London: Savory & Moore Chemist to the Queen, 143 New Bond Street, after 1862. Savory & Moore was... Read More about Fitted brown calf case for medecines, with 12 beakers (missing 4), scale, folding inner lid with...
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Sydney: Collins, [1977]. One of 12 copies especially bound, of which this is copy 10, signed by Cooper and Forshaw on the special inserted title, with the manuscript limitation leaf. ONE OF 12 COPIES. Read More about The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds
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Wellington, N.Z: GPO, 1904. First edition. Read More about Trout-Fishing and Sport in Maoriland
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Paris: Ambroise DuPont & Cie, 1828. First edition. Hutt was a MP and involved in colonial affairs in NZ and Australia. Read More about Cromwell. Drame
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[Newark, Vermont: The Janus Press, 2016]. Number 21 of 25 copies, Signed by Claire Van Vliet. Read More about The Silences Between (Moeraki Conversations
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New Haven: S. Babcock, [1845]. First American edition, second issue (with Preface dated 1845). Shipwrecked in the Torres Strait. Early American chapbook printing of this first-hand account of the wreck of the Charles Eaton off the north coast of Australia and the subsequent capture and massacre of most of the..... Read More about The Shipwrecked Orphans: A True Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of John Ireland and...
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London: Richard Bentley, 1847. First Edition. Read More about The Bushman; or, Life in a New Country
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. no. 55 of 1500, signed by the Artist & Designer Douglas A. Dunstan. Read More about A Voyage to the South Seas. Introduction by Alan Viliers
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Prag: 1816/1815. A Reprint of a work published at Weimar, 1814. Read More about Der fünfte Welttheil oder Australien : ein geographisches Hand- und Lesebuch zur Belehrung und...
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Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1929]. First American Edition. The standard book for the big game hunter, based on the author's observations and experiences. Read More about The Hunting & Spoor of Central African Game
Price: $600
(Wellington), New Zealand: Avon Fine Arts, 1969. First edition. Number 22 of an edition limited to 2000 copies to commemorate the bicentenary of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific. Read More about Captain Cook's Artists in the Pacific 1769-1779
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np: Privately printed for the author, 1966. First edition. AN EARLY REPORT ON KIWI HERMIT TOM NEALE. Inscribed to Percy Chubb by the author, Parkinson has also signed his name to the title-page. The TLS dated, March 29, 1970 concerns sailing matters relating to his crossing of the Atlantic. Parkinson spent..... Read More about Yarns for Davy Jones
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Pristine condition with a distinguished provenance. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Patricia C. Thomson from her loving sister Maggie. October 12th 1878." This substantial herbarium is drawn primarily from New Zealand and Hawaii, though also includes samples from Cape Town and England. The New Zealand specimens were gathered mainly..... Read More about Ferns and Flowers
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London: Bentley, 1893. Australian Edition. "Pakeha" is the Maori term for "foreigner" Read More about Old New Zealand: Tale of the Good Old Times by a Pekeha Maori
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[New Zealand: ca. 1890]. The 2nd King of the Maoris: a Rare Carte-de-Visite. A rare care-de-visite portrait of Tawhiao (c. 1822-1894), the 2nd Maori King, who “…left a legacy of religious principles from which his people would draw a future dream for Tainui: the rebirth of a self-sufficient economic base..... Read More about Carte de visite portrait of Tawhiao, 2nd Maori King, captioned “Tawahio [sic] the Maori King”
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London: David Nutt, 1897 & 1898. Second edition of the first title and first edition of the second title. THE AUSTRALIAN JUNGLE BOOKS, INSCRIBED. The first volume is inscribed, "To Mrs Campbell Praed In recognition of her - - appreciation of the race to whom these legends belong K. Langloh..... Read More about Australian Legendary Tales. Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to Piccaninnies. WITH: More...
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Cambridge: University Press, 1933. First Edition. The Andaman Islands are a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. Signed by Ashley Montagu with a rhyme about the author laid in, also signed by Ashley Montagu. Read More about The Andaman Islanders
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Edinburgh: Jan 4, 1878. Robert Richardson was an Australian poet. Mark Twain adapted from his poem called Annette: "Warm summer sun shine kindly here, Warm southern wind blow softly here, Green sod above, lie light, lie light -- Good night, dear heart, Good night, good night." as the headstone for..... Read More about ALS. To Daniel S. Ford. "Dear Sir, I send you by this post... "
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1896. First edition. Specialized record of tattoo patterns and a collection of dried heads. A classic ethnography on the Maoris and the long tradition of tattooing. Profusely illustrated, this valuable history showcases the creativity and craft of the native artists. In 1863, Major-General Robley (1840-1930) with the..... Read More about Moko; or Maori Tattooing
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London & New York: Edwin Arnold, 1896. First edition in English. Published in five volumes as Les Adventures de ma Vie, Paris, 1896-1897 first . Henri Rochefort, Born in 1831 into the French nobility (his full name was the Marquis Victor-Henry de Rochefort-Lucay) was a journalist for le Figaro and..... Read More about The Adventures of My Life. Arranged for English Readers by the Author and Ernest W. Smith
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[New York: Humanities Press, 1969]. Facsimile of the Second Revised and Enlarged Edition, originally published in an edition of 225 in 1899. Ashley Montagu's copy with 2 reviews laid in. Read More about The Aborigines of Tasmania. Assisted by Marion E Butler, with a chapter on the Osteology by J G...
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Wellington: George Didsbury, Government Printer, 1892. First edition. Read More about Trout in New Zealand, Where to Go and How to Catch Them
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Imprinted at Amsterdam [but actually Sydney, Australia, 1892]. First edition. Rare. Response to R. L. Stevenson's pamphlet "An Object of Pity; or, the Man Haggard, A Romance. By Many Competant Hands" In that "community romance" Bazett (H. Rider's brother) was the hero. Here we have his rebuttal. RLS took both..... Read More about Objects of Pity; or, Self and Company. By a Gentleman of Quality
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Sydney: [Privately printed], 1890. First edition, issued (according to Edmund Gosse) in an edition of 25 copies. The Rare Sydney Printing. Father Damien, Damien de Veuster (1840-1889) was a Belgian missionary from Belgium who worked at the leper settlement at Molokai from 1873; he eventually contracted leprosy and died of..... Read More about Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
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Shrewsbury: 25-7-34. Reading in part: "I have never published anything of a critical nature concerning the Landing of the Australian & New Zealand forces in 1915-" of which he was in command at Gallipoli. Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed
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Brisbane, (Australia): Printed by H.J. Diddams & Co., George Street, 1913. First edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on front pastedown, "With Compliments from Tho Welsby Author, Oct 6, 1913" Read More about The Discoverers of the Brisbane River
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