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Records of the Canterbury Museum [Volumes One and Two, complete]

By: various contributors including Edgar R. Waite (curator); Henry Suter; Charles Chilton; R. Speight (curator)

Price: NZ$189.00

Publisher: Christchurch, Published by Order of the Board of Governors / Christchurch Press Co.: 1907-1925

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21596

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued

Ex-library, DSIR (Scientific and Industrial Research Dept.). Ex libris bookplate of S J S Barker. Tidy manuscript corrections to several pages in the "Basic List of the Fishes of New Zealand" in Volume One. ; Complete Volume One and Volume Two bound together in one volume. Volume One has years in the title imprint 1907-1912; Volume Two 1913-1925. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 2, Nos. 1-5. Volume One: [iv], 333, [1] + 69 plates (some folding); Volume Two: viii, 329, [1] pages + 47 plates. Bound in red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Original wrappers not present. Page dimensions: 211 x 133...
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Scientific Results of the New Zealand Government Trawling Expedition, 1907.

By: Waite, Edgar R.

Price: NZ$54.00

Publisher: Wellington, John Mackay, Government Printer: 1909

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6348

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Wrappers rubbed and creased. 1" tear at tail of paper spine. Staples rusted. Corners of some leaves dog-eared. A 3" tear and a couple of misfolds to the folding map. The illustrations are mostly of fish and the netting equipment. One unusual illustration shows a man sitting in the water on top of the trawling net as it is being brought in, being supported by the mass of snapper in the haul - "So great is the buoyancy of a large haul of schnapper when drawn from deep water that the mass is capable of supporting for some time the weight of a man."; 116 pages + 23 plates + colour folding map. Pri...
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Guide to the Collections in the Canterbury Museum Christchurch, New Zealand

By: [Waite, Edgar R.]

Price: NZ$108.00

Publisher: Christchurch, T. E. Fraser: 1906

Seller ID: 15618

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Title leaf detached with losses. Front wrapper missing. Paper spine chipped. Rubbing and dog-earing to corners of leaves.; Third edition. [iv], 220 pages + 7 plates + 9 full page plans. Front wrapper missing and title leaf heavily torn and chipped. Page dimensions: 215 x 137mm. The plans show the layout of different rooms in the museum. The plates are b&w photographic illustrations, and include the Maori Room, the Ethnological Room, the Sculpture Room, and the New Zealand Room (showing moa skeletons). [Seller ref: Knightcol] ; 8vo
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Author:[Waite, Edgar R.]

Records of the Canterbury Museum [Volumes One and Two, complete]

Scientific Results of the New Zealand Government Trawling Expedition, 1907.

Guide to the Collections in the Canterbury Museum Christchurch, New Zealand