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	1	Murray, John; edited by Charles Manby and James Forrest On the North Sea; with remarks on some of its Friths and Estuaries [+ 4 others] London Printed by William Clowes and Sons 1862 First Edition Hardcover Good with no dust jacket Library rubber stamps of the "Public Works Dept. Library" and the "New Zealand Oceanographic Insitute D.S.I.R.". Card pocket (empty) on rear endpaper.; 63, [1] pages + 2 large colour folding charts of the North Sea + 1 folding b&w chart, transverse section of the North Sea. The first chart has several 2" tears along the folds and a couple of 3/8" chips. An offprint from the Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. XX. Session 1860-61. Bound with four other similar offprints from the same institution, mostly on railways, including Indian railways. These are seperately printed offprints, not disbound extracts. They are bound together in one volume, with the spine titled "Miscellaneous Pamphlets". Half-leather binding. Page dimensions: 213 x 128mm. The other works bound in this volume are as follows: (2) "A Mode of Computation, whereby Flood Water may be Excluded from a set of Gaugings" by James Leslie; edited by Charles Manby. (Excerpt Minutes from Vol. X, Session 1850-51). 8 pages. (3) "Description of the Landore Viaduct on the Line of the South Wales Railway" by Lavington Evans Fletcher, edited by Charles Manby. (Excerpt Minutes from Vol. XIV, Session 1854-55). 17 pages + 1 folding engraved plate. (4) "On Indian Railways: With a Description of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway" by James John Berkley, edited by Charles Manby & James Forest. (Excerpt Minutes from Vol. XIX, Session 1859-60). 40 pages + 1 folding map (with 5" tear to blank stub). (5) "On the Workings of Steep Gradients and Sharp Curves on Railways" by Captain Henry Whatley Tyler, edited by James Forrest. (Excerpt Minutes from Vol. XXVI, Session 1866-67). 90 pages. ; Ex-Library; 8vo Price: 168.00 NZD
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	2	Baxter, James K.; Selected and Introduced by John Weir The Essential Baxter Auckland Oxford University Press (1993) 0195582853 / 9780195582857 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket No signatures. Some specks of staining to page edges.; A selection of poems by New Zealand poet James K. Baxter, made by the editor of Baxer's Collected Poems. x, 148 pages. Some b&w illustrations. Pictorial papered boards (matching the dust wrapper). Page dimensions: 170 x 118mm. Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Beginnings (1926-1942); Learning How to Be (1943-1957); Partial Reconciliations (1958-1962); A Dialogue with Pig Island (1963-1968); Jerusalem Days (1969-1972); Chronology; List of Illustrations; Select Glossary. ; 16mo Price: 32.40 NZD
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	3	Wilkinson, James John Garth The Human Body and its Connexion with Man, Illustrated by the Principal Organs London Chapman and Hall 1860 Second Edition Hardcover Fair with no dust jacket Cloth very worn. 1/2" chip to cloth in centre of spine title. Several other 3/8" chips to spine cloth. 1/4" missing to cloth at tail of spine. 1/2" chips to cloth at corners of boards. Gutters broken at hinges. Moderate foxing to leaves throughout. Moderate pencil marginalia throughout. ; xxvi, 385 pages. Original cloth boards with blind-stamped borders. Gilt titles on spine. Contents: Dedication; Preface; The Human Brain; The Human Lungs; Assimilation and its Organ; The Human Heart; The Human Skin; The Human Form; Health; Appendix. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall Price: 84.00 NZD
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