/2 inch and 1/4 inch. Sir William Jardine Baronet was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. After originally studied medicine in Edinburgh and Paris he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume covers with birds of prey including falcons, eagles, ospreys, buzzards, etc.

Edinburgh: W H Lizars, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, 177 pages, frontis of Sir Joseph Banks, colour / color illustrated engraved title of a fish. 36 fine hand colour / colored steel engravings of fish. (But missing 5 plates: 1, 4, 11, 15, and 28) Dark brown cloth. - boards and spine somewhat grubby and stained. End papers intact but many of the plates are loose. Gold embossed spine. Plates sell for up to $99 each. Sir William Jardine Baronet was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. After originally studied medicine in Edinburgh and Paris he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume covers with birds of prey including falcons, eagles, ospreys, buzzards, etc.

Edinburgh: W H Lizars, 1837. First printing. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, 263 pages, frontis, color illustrated engraved title & 34 fine hand colour / colored steel engravings of birds from Western Africa. (32 includesfrontis and colour / colored title page. Gold embossed spine. Plates sell for up to $75 each. new endpapers with an old inscription bouind in at the rear. A ligther brown cloth has been laid over the spine and part of front and rear boads onscuring the original spine. Some pages still unsplit at tops. Sir William Jardine Baronet was a 19th Century Scottish naturalist. After originally studied medicine in Edinburgh and Paris he was captivated by the natural sciences. He founded the Magazine of Zoology and Botany in 1837. This volume covers with birds of prey including falcons, eagles, ospreys, buzzards, etc.

London: Humphrey Milford Oxford Press,, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine. 14 x 11 cm original color illustrated boards,62 pp with color frontis,

London: Chapman & Hall, 1926. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Various. [United States] Chapman & Hall 1926 First English Edition Cloth Fine no jacket Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 120 (but three mssing so actually 117) Photographs of Various Nationalities selected by Dr Peter Landow. Printed in Germany. [First German edition was published as 'Natur und Kultur-Das Weib', Berlin, klassische und neue kunst, 1925. ] Royal blue cloth with gold lettering on front and decorative spine. . Photography. Women-Photographers. Photography-1920s-nudes. Antiquarian. Rare) 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Photos by Landrock & Lehnert, Drtikol, Hoppe and many others. Individual plates of nudes by these artists can fetch $100 to $200 each. Missing plates 12, 50 and 72

Clement, Crosby Rockwood and Son, 1896. Full-Leather. Very Good. Clement, Crosby Rockwood and Son, Architectural, 6, 1896, , Leather, 700 pp, All edges gilded, Black leather with gold lettering Good condition - some light paint spots to rear.,