New Zealand Home Guard Companion 1941

By: N/A

Price: NZ$70.00

Publisher: Hastings, Headquarters No.7 Area, Home Guard, Napier: 1941

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 5464

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Slight foxing to endpapers. Staples rusted. 3/8" fraying to top corner of rear board. ; 227, [2], pages. Diagrams including one folding. Handwritten letter dated 13.05.41 loosely included: "Dear Fred, Complimentary copy from Home Guard. The prurchase of a supply of these was made possible by a generous anonymous donation, GMS."; 8vo View more info

The Famous Parks And Gardens Of The World: Described And Illustrated

By: N/A

Price: NZ$133.00

Publisher: London, T. Nelson and Sons: 1880

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 5514

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

1 1/4" open tear to cloth at bottom of front spine joint. 3/8" missing at tail of spine. 1 1/4" tear to cloth at head of spine. Some loss of cloth and splitting to cloth at head of spine. 1/4" chip to cloth of spine. Edges and corners of boards rubbed and worn. 1/2" chips to corners of boards. 3/4" chip to top edge of front board. Front hinge split. Some spotting to page edges and preliminary leaves. Page 59 spotted with shreds of foil wrappers.; ... View more info

[Masonic Illustrations: The Entered Apprentice; The Fellow Craft; The Master Mason]

By: N/A

Price: NZ$63.00

Seller ID: 5731

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Masonic rubber stamp on title page. Bookstore's rubber stamp on title page. Creasing to wrappers and top corners of leaves throughout.; No date [c. 1950's]. Three illustrations in a folding blue cloth folder. Unfolded dimensions: 14" by 6 1/2". Folded dimensions: 6 1/2" by 4 3/4".; 16mo 6" - 7" tall View more info

Zerubbabel and His Followers: A Valuable Aid to the Memory

By: N/A

Price: NZ$112.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Charles T. Powner Co.: (1945)

Seller ID: 5732

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Masonic rubber stamp on front endpaper. ; "Completely revised 1945" (the first edition was in 1916). 107 pages. "49" printed at top of title page.A label for "The Charles T. Powner Co." has been pasted over the original publisher's name on the title page, which was the "Allen Publishing Company" (New York). The Powner label has been partly removed and lacks the letters after "Pown" in "Powner Co." Page dimensions: 130 x 86m... View more info

Two Early Lodge Photos: Court Pride of the Valley. Juvenile Foresters; Court Pride of the Leith. A. O. F [Ancient Order of Foresters]

By: N/A

Price: NZ$126.00

Publisher: Dunedin, Frost:

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 5740

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

No date [c. late 19th Century]. Photograph dimensions: Court Pride of the Leith - 210mm x 155mm; Court Pride of the Valley - 210mm x 152mm.; 8vo View more info

The Island Mission: Being a History of the Melanesian Mission from its Commencement. Reprinted from "Mission Life."

By: N/A

Price: NZ$700.00

Publisher: London, William Macintosh: 1869

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 5762

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Ex-library. Frontispiece and advertisements missing. Half-calf library binding very worn with leather deteriorating. 3/4" missing to leather at head of spine. Loss of leather at tail of spine and at corners of boards. Both joints split along entire length. Hinges broken. Gilt stamp "Public Library Otago New Zealand" on front board. "Library Rules" label on front pastedown. No library markings in text block. Foxing and moderate staining to page edges, ... View more info

Atlas de la Flore Alpine: Publié par le Club alpin allemand et autrichien. [5 plate volumes + 1 text volume]

By: N/A

Price: NZ$700.00

Publisher: Geneve & Bale, Librairie Georg & Co: 1899

Seller ID: 5765

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Cloth split along entire length of rear joint on Volume V. Otherwise good.; 5 volumes each with 100 colour plates (chromolithographs)+ 1 text volume. Pagination of text volume: vii, (5), 193 pages + (3) pages advertisements. Green cloth boards. Silver titles and black illustration on front board of each volume.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall View more info

Sugar Industry. Ministerial Statement Setting Out The Policy Of The Government With Regard To The Australian Sugar Industry.

By: N/A

Price: NZ$84.00

Publisher: Canberra, Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia By H. J. Green.: 1929

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 5808

Condition: Poor with no dust jacket

Ex-Library. Front board detached. Preliminary leaves browned. ; vi, 186 pages. Grey card boards. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall View more info

The Otago Rugby Football Union Annual. 1913.

By: N/A

Price: NZ$350.00

Publisher: Dunedin, Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co.: 1913

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 5831

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Old adhesive tape stains to paper spine. Numerous tears and chips to front wrapper. Rear wrapper detached and reattached with archival paper tape. Heavy rubbing to rear wrapper. Internally good.; 216 pages. Printed paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 121 x 90mm.; 32mo 4" - 5" tall View more info

Handbook of Domestic Cookery

By: N/A

Price: NZ$70.00

Publisher: William Collins:

Seller ID: 5928

Condition: Poor with no dust jacket

Title page missing. One colour plate missing? Heavy rubbing, staining and fading to boards. 1/2" chips to cloth at corners of boards. 1/4" chips to cloth at ends of spine. Gutters broken at endpapers. Binding shaky. A rough, used copy.; No date (title page missing), [c. 1880's]. Red cloth boards with decoration in black and gilt. Page dimensions: 186 x 122mm. 7 [of 8?] colour lithographed plates. The plates are numbered from I to VII, but are bound in a different... View more info

Akaroa and Banks Peninsula 1840-1940 Story of French Colonising Venture and Early Whaling Activities; The First Settlement of Canterbury

By: N/A

Price: NZ$420.00

Publisher: Akaroa, Akaroa Mail Co.: (1940)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6274

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Spine faded. Tiny 1/8" surface chip to leather at head of spine. Light rubbing to boards.; [iv], 396 pages + frontis + plates. Presentation binding of full blue calf. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Page dimensions: 215 x 136mm. Presentation inscription to W. S. Wanchop, signed by the Chairman and the Secretary of the Akaroa Centennial Committee, dated 1940. Contents: Maori History; Captain George Hempleman; French Colonisation at Akaroa; Hoisting Union Jack at Aka... View more info

A General Collection of Voyages: Undertaken either for Discovery, Conquest, Settlement, or The Opening of Trade, from the Commencement of the Portugese Discoveries, to the Present Time. Vol. I.

By: N/A

Price: NZ$1,225.00

Publisher: London, W. Richardson; J. Bew; T. Hookham; J. and T. Egerton; C. Stalker: [1789]

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6343

Condition: Poor with no dust jacket

Uncommon. v, [1], (7)-518 pages + iv pages of contents at rear + 4 of 5 maps (all folding, the fifth map, of the West Indies, was possibly never issued) + two views (of Madeira and of Teneriffe). Lacking the Map of the West Indies and the two portrait plates of Prince Henry and Albuqueque. Page dimensions: 260 x 205mm. Contemporary owner's signature of "John Polloc[k?]"on front pastedown. Preliminary leaves very worn and chipped at margins. All leaves up to page ... View more info

The Freemasons Magazine and Masonic Mirror. New Series. Volumes VIII-XV, XVIII-XXI. January 1863 - December 1866, January 1868 - December 1869.

By: N/A

Price: NZ$2,520.00

Publisher: London, Published for the Proprietor, Bro. Wm. Smith: 1863-1869

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6352

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Four of the six bound volumes have a moderate degree of old mould stains at the endpapers and to the margins of the first few and last few leaves. The text is still completely readable, and it is still overall a good set for all except those with a particular antipathy to any sign of mould. Gutters broken at rear hinges on two volumes. The leather is still strong and supple. A few 3/8" superficial chips and scrapes to leather spines. Moderate rubbing and some small l... View more info

The Freemasons Magazine and Masonic Mirror. New Series. Volumes I-III. June 1859 to December 1860.

By: N/A

Price: NZ$770.00

Publisher: London, Published By Bro. Henry George Warren: 1859

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6353

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Volumes I and II are in good condition. Volume III is in fair condition only, with quite heavy old black mould stains to the rear endpaper and the margins of the lower corners of the final 27 leaves. The text is still complete and readable. Volume III also has dampstains and brown tide-marks to the lower quarter of the last 20 leaves, and damp stains and chipping to the marbled paper on the rear board. Volume III has the wrong title page, it has another copy of the title... View more info

Freemasonry in Europe during the past century. With a list of Continental Lodges. Extracted (by permission) from The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.

By: N/A

Price: NZ$210.00

Publisher: London, Richard Spencer: 1846

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6358

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Corners of several leaves creased and a moderately dog-eared. Paper spine very worn with joints torn along most of their length. 1" missing at head of paper spine. Owner's signature of R B Willis [Robert Bruce] on title page.; An offprint from The Freemasons' Quarterly Review. Uncommon in this form. 34, [2 (advertisements)] pages. Blue printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 213 x 135mm. "The alterations herein made [to this reprint] are more of the nature of verbal c... View more info

The Masonic Mirror; A Journal of Freemasonry, Devoted to the Proceedings at Masonic Lodges, the Welfare of the Order, the Interests of its Charities, Literature and News. Vol. I.

By: N/A

Price: NZ$385.00

Publisher: London, Br. Henry George Warren: 1855

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6364

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Some chipping to marbled paper along tail edges of boards. Some light foxing.; An uncommon periodical. Monthly issues from November 1854 to November 1855. vii, [1], 740 pages. Printed by Ford & Tilt. Half-calf and marbled boards. Gilt rule on spine. Page dimensions: 204 x 133mm. "We have observed that it has been long a subject of regret amongst the brethren of the square and compass, that they have no literary organ conducted on such a principle as to admit of its d... View more info

Oliver and Boyd's Handy Atlas of the World

By: N/A

Price: NZ$126.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd: 1881

Seller ID: 6374

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Spine very worn. 1" chip to cloth in middle of spine. Joints split along entire length. Front free endpaper and half-title page missing. Maps in good condition, with occasional small foxing marks. Several maps have a 1" to 1 3/8" tear at the tail end of the centre fold.; [iv] pages + 32 double page maps. Red cloth boards with gilt title on front board. The maps are all mounted at the centre fold on guards. The printed area of the maps is 193 x 158mm.; 12mo 7... View more info

The Writer's Clerk; or, the Humours of the Scottish Metropolis.

By: N/A

Price: NZ$420.00

Publisher: London, Printed for G. B. Whittaker: 1825

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6380

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

1" chip to marbled paper on front board. Marbled paper worn away from edges of boards. Leather joints rubbed but strong. 1" tear to lower margin of title leaf in Volume I. Split to gutter following title leaf of Volume I. One leaf (pp.3-4 in Volume I), has had a 4" corner torn away and reattached with archival mending tissue, with no loss of text. The tear also has stains from an earlier old sellotape repair. The title page to Volume III has a 3/8" tear a... View more info