Rare books from Tinakori Books

London: Boone, 1847. Book. Good. Brown Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xx, 544, 12 pages advertising. Frontispiece and 6 other b/w plates, 7 text illustrations. Endpapers are reinforced with old grey paper, bookplate removed from front pastedown, old newspaper clipping from 1895 on the death of John Roper, pasted on front flyleaf..

Wellington: Government Printer, 1873. Book. Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Vol. I of the two volume set. 27, 53, 339 pages, 18 maps. Original binding. Very rare book on the history of the South Island..

London: John Murray, 1807. Book. Good. Full-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 110 pages, frontispiece and 2 other plates. Later red leather binding, lacking ca. 2mm at top of spine. The first book devoted entirely to New Zealand. Much on Maori. Bagnall #5019..

Paris Book. Good. Full-Leather. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. 106 geographical tables. This copy has tables from various editions with printing dates from 1663 to 1741. The majority of tables date from 1663-1698. Most are in French but many also in Latin. The plates show different versions of the geographical tables. Please inquire for more details. The majority of tables are 20 inches, some tables are 16 inches and are pasted on blank pages. The leather binding is worn at the top and bottom of spine and on corners and edges..

London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Book. Good. Full-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first two volumes of the four volume set. Volume I - Proceedings of the First Expedition. 1826-1830 under command of Captain P. Parker King. xxviii, 2 l., 597pp; Vol. II. - Proceedings of the Second Expedition, 1831-1836 under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy. xiv, 1 l., 694p, addenda, 41 plates including 2 frontispieces, lacking the four loose folding maps (2 maps in each volume) and the "Chart of a part of South America" in volume I. Volume II is lacking the title page but has the half-title page. Browning mostly front portions of both books and plates, some old marginal damp stains, both books in full tree calf bindings, recased with new marbled endpapers, using original spine strips, lower half of Vol. II spine strip sympathetically replaced. Gilt monogram of General Assembly library on both volumes. Please enquire if you are interested in purchasing volumes separately..

Amsterdam: Willem Jansz, 1618. Book. Fair. Vellum. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. [6], 92 pages, 1 plate (of 9). Lacks title page but the dedication bears the name of Willem Jansz [Blaeu] at the end, with the date of 25. Septemb. 1618. There is a facsimile of the original title page. Contemporary vellum binding, 19cm x 14.5cm, most of the spine is missing. The only plate which is present is the plate of Porto Desire showing the Dutch ships at anchor and the Jacht Hoorn on fire. The plate also shows seamen uncovering a grave where skeletons of men 10-11 feet long were found. Old name and date on front endpaper: "Adrian Boot Ingeniero de su Magsd 1623 = Mexico". Adrian Boot was a Dutch hydrographer who was appointed by King Philip III to investigate the drainage project of Mexico City and take charge of operations. Schouten's book was published four years before the account by Jakob Le Maire..

London: Whiting, 1814. Book. Good-. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong. [6], 21 pages, 7 coloured plates (of 13). Published for the information of the officers of the Rocket Corps, and others whom it may concern. This copy lacks the front cover and spine and 6 of the 13 plates. Prelimary pages are loose, old inscription dated 1837 on front endpaper. The 7 beautifully hand coloured plates whiah are present show: The equipment of a Rocket Ammunition Horse; Rocket infantry in line of march, and in action; the mode of using rockets in bombardment; the mode of using rockets in bombardment, from earth works, without apparatus; a rocket ambuscade; the use of rockets in the attack and defense of fortified places; of the use of rockets by infantry against cavalry, and in covering storming of a fortress. A very rare military history book..

London: G. and W. Nicol, 1814. Book. Good. Half-Leather. First Ediition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ix, [11], cciv, 269 pages [4 plates]; 613 pages [5 plates]. This set includes the 10 botanical plates by Ferdinand Bauer which are in a custom made Solander box. Original binding, front hinge of volume I is split but front cover is firmly attached. Size of text volumes: 30 cm x 23.5 cm, Solander box: 62cm x 45cm. .

Invercargill: Bain & Co, 1877. Book. Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. 98, [4], [242] pages. Old bookplate on front endpaper, pencil notes on front endpaper. Originally published in wrappers, this copy is in a later hardcover binding There is no title page at the start. Starts with the introduction. There is a title page after p. 98. Apparently the southernmost printing of any part of the bible. Johann August Richter (1814-93), born at Luppa, Germany, arrived in Sydney in 1844. On 29 July 1843 Richter obtained permission from the Saxon authorities to travel to Australia as a 'Hilfsmissionar' or auxiliary missionary. He and his family arrived in Sydney with a Gossner Mission Society party to Christianise and civilise Aborigines. The Gossner Mission Society had been established in Berlin in 1836 by Pastor Gossner. Richter's group, which included Wilhelm Gehricke, Carl Gerler and Johann Hermann, remained in Sydney for several months while they debated whether to move to the Gossner German… Read More

London: Luke Hansard, 1803. Book. Good. Half-Leather. First Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Printed by Luke Hansard 1803-1817, and sold by G. and W. Nicol; G. and J. Robinson; J. Robson; T. Payne; and Cadell and Davies [vol. I; booksellers for volumes II, II, IV and V vary]. 285mm x 235mm. Rebacked in half leather bindings with marbled boards. Ex-library Christchurch Boys High School with bookplates and stamps. Vol I and III with wormholes which have been professionally repaired with Japanese tissue paper. James Burney (1750 - 1821) was an English rear-admiral, who accompanied Captain Cook on his last two voyages. The most important general history of early South Sea discoveries containing practically everything of importance on the subject. (Hill).

Rotterdam: Andries van Hoogenhuysen, 1654. Book. Good. Vellum. Third edition, enlarged and revised. [24], 389, [19] pages, illustrated title page, 7 (of 8) illustartions. Lacking pages 337-360 including one illustration. This section of 24 pages appears to have never been bound into this copy. This book went through 4 editions between 1650 and 1655. In 1680 it was enlarged and published under the title "Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien". All these editions are rare. The second part of Wonderen van't Oosten is based on "Oost-Indische Voyagien" published by Joost Hartgersz in 1648. There are summaries of Dutch voyages to the East Indies from 1595 to 1629. The last chapter gives an abbreviated version of 10 pages of the voyage and subsequent shipwreck of the Batavia in 1629 on the Houtman Abrolhos off the Western Australian coast. There is one engraving which summarizes several of the engravings of the wreck of the Batavia which had been published previously under the title Ongeluckige… Read More

New York: Fowler & Wells, 1881. Book. Good. Purple Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 878, 952 pages, illustrated with steel engravings of suffragists. Ex-library, original bindings. The title page states "In Two Volumes". Volume I covers the period 1848 - 1861, volume II 1861 - 1876. By 1922 the set had grown to six volumes. .

Edinburgh: Fraser & Co., 1841. Book. Good. Brown Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. iii, 149 pp. Frontispiece portrait, two folding maps, the facsimile letter is missing, the map of Davis Strait, Cumberland Isle is a facsimile (not recent), the map of Hogarth's Sound is original. Original cloth lettered in gilt on cover, decorated in blind. First edition of this curious work. Eenoolooapik, an Inuk traveler and guide was born at Qimisuk, Cumberland Sound, c.1820; he died at Cumberland Sound 1847. He traveled to Britain in 1839 with whaling captain William Penny, who had hoped to establish a wintering base for whalers in Cumberland Sound. Penny's plan was rejected, but Eenoolooapik's friendliness and sense of humour endeared him to the British, who followed newspaper reports of his activities. In 1840, after helping Penny enter Cumberland Sound, he returned to his birthplace, where he married and lived as a hunter and trader. Not long after his death,… Read More

London: Francis Edwards, 1905. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Transcript of a manuscript, 164 pages, with 32 hand drawn illustrations (some coloured), in facsimile of the original watercolour and pen and ink sketches (1834), finely bound half morocco, ex- New Zealand General Assembly Library with their gilt stamps on the front cover and spine. Mr Markham spent nine months in New Zealand in 1834. This copy is one of six commissioned by London antiquarian bookseller Francis Edwards in 1905. The advertisement for this book from Francis Edwards' catalogue is pasted on the front endpaper. Four copies are known. Three are held by libraries in New Zealand and Australia: the Hocken Library, the Mitchell Library and the National Library of Australia. Our copy is the only one known outside a library..

Honolulu: Paiia mamuli o ke kauoha a ke aupuni / Printed by order of the government, 1866. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 26; 27 pages. Printed in English and Hawaiian. Ex-General Assembly Library New Zealand, old library binding with marbled boards. A very rare early Hawaiiana when the Kingdom of Hawaii was an independent country. .