Books on the history of New Zealand people and places. Political and social history. Regional and local history, economic history.
All these fortunabooks.com prices are in New Zealand dollars, and there is a minimum order required of NZD$20 excluding postage.VG VG DW affixed to boards along the lower folding joint at fore edge.
$30 C/B [NZ 143]
np nd ix 227pp illustrated.
Letters from Settlers & Labouring Emigrants, in the New Zealand Company's settlements of Wellington, Nelson & New Plymouth. From February 1842 to January 1843.
Taranaki, history, colonial
VG hardback with no jacket, book has tape rust to endpapers, inscription to top of endpaper, boards lightly sunned to edges.
$30 B/A
Smith Elder & Co (1843) reprinted by H D Mullon 1968, small 12mo hard cover, 89pp + modern preface etc, engraved frontis.
[#2354 ]
This is the story of Blackie (Andrew Black), a legendary bushman who worked and fought and drank and gambled his way from Tasmania to Victoria to Otago to the King Country to Northland, and to the Solomon Islands where his bones now lie buried. It is also the story of his only love, Ettie, whose heart he nearly broke with his mania for grog and gambling. She married someone else, but....Ted Ashby first met them in the timber-mill town of Powelltown, Victoria, where he went to work in the 1920s. He worked with Blackie there and later in the Solomons before World War II, and then met up with him in the Solomons again after the war ended.
ISBN0589011294
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with mild sun fading.Recounts timber milling and bush clearing in Australia, new Zealand and the tropics.
$15 C/C
Reed 1978 first edition hardcover, 129pp + plates.
[#3309]
VG softback
$35 B/C
Avondale History Group 1994, 128 pages + appendices. ISBN0473022737 [#2606 new zealand history auckland ]
VG VG
$20 C/C [Item# 194 NZ]
Beckett 1984 first edition hardcover, large 8vo, 128pp. A tour through New Zealand pubs giving their history and characters with many good colour photos. ISBN 0908676204
A rare and informative account of the defunct Freemasonic Lodges that had flourished during the first 100 years of New Zealand settlement.
Includes information on membership which will be of use to genealogists.
Freemasonry, masonic, friendly society, history, clubs, fraternal organisations
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Contemporary ink name and address to free end paper.
$175 C/B
Blundell Bros. 1935 first edition, 197pp.
[#4504 ]
Preceeded By a Maori Histroy of the Auckland Isthmus By George Graham.
G hardback with no jacket.
Cloth rubbed and faded, ex Ministry of Works library with library marks etc., Auckland City Coat of Arms plate tipped to half title (as published), large folding map at rear with minor tear.
$25 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1922 First Edition, 255pp + many plates.
[#4277 ]
A biography of Harry Albert Atkinson (1831 - 1892) early colonist and settler, includes New Zealand Wars / Maori Wars in Taranaki.
ISBN0196479347
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket
$25 C/B
Auckland University Press 1975, x 196pp + plates and maps. [#2893 new zealand, history, biography, Taranaki ]
A lifetime of medical service in pre 1930 general practise on the West Coast, Otira, Motueka, Ashburton and the Hawkes Bay during the earthquake.
Arthur's Pass, Otira Gorge, Denniston, Ongarue rail accident, Hastings, Napier, biography
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with inscription to fep.
$20 C/C
Collins 1972 first edition, 172pp + plates.
[NZ27 ]
VG hardback with no dustjacket.
$15 C/C
Collins 1972 first edition, 172pp + plates.
[#3993 ]
VG hardback in VG dustjacket.
$20 C/C
Collins 1973, 172pp + plates.
[#4335 ]
Being sketches of Up-Country life in New Zealand.
Includes early colonial accounts of Maori.
Illustrated by Dagmar Huie.
G+ cloth hardback.
Uniformaly dust soiled cloth, frontis detached and shows tape rust along spine edge of the frontis and the title, inscription dated 1918 to fep, rear joint split to top half
$30 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs (1912) first edition of 1,000 copies (B401) viii 208pp.
[#4644 ]
One of the Whitcombe and Tombs tourist 'Souvenir Booklets', printed on sized photo paper throughout, and with many photographs.
travel, tourism, vintage, Mount Taranaki, Mount Egmont,
G+ in stiff paper covers with yapped edges. The first and last pages have some minor surface damage where they had adhered to the inside covers, but are now free.
$30 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs G51156 (1929?) 75pp.
[#3896 ]
The first comprehensive history of New Zealand's system of lighthouses that were essential for the great maritime future the government envisaged. Details the siting, design, construction, operation and eventual demanning of these nineteenth- and early twentieth-century installations, and reveals much of the lives of the lighthouse keepers, practical, independent men who took their families to live in remote parts of New Zealand, and raises critical questions about the future of the historic structures.
ISBN1877257435
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket.
$95 B/D
Canterbury University Press 2006, 352pp.
[#3326 ]
From the Polynesian settlement and development of the Maori tribes in the eleventh century.
First encounters between Maori and Europeans from 1642 and the settlement of the Pakeha, the neo-Europeans of New Zealand, between the 1830s and the 1880s.
Belich describes the forging of a neo-Polynesia and a neo-Britain and the traumatic interaction between them. He examines the myths and realities that drove the colonialization process and suggests a new "living" version of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's Magna Carta.
The construction of peoples, Maori and Pakeha, is a recurring theme: the response of each to the great shift from extractive to sustainable economics; their relationship with their ancestors and origins, with each other, and with myth.
ISBN9780713991710
new zealand, history, social, political
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket which has a sun-faded spine.
$25 C/C
Allen Lane/ Penguin Press 1996, 497pp.
[#3943 ]
An account of John Carne Bidwell's adventures in 1839, when travelling with Maori, he explored the central North Island, and at a time when few Pakeha ventured outside settlements, he reached Lake Taupo, and ascended Tongariro and Ngauruhoe.
This is the second edition, (after the 1841 original) in the second impression after the limited first impression.
VG quarter cloth hardback in VG- dust jacket with minor wear or soiling.
$45 C/C
The Pegasus Press 1952 second impression, 124 pp.
[#3076 ]
A history of Field Surveying in New Zealand.
With early photographs from the author's collection.
geography, surveying, map making, colonial development, maori land, land court
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket with some minor edge chipping or wear.
$30 B/C
NZ Institute of Surveyors 1975 first edition, x, 86pp.
[#4884 ]
History of Liquor Licensing in New Zealand.
G+ sewn sheets in pictorial paper covered card boards, rubbed spine, small watermark at head of spine on a few pages, final (errata) page nibbled to fore edge without loss of text
$10 A/B
Price Milburn 1959 first edition, 192pp + plates
[#966 ]
G+ sewn sheets in pictorial paper covered card boards, rubbed and faded spine.
$15 A/B
Price Milburn 1959 first edition, 192pp + plates
[#3127 ]
In which we learn of the amazing fortune and fate of pioneering women who ventured from their kitchens at home to embark upon a new life in the unknown territory of New Zealand.
What happened to European women after they arrived in the raw colony?
From their letters, diaries and cookbooks, the story of Colonial Women emerges.
Recording their struggles to find housing, food and friends, we learn how they kept food fresh without a refrigerator, how illnesses were treated without antibiotics and how they found entertainment without radio, tv or movies.
Pioneering women worked hard, often at backbreaking tasks like washing clothes without running water (let alone hot) or humping heavy iron cooking pots, and yet they recounted their happenings with humour and incredible optimism.
Some of their problems were unique: keeping the yeast alive, churning butter from pigeon fat, storing candles where rats would not eat them.
Other problems are the same as women face today: bearing loneliness and isolation, coping with culinary disasters, having the right clothes for the occasion and finding time to read.
An historical study of the daily life and work of colonial women in New Zealand in the nineteenth century.
Includes recipes and receipts for food, toiletries, medicine etc.
ISBN 045602980X
domestic economy, women's history, colonial household, pioneering, homesteading, self sufficiency, off-grid, prepping
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket with edge wear and tape repair to reverse of spine.
Title page has top corner clipped off and the date 1982 in ink at bottom corner.
$20 C/C
Methuen 1982 first edition, 179pp.
[#5057 ]
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with some edge chipping.
$20 C/C
Methuen 1982 first edition, 179pp.
[#5164 ]
Early days and the prohibition threat, The great war, Post war problems,The depression years, Another World War, Peace and problems, The booming '50's, Staff, training & more legislation, Industry challenges, A new era : pokies in- the levy gone, HANZ looks at a restructure, More licensing reviews, Appendices (Office bearers ; Life members ; Conference venues & dates ; Branch president and secretaries in 2002 ; Milestones).
ISBN0473096281
hotels, hoteliers, bars, prohibition, hospitality association new zealand, hanz, history
VG+ softback with author's presentation inscription to title page.
$25 C/B
Wellington Museums Trust 2003, 176pp.
[#3898 ]
11 essays on various aspects of women's lives in New Zealand, from the past to the present (1980).
Includes essays on politics, Maori women, Women's Christian Temperance Union, sex and marriage, education, Jane Mander's literary heroines.
ISBN 0868610348
sociology, gender studies, feminism, W. C. T. U.
G+ softback with minor usage wear to covers.
$8 C/B
George Allen and Unwin 1980 first edition, 265pp
[#4892 ]
The Government of the City of Auckland 1840-1971.
local body, politics, politicians, councillors
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with small repaired tear at rear.
$15 C/D
Collins 1971, 637pp.
[#3513 ]
A documentary history of Chinese goldminers in New Zealand, describing the discrimination they experienced, and the rationale behind it.
Many excerpts from contemporary sources, including the murderer Lionel Terry.
Chapters on crime, mining, religion, vice (gambling, opium etc.), violence against them.
ISBN0908578024
goldrush, gold mining, chinese, china,
VG+ softback
$30 B/C
Alister Taylor 1977 first edition, 119pp.
[#3892 ]
Romance and Reality of Antipodean Life in the Infancy of the New Colony
Account of the Waitemata Harbour and the area that was to become Auckland
Campbell was an early Scottish visitor who lived with and travelled amongst the Maori.
ISBN0855582274
north island, 19th century, colonial, john logan campbell, waitemata
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, slightly sunned spine.
$20 C/C
Golden Press 1973 first edition thus cloth, (xiii) 239pp.
[#1707/4055 ]
VG hardback with no dust jacket, minor aging.
$15 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1953 cloth, xvii 239pp + plates and folding map.
[#4895 ]
Archaeology in New Zealand special issue December 2004, being 40 short reminiscences of the past 50 years of New Zealand archaeology, by various contributors.
ISSN01137832
VG+ softback
$45 C/B
New Zealand Archaeological Association 2004, 220pp.
[#3059 ]
Visits to old North Island Courthouses.
The author, a retired lawyer, visits nearly 100 courthouses in the North and has photographed and described their histories.
Many are now being used as Community Centres or for other purposes.
ISBN 9780473230821
architecture, regional, judiciary, law and order, historic buildings
VG hardback with no jacket as issued.
$30 B/C
Alibi Press 2013 first edition, 176pp.
[#5496 ]
A history of the Bank of New Zealand, 1861-1961.
economics, banking, money, monetary policy
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/D
Bank of New Zealand 1961 first edition, 408pp.
[#4849 ]
Aspects and Reminiscences.
An informal but detailed historical overview of New Zealand pharmacy from the days of the colonial sailing ships.
The author was in the trade for 64 years and recounts his own experiences as well as the past 100 years of pharmacy in New Zealand, 1881 being the year when official registration of pharmacists was instituted.
ISBN 0908596103
chemists, medicines, apothecary, pharmacutical, pharmacy acts, dispensing,
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$35 B/C
Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand 1981 first edition, 249pp
[#5015 ]
Seventy Years of Rationalism in New Zealand.
God's own country, or, more recently, Godzone, and yet New Zealand is now one of the most secular countries on earth.
This is the story of the longest running organisation devoted to free thinking in New Zealand's history, and of the people who built and nurtured it.
Included are some of the most famous names in New Zealand history: Sir Robert Stout, RAK Mason, Rex Fairburn, Sir Dove-Myer Robinson, John A. Lee and many, many others.
ISBN 0473053926
religion, atheism, philosophy, sociology
VG softback, signed to title page by the author, errata slip at front.
$30 B/C
New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists, 1998, 240pp. [#2788]
VG softback.
PRESENTATION COPY to Professor Bernard Howard, signed on title page by author and with a presentation letter slipped in at front.
$30 B/C
New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists 1998 first edition, 240pp.
[#4570 ]
VG- G dw chipped with loss, lacksfep, inscr half title and paste down
$15 B/B [NZ 32]
Boy Scouts Association cloth 130pp + plates
Life in early, pre-European, New Zealand as evidenced in the archeological record. With information about the Polynesian background, evidence of the material culture from remains, the economy, social life, art and warfare of the peoples living before oral traditional histories. Includes evidences of moa-hunting and cannibalism.
ISBN0582717930
Archaeology, prehistory, moa-hunter, maori
VG hardback with G sun faded dust jacket with some repaired tears to spine and folds. Small name to endpaper.
$65 B/C
Longman Paul Ltd. 1984 first edition, 270 pp.
[#2986 ]
A fascinating picture of the woman who led the suffrage campaign to win the vote for New Zealand women in the 1890s, as well as other social causes.
ISBN9780140176148
biography, politics, suffragette, WCTU
VG softback.
$25 C/C
Penguin 1992, 242pp.
[#3634 ]
Betty recounts her time life in the high country at Lilybank Station at the head of Lake Tekapo in the McKenzie country. With her family she left the high country when her husband became a Member of Parliament.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with a small cup-ring to the front.
$15 C/B
Reed November 1964 first reprint, 146pp + plates.
[#3349 ]
Radio broadcasting in New Zealand; a documentray.
A full history of the people, the stations, and the technology that brought radio programming to the widely spread and often remote and isolated settlements of New Zealand, helping to build the national identity.
Illustrated throughout.
ISBN 0868651001
media, RNZ, commercial radio, social history
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some soiling or sun-fading.
With 45 rpm disc at rear with sound samples related to the text.
$20 B/C
Methuen 1976 first edition, 174pp.
[#5105 ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some soiling or sun-fading.
LACKS the 45 rpm sample disc.
$15 B/C
Methuen 1976 first edition, 174pp.
[#5106 ]
Written by a DSIR toxicologist, this includes a history of non-medical drug use and an overview of the various drugs used in New Zealand.
ISBN 0456009000
drugs, psychedelics, social history
G softback.
Backstrip browned under clear tape, title page taped along spine edge to the front cover, front cover and title detached from book but held to it by tape, otherwise tidy copy,
$45 C/B
Hicks Smith and Sons 1971 First Edition, 106pp.
[#5590 ]
The Diamond Jubilee Book of the Penwomen's Club (NZ) Incorporated 1925 to 1985.
ISBN186936006X
new zealand writers, writing, authors, nz literature, history of NZ writing
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 C/C
Ken Pounder 1985 first edition, 224pp
[#4524 ]
A social history of New Zealand women of the nineteen-thirties.
ISBN 0589013750
gender studies, great depression, suffrage
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with slightly sun faded spine.
$15 B/C
Reed 1981 first editon, 165pp.
[#5027 ]
VG quarter cloth with pictorial spine and boards G+ dust jacket, tidy old name and inscription to endpapers and half title, some water marking to foot of spine on the DW with some chipping loss, minor water mark to tail of book spine, $45 C/B Blackie 1924 , DW has tipped on colour plate of whalers in a long-boat, vii 103pp + plates. [#2353 nz history ]
A history of the moneyed rich in New Zealand from the earliest Colonial days up to the extravagances of the 1980s Stock Market Crash and the consolidation that followed.
ISBN 9780140257403
finance, economics, gentry, wealth, oligarchs
VG softback, inscription to first page.
$15 C/B
Penguin 1996, 266pp + plates.
[#4543 ]
"Politically, racism is a distraction. Scientifically, it is nonsense. There was no racism in New Zealand 200 years ago. But New Zealand now has an Official Race Relations Commissioner to deal with racism. Where did this racism come from, and how did it get established"? This book explains how it came about. Walter Mantell was among the first English colonists to land in New Zealand when it became a British colony in 1840. He was then 19 years of age. By the time of his death in 1895, he had become well known as a Maori claims commissioner, as a scientist and as a politician. Mantell's 'life and times' coincide with the rise of New Zealand racism to this fateful development."
ISBN9780473175771
new zealand history, politics, biography, treaty of waitangi, maori land claims
VG softback
$30 C/C
Panuitia Press 2010 first edition, 447pp. Illustrated.
[#3944 ]
New Zealand and Pacific Auction records from 1949 to April 1952
Limited to 600 copies.
Prices in Pounds etc.
Some illustrations.
G softback, spine and joints rubbed and split, dust soiled wrappers, some pen notation throughout the listings, pen date to cover.
$15 C/B
Privately published 1952, 123pp.
[#4679 ]
Under Sail in the early Forties.
1841-2 diary of Fell of Nelson, who sailed on the Colonist ship Lord Auckland'.
Facsimile of James Townsend and Sons (1926) original.
VG hardback with no jacket.
Publisher has mis-titled the spine with a different book title.
$30 C/B
Capper Press 1973, 112pp.
[#4430 ]
An itinerary for a tour of the motorways of Auckland in June 1966 complete with blueprint charts of some of the features to be viewed and perspective drawings.
Official Report, Ministry of Works, Auckland, Transport, Roading, Construction, Diagrams, Motorways, Khyber Pass Viaduct
VG stapled sheets in card wrappers with cloth spine and paper label.
$30 B/B
Ministry of Works 1966, 7pp single side only + 9 plans + large folding map
[#3930 ]
NF NF DW under plastic sleeve.
$10 B/C [NZ 95]
Mallinson Rendell 1981 first edition hardcover 4to, 104pp illustrated throughout in line and watercolour by author. A nostalgic look at Wellington architecture. ISBN 0908606060
Development of the Maui Offshore Gas Field
G softback with rubbed covers, tape residue, cancellation stamp, label remains inside rear cover $30 B/C Government Printer 1973 first edition softcover, 316pp. Ex-library. [#2338 nz history energy geology ]
A selection of articles from the author's career of local history research, and a study of regional community research.
Part 1, published articles 1957-88;
Part 2, Analysis of current social history writing;
Part 3- Aspects of community history. Includes two colour maps in pocket at rear ( as published).
THIS COPY has been signed by the author.
VG softback
$30 B/B
Regional Press, 1999, 108pp.
ISBN0473055805 [#2638]
The history of the preeminent founding families of the South Island.
Rhodes of Purau and the Levels, Johnny Jones of Waikouaiti, Williams of Te Aute, Deans of Riccarton, Clifford of Stonyhurst, Bidwill of Pihautea, Morrison of Blairlogie, Robinson of Cheviot, McLean of Marae-Kakaho, Wilson of Rangitikei, Moore of Glenmark, Cracroft Wilson of Cashmere, Grigg of Longbeach, Teschmaker of Otago, Holden of Tikokino, Elworthy of Holme Station, Tripp of Orari Gorge, Westenra of Camla and Fitzgerald of the Springs
A limited edition of 800 copies.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with two short closed tears at head of front panel, mild rubbing, mild foxing to closed edges.
$25 C/B
Pegasus Press, 1949. First Edition, 140pp.
[#5613 ]
Register of Rolleston House College with known address as well as employment and military service history etc.
Includes 7pp history of Rolleston House before the register and also slipped in 8pp of address changes brought to notice since 1969 and 7pp list of housemen 1970-1974.
genealogy, enrolment
VG softback, saddle stapled sheets in printed paper wrappers, some soiling to covers.
$20 C/B
Caxton Press 1969 First Edition, 56pp
[#5648 ]
An insider's view of New Zealand Sheep Dog Trialling competitions and culture.
The author is well known as the presenter of Country Calendar and A Dog's Show.
ISBN 9780790006246
rural life, shepherding, mustering,
VG softback
$15 C/B
Reed 1998 first edition, 228pp.
[#5195 ]
New Zealand's Rise to International Insignificance.
An irreverent humorous take on New Zealand 'history', illustrated throughout with 'Victorian' cartoons.
ISBN 0589006681
satire, history, politics, godsown, godzone
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$10 C/B
Reed 1971 first edition, 126pp
[#4655 ]
A biography of one of New Zealand's most beloved politicians. Norman Kirk was the fourth Labour Prime Minister, and was commonly known as 'Big Norm" ISBN9781775535799
VG+ softback
$20 B/C
Random House New Zealand 2014, 512 pp [#2814 new zealand, history, politics, biography ]
In 1988 Robin and Louella Hanbury-Tenison explored rural New Zealand on horseback, following the Alps through the large high-country runs, raising funds for Riding for the Disabled.
From Mt. Linton northwards, across the Strait to Cape Reinga, with an excursion to Banks Peninsula.
They comment on the environment, the economy and the state of society, including what they saw as discrimination against Maori.
Well illustrated.
ISBN9781869410384
horse trekking, social commentary, Erewhon, Mesopotamia, Molesworth, Napier
VG hardback in VG dustjacket.
$20 C/C
Century Hutchinson 1989, 224pp.
[#3601]
Historical accounts selected from early New Zealand writing.
ISBN 9780723306573
Contents; The decision to colonise / Purchasing land / The Maori as warrior / Town and country / Practical Christianity / Man against nature / Colonial types / Women's work / Farming and business.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Whitcoulls 1981 first edition, 287pp illustrated.
[#5490 ]
The story of coins, tokens, promissory notes, bank notes and other forms of monetary exchange.
Invaluable information for coin collectors.
Southland Treasury Notes, numismatics, tradesmans tokens, reserve bank
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under removable plastic sleeve.
$30 C/C
John McIndoe Ltd 1972 first edition, 197pp illustrated throughout.
[#4889 ]
VG- scattered foxing, bookplate to fep
$20 B/B [NZ 77]
The Evening Star, Dunedin, 1962 first edition hardcover 4to, 68pp. Bookplate is a presentation one from the Chairman and managing director of John Edmond Ltd. Centennial publication of the hardware merchants.
The social, cultural and natural history of this Auckland beach, and the role it has played in nurturing many creative New Zealanders
ISBN 9780908988174
surf, surfing, Karekare beach, film
VG softback
$25 B/D
Exisle Publishing 2001, 240pp
[#4664 ]
The Story of N.Z. Forest Products Ltd.
A Company history of the paper milling and wood products firm.
ISBN 0340245443
VG hardback in VG dustjacket, with name to fep.
$35 C/C
Hodder 1982 first edition, 219pp + plates.
[#5077 ]
Where and how, to prospect for gold in NZ.
First published in 1952, this revised edition has black and white photographs, and includes dredging and quartz gold mining.
gold panning, prospecting, nz gold mining
VG softback stapled into photo pictorial wrappers.
$15 A/A
Pegasus Press 1964 second revised edition, 79pp.
[#1992 ]
VG VG
reduced to $10 C/C [NZ 112]
Reed 1976 hardcover, 268pp. Reminiscences of New Zealand rural life collected by Henderson from about both the islands. ISBN 0589002791
This Hamilton history includes Maori Land Wars etc.
biography, memoir, history, Hamilton, Ellen Hewett, colonial, Earl of Sefton, Captain James Duff Hewett, Toi Farm Wanganui
VG- hardback with papered boards with cloth spine, papered boards lightly sunned and soiled with small paper scuff at top corner affecting K of the title, lacks free end paper, minimal foxing.
$45 C/B
Campfield Press 1911 first edition, 89pp + plates
[#3938 ]
Focusing on the period up until World War II, the book examines in an anecdotal style the impact of the Scots - both positive and negative in the shaping of new lands, their continuing Scottishness, their integration and their achievements.
ISBN9780862417758
VG softback, gift inscription at front.
$25 C/C
Canongate 1998, 308pp. [#2910 genealogy, scotland, scots, australia, new zealand ]
This book records, in photographs and descriptive text, the rise and fall of more than seventy grand houses in New Zealand.
The ravages of time, accidental fires, and planned demolition reducing what were once opulent statements of wealth and sucess, to nothing.
ISBN0908578040
historic buildings, heritage, architecture, building
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with sun faded spine edge.
$30 B/C
Alister Taylor 1978, 102pp.
[#3703 ]
The author recalls her early days of medical practice amongst Maori of the Hokianga, with Dr G. M. Smith.
ISBN 0723303754
1940s Northland, Waipoua Forest, Doctor Jock Smith, Maori community
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with light wear to dust jacket.
$20 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1973 First Edition, 163pp + plates.
[#5650 ]
3 vols cover the whole of New Zealand with hundreds of farm estates mentioned with background, history and photographs, a record of New Zealand farms, stations and stock agents from the middle of the 20th century.
VG hardbacks with no jackets.
With a name to feps, blue leatherette with gilt to spine and cover, slightly sunned spines.
VOL 1 has a few leaves loosening at rear.
$195 heavy large parcel at 4kg, please enquire for a postal quote.
Cranwell Publishing 1957 First Edition, approx 1000pp.
[#5623 ]
VG in VG inscription to half title, dust jacket lightly rubbed
$30 C/B [NZ 31]
Hicks Smith & Sons 1971 hardcover x 231pp+ plates, map endpapers, random settlers before and after annexation, organised settlement, twentieth century settlement. ISBN 456005900
Wealth and Enterprise in New Zealand.
A history of the economic development of New Zealand and it's leaders, from the colonial runholders and industrialists, to stock market speculators and businessmen.
Includes list of those worth over $15 million dollar.
ISBN9780790009179
new edition, economics, biography,
VG softback
$15 C/C
Reed 2003 new edition, 333pp
[#4254 ]
Case studies and historical evidence show that the small, yet rapidly expanding firm, was a potent force in New Zealand's growth, and its entrepreneurship and innovation transformed the New Zealand economy in the late 19th century.
ISBN 9781869403812
capitalism, industry, colonial
VG+ softback
$25 B/C
Auckland University Press 2007 first edition, viii 280pp.
[#5509 ]
Sir Ewan Jamieson was Chief of the Defence Staff (New Zealand) and was closely involved with the ANZUS Treaty.
In this work he examines how the fall of the Soviet Union and Communism in Europe might change new Zealand's relationships with traditional allies and enemies.
ISBN 0080400817
politics, economics, defense, ANZUS, diplomacy, foreign relations
VG softback, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
$15 C/B
Brassey's 1990 first edition, 139pp.
[#4587 ]
A collection of accounts of supernatural and mysterious events from New Zealand's distant and recent past.
Includes Christchurch's Old Stone House, premonitions of the Napier Earthquake, and various ghost sightings.
ISBN0589011189
supernatural, haunting, Matakite
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with minor tears at corner folds.
$25 C/C
Reed 1978 first edition, 163pp.
[#3733 ]
New Zealand Mysteries including the Spanish Helmet, Tamil Bell, Korotangi, Wrecks, Sunken Gold, Treasure, Haunted Houses, Ghosts, Lost Tribe of Maori, Otters, Hakuwai Bird, Maori Dog, Lost Colony
Alternate history, archeology
VG softback with name and address inside cover
$10 C/A
Fontana Silver Fern 1976, 194pp with illustrations.
[#1898 nz history]
VG+ hardback in in VG+ dust jacket $25 C/C Reed 1970 first edition, 194pp+ plates, map endpapers.
[#2140 +2988]
Between 1904 and 1908 the steamshipNgapuhi sailed from Auckland to Doubtless Bay in the far north and back, with excursions along the way.
ISBN0908610173
VG softback with sun faded spine
$15 B/C
David Bateman 1983, 112pp.
[#3176 ]
One thousand years of human settlement and cultural and social development in New Zealand.
One of the best current histories of New Zealand.
ISBN9780670045501
maori, pakeha, colonial, modern, history
One thousand years of human settlement and cultural and social development in New Zealand.
ISBN0143018671
maori, pakeha, colonial, modern, history
VG softback
$10 C/B
Penguin Books 2003, 563 pages. [#2521, 3586 ]
Historian Michael King looks back and examines what it means to grow and live in a multi-cultural society. Part autobiography, and part celebration of New Zealand people and society.
ISBN0340382112
G+ softback with lightly faded cover and a school prize label to first page
$20 B/C
Hodder and Stoughton 1986, 214pp. [#2936 new zealand, history ]
A history of the Islands including Moriori, sealing, whaling, farming. Chudleigh and the German, Maori and Pakeha arrivals.
ISBN1869410734
new zealand history, chatham islands, photography
VG- hardback with VG- dust jacket. Rear board of book is soiled and minor soiling to endpapers. Pen names to free end paper at front.
$45 B/C
Random Century NZ Ltd. 1990, 144 pp. [#2973 ]
Wellington memoirs from the early 20th century
VG hardback in VG dustjacket
$20 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1962 first edition hard cover, 232pp+ plates, also line illustrations. [#1128/2442 ]
A study of the early colonial history of the Bay of Islands, from Cook's landing to the defeat of Hongi Heke's uprising.
Includes lists of whakapapa / genealogy.
ISBN0340338784
New Zealand, Colonial History, Nineteenth Century, Northland, Hongi Hika, Maori Wars, de Thierry
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$40 C/C
Hodder 1983 first edition, 328pp + plates
[#3773 ]
A Musterer's year on Ngamatea- New Zealand's biggest sheep station.
High country sheep farming, mustering in Hawkes Bay.
ISBN0340157763
VG hardback with VG dust jacket with light edgewear, inscriptions to fep, SIGNED by AUTHOR to half title dated 1971
$95 C/B
Hodder 1971 first edition, 176pp+ plates. [#5361]
The 150th Anniversary of the Wellington Hebrew Congregation, 1843-1993.
A history of the Jewish community in Wellington from the earliest Jewish immigrants, establishment of the Synagogue, creation of Jewish schools and associations etc.
Limited to 1250 copies.
ISBN0908790821
judaism, hebrew, jews in new zealand, jewish history
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$55 D/D
Hazard Press 1995 First Edition, 478pp.
[#4338 ]
Covers the 1886 Tarawera eruption which buried the tourist Pink and White Terraces at Rotomahana.
The Pink Terrace, Te Otukapuarangi ("The fountain of the clouded sky"), and the White Terrace, Te Tarata ("the tattooed rock"), were reportedly the largest silica sinter deposits on earth.
Black and white photos in the text, many full page, as well as maps. Double column text.
Rotorua, geothermal, volcanic, geology
VG softback with pink paper wrappers printed in black with adverts on the inside and rear covers.
Some light foxing to the margins of the frontis. shows on the reverse only. Stapled with three staples and the covers glued on as issued.
$55 B/B
New Zealand Newspapers Ltd. 1938 new edition completely revised, 60pp + folding colour frontis.
[#3615 ]
An in depth account of a pioneer New Zealand family, spanning four generations and compiled from family records.
The MacDonald family of Canterbury, descended from Ronald MacDonald (1785-1825) and Margaret Mary Mackintosh (1789-1876).
A colourful family history.
genealogy, colonial
VG softback with author's signature to title page.
$25 C/B
John MacDonald 2002, 166 pages + plates.
[#3651 ]
A History of the New Zealand Federation of University Women 1921-1981
ISBN 0959762809
suffrage, emancipation, women's rights, education, women's education in New Zealand
VG softback
$20 C/C
New Zealand Federation of University Women 1982 first edition, 179pp, errata page slipped in at front.
[#4838 ]
VG- name to first page, cheaply bound $30 B/B New Zealand Institute of Valuers, undated (1970s?) quarter cloth with paper covers, 211pp. Mimeographed typescript with diagrams in text. [#2352]
Images of a city and its provinces from the 1860s to the 1890s as photographed by James Bragge.
Includes folding panoramas.
photography, 19th century, historic photos
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with some edge wear and minor tears.
$25 B/C
Millwood Press 1974, 100pp.
[#3682 ]
Watea Estate in the Manukau Harbour was absorbed by Auckland Airport in 1965, but before then was a community of farms situated near the Auckland Aero Club, Mangere Aerodrome and later RNZAF Mangere (1939-1944).
ISBN 0473102382
Westney, Te Wiroa Island, Westney Road Church, Noakes Homestead
VG softback
$25 C/A
Mangere Historical Society 2005, 62pp + folding photo at rear.
[#5075 ]
The New Zealand Company and E G Wakefield's methods of attracting settlers.
colonial new zealand, Baron Charles de Thierry, Governor Hobson, Tory, Wakefield
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1962 first edition, 224pp + plates.
[#4026 ]
Some New Zealand Founders with reference to fifty early pioneers in Marlborough, Manawatu, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Wellington.
new zealand, colonial history, biography, genealogy, family history, ninettenth century, immigration
VG hardback in VG- dustjacket with light surface rubbing.
$25 C/B
Reed 1966 first edition, 213pp.
[#4899 ]
The first published edition of Markham's manuscript account of his leaving Gravesend in 1833, via Van Diemen's Land to New Zealand, where he spent eight months in the Hoking and Bay of Islands, and describes Maori and Pakeha of the time. Edited with introduction and explanatory notes, glossary and bibliograpy.
New Zealand, history, maori pakeha, primary source
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under removable plastic sleeve. Name blacked out to free end paper.
$30 B/C
Government Printer 1963
[#3489 ]
VG softback $25 B/C Wairarapa Archive 2005. 219 pages. ISBN 0958205396 [#2332 nz history wairarapa ]
The History of the New Zealand Customs Department.
ISBN 0959797904
customs and excise, border security, smuggling, government department, border control
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Silver Owl Press / New Zealand Customs Department 1991 first edition, 207pp.
[#5193 ]
The fascinating history of Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour.
ISBN 9781877228377
quarantine island, POW internment, enemy aliens, ww1, ww2
VG softback
$25 B/B
Steele Roberts 2001, 160pp
[#4662 ]
VG hardback in G+ dustjacket with small stain at top of front panel
$15 B/C
Lower Hutt City Council, 1991, 235 pages. ISBN1869560175 [#2613 new zealand, history, Wellington ]
Collection of historical documentation from New Zealand history.
ISBN 198730101
G+ softback, covers creased and lightly worn.
$15 C/C
Oxford University Press 1971, xxix 489pp.
[#5403 ]
G+ G+ ex-library but tidy, DW under plastic sleeve.
$10 C/C [NZ 94]
Hicks Smith & Sons 1970 first edition hardcover 4to, 231pp illustrated throughout.
"The Old Whaling Days is the story of New Zealand's wildest days, when French & American Ships as well as British scoured the coastline for the the sperm whale.
It was a time when violent crimes went unpunished as there were no laws and when a British sea captain helped Te Rauparaha to slaughter an Akaroa chief and his people."
ISBN0855584327
new zealand, history, Cook Strait, Otago, Foveaux Strait, Chatham Islands
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Slight sunning to spine of jacket, small tear top of upper fold, name and address to half title
$30 C/C
Golden Press 1975 facsimile reprint of 1913 edition, 508pp.
[#1947 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Golden Press 1975 facsimile reprint of 1913 edition, 508pp.
[#3579 ]
Taylor was a Church Missionary Society member in the North Island in the Nineteenth Century amongst Maori.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some edge wear.
$35 C/C
Reed 1966, 272pp + plates
[#3072/4165 ]
An informative, historic, authentic narrative, written by one of the pioneers born on Great Barrier Island.
Whangapara, Okupu, Tryphena, Fitzroy, Hauraki Gulf
VG softback Signed by the author.
$30 C/A
Wilson and Horton 1971, Enlarged second revised edition, 119 pages + plates.
[#2432 ]
VG softback.
$30 C/A
Grace Medland 1969, first edition, 104 pages + plates.
[#3745 ]
Author was second in command of the Red Escort Group ( police riot squad) battling the anti-tour protesters and communist insurgents within the movement. With illustrations in the text.
ISBN0908630069
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$20 C/C
Harlen 1982 first edition, 216pp.
[#1367 ]
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket
$15 C/C
Harlen 1982 first edition, 216pp.
[#3364 ]
The Treaty of Waitangi (1840) and the Treaty of Waitangi Act (1975).
Sober, informed study of the Treaty of Waitangi and the sham Treaty act of 1975 which placed unwarranted emphasis on the documents relevance to current policy.
ISBN 047300934X
VG softback with contact sealed covers.
$25 C/B
Cadsonbury 1990 first edition, 226pp.
[#4738 ]
Centennial history of the Borough.
Black and white and colour photos throughout.
Manukau harbour, Maungakiekie, Fencibles,
VG hardback in G dustjacket with edge wear and tape repaired tear to spine.
$25 C/B
Onehunga Borough Council 1977 first edition, 104pp.
[#5102 ]
The story of the Wellington Fire Brigade, 1865-1965.
fire fighting, fire board, new zealand, history, Wellington Volunteer Fire Police Corps
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Jacket has wear, tear and some loss.
The book has surface wear to covers and the first blank page has been removed.
$45 C/B
Wellington Fire Brigade 1965 first edition, 156+22pp. of adverts.
[#4185 ]
dramatic stories of Europeans discovering and exploring New Zealand during the first half of the 1800s.
Ocean adventures, cross-country trekking, imperial and spiritual conquests, first contacts with Maori, artists seeking the 'sublime', scientific discovery and commercial pursuits all intertwine to form a fascinating portrait of a land undergoing immense change.
ISBN 9780143570554
Jules Dumont d'Urville, Samuel Marsden, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Charles Heaphy
VG softback, name to first page.
$20 C/C
Penguin 2014 first edition, 251pp + plates.
[#5503 ]
Tom Bell was a born pioneer who, after fighting in the Maori wars of the sixties decided that the one thing he wanted more than anything else was to find an uninhabited Pacific Island, take his wife and young children there, and open it up as a trading station.
In 1878 they came eventually to Sunday Island six hundred miles north of Auckland.
This is a desert island story. It has elements of both Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, but has the added interest of being absolutely true.
Sunday Island is a tiny fertile volcanic island which was haunted by ill-luck. From the start the family had to live the life of desert islanders.
They had bought food supplies from the captain of the trading schooner from which they landed, but when they began to unpack the cases of food they found all of it rotten.
They had been deserted as well as cheated, for the schooner never returned and it was nearly another year before they saw anyone.
Tom and Frederica Bell raised a family of ten in utter isolation and after years of effort and setbacks they made an Eden of their island only to lose it in the end.
The story was told to the author by one of Tom Bell's daughters who was nine years old when the family landed on the island.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with small splits to edges. Lightly soiled wrapper
$55 C/B
G Bell 1957 first reprint, hard cover, 189pp + plates. [#2489 nz history ]
G+ hardback in VG dust jacket. Jacket flaps pasted down to endpaper. some tape rust to jacket flaps and endpapers. Ex-library with stamps to endpapers only.
$35 C/B
G Bell 1957 FIRST EDITION, 189pp + plates
[#3138 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Gift inscription to free endpapers.
$55 C/B
Reed 1964 New Zealand edition, 189pp + plates
[#3847 ]
G+ quarter cloth, boards and spine lightly rubbed, no dust jacket $20 C/C Longmans Green and Co. Ltd., 1927 first edition, 226 pages [#2347 nz history]
A comprehensive academic study of New Zealand politics.
Explains the main political institutions in the context of New Zealand society, and the general theories of the state, including pluralism, public choice market liberalism, and Marxism.
ISBN 9781869400934
VG- softback with some highlighting.
$15 C/C
Auckland University Press 1994, 324pp.
[#5599 ]
VG- softback slightly sunned.
$20 C/C
Auckland University Press 1997 second edition, vii 344pp. ISBN9781869401719
[#5683 ]
The 2nd March 1987 earthquake in the Eastern Bay of Plenty which caused damage and distress on the Rangitaiki Plains.
The author was a guidance counsellor at Edgecumbe College.
He produced this himself and it has a variety of different typesets, with photos and diagrams throughout.
seismic, natural disaster, community response, Matata, Thornton, Edgecumbe Fault, Te Teko, Kawerau
G+ softback with minor crease and surface wear to cover.
Foolscap size.
$35 B/C
Adrian Muller (1987?), 223pp.
[#4107 ]
Presented to F. L. W. Wood and J. C. Beaglehole on the occasion of their retirement..
New Zealand & Pacific / Oceania includes Samoa, Te Tikanga Pekeke, Governor Grey, Anzus Treaty, Missionaries etc.
pasifika studies, oceania, pacific academia
VG hardback in VG but rubbed dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Reed 1969 first edition, 274pp.
[#4841 ]
The story of German Missionaries on the Chatham Islands and their tribulations with the natives.
ISBN0908568037
Moriori, missionary, Te Kooti, Te Minita Tika, J H Baucke, Johan Gottfried Engst, Wharekauri, Hau-Hau
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket, with sunned spine.
$75 C/C
Pegasus Press 1977 first edition, 174pp + plates.
[#4163 ]
VG minor label residue to cover.
$20 C/C [Item# 58 NZ]
Oxford University Press 1989 first edition softcover x 310pp + plates. A history of prison security in New Zealand, Mt Eden and Paremoremo 1880 to the present. ISBN 0195581792.
Fond memories of working horses by a man who spent a lifetime in the High Country as musterer and station manager.
Stories from Lake Coleridge Station, Arthurs Pass, Banks Peninsula, Broken River, Castle Hill, Grasmere Station, Mesopotamia Station, Porters Pass and Springfield etc.
ISBN0589011251
equine, horses, hacks, pack horse
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Has a birthday gift inscription on the half-title page.
$25 C/C
AH and AW Reed 1978, 139pp.
[#4105 ]
Peter recounts travelling about 48 farms and stations in the Big Country of the West and North of the North Island.
ISBN0589007181
farming, high country, cattle country, Orongorongo, Te Paki
VG hardback in VG dustjacket under plastic sleeve.
$25 B/C
Reed 1972, 224pp + plates.
[#4450 ]
A survey of New Zealand geography, anthropology, economy, trade, labour, Samoan Mandate and chapter on Amateur Radio, two chapters on Immigration.
Volume 1 of a series by the New Zealand Branch of the Institute of Pacific Relations.
G Quarter cloth, Ex-college library, stamps to paste downs and endpapers only, small ink numbers at foot of introduction.
$25 C/B
L M Isitt Limited 1929 First Edition, x 241pp.
[#4505 ]
The history of the interaction between women and the policies of the New Zealand State.
ISBN9780908812974
feminism, women, gender equality, domesticity, labour legislation, welfare
VG softback
$35 C/C
Canterbury University Press 2000, 386pp.
[#3964 ]
VG softback $20 B/B Reed / Gold Star 1981 sewn sheets in card wrappers, 4to, 108pp + colour plates. ISBN 0589010352 [#2337 nz history waikato ]
16 chapters by different experts covers New Zealand history from the Polynesian foundation to the late 20th century socio-political climate. Includes pre-European, Colonial, and post-Colonial periods. Many maps, charts and diagrams. ISBN019558063X
VG softback, name at front page
$25 B/C
Oxford University Press 1988, 572pp. [#2861 new zealand history ]
16 chapters by different experts covers New Zealand history from the Polynesian foundation to the late 20th century socio-political climate. Includes pre-European, Colonial, and post-Colonial periods. Many maps, charts and diagrams. ISBN0195580621
VG softback
$25 B/C
Oxford University Press 1981, 572pp. [#2789 new zealand history ]
Continuity and change in a New Zealand Township.
ISBN 0868612898
sociology
VG soft cover, sunned spine, minor pencil underlining.
$15 C/B
George Allen Unwin 1980 first edition, 204 pp.
[#5402 ]
VG VG- short edge tears and chip from head of DW spine.
$6 C/C [NZ 144]
Whitcoulls 1982 first edition hardcover, 250pp. Illustrated in line throughouit by Sarah Marston. A journalist rleates his travel about both islands on a cycle and the people and places he encounters. ISBN 0723306745
Captioned colour photographs of places of note in the Chatham Islands.
ISBN 9780908887256
Rekohu, Wharekauri, photo journalism, moriori
VG landscape format softback, has a long gift inscription on the inside of the front cover.
$45 B/B
Cosmos Publications 1999 first edition, 92pp.
[#4813 ]
An immigrants from Germany, Johann Hermann Seifert took up flax-milling in the long depression of 1889.
His seven sons milled flax across New Zealand from Southland to the Waikato.
ISBN064644025X
new zealand, manufacturing, textiles, industry, genealogy, Turakina, Paiaka, Okuku, Miranui
VG softback
$30 B/C
Jane Pollard 2004, viii 159pp.
[#3845 ]
One of the best travel guides to New Zealand, with detailed historical information as well as current points of note. Valued by tour guides for the local history notes.
ISBN 9780790001555
VG softback
$30 B/C
Reed 1993 8th edition fully revised, 326pp.
[#4658B ]
One of the best travel guides to New Zealand, with detailed historical information as well as current points of note. Valued by tour guides for the local history notes.
ISBN9780790004364
VG+ softback
$30 B/C
Reed 1996 9th edition fully revised, 326pp.
[#3400B ]
One of the best travel guides to New Zealand, with detailed historical information as well as current points of note. Valued by tour guides for the local history notes.
ISBN9780474001307
VG softback
$20 B/C
Reed 1986 4th edition fully revised, 422pp.
[#4221B ]
One of the best travel guides to New Zealand, with detailed historical information as well as current points of note. Valued by tour guides for the local history notes.
ISBN 9780790001005
VG softback
$30 B/C
Reed 1990 5th edition fully revised, 422pp.
[#5610 ]
VG pencil name to fep, light foxing to closed edges.
$15 C/C [NZ 93]
Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd. 1935 first edition cloth, 304pp +8 plates. Czech authors record of 10 months in NZ. Includes an account of the Napier 'quake of '31.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with minor ink spot to front, browned backstrip, book has small name to free end paper $15 C/C Whitcombe and Tombs 1964 cloth first edition, 142pp. [#2325 nz history ]
Archeological survey of
the remains of the Shore Whaling stations. The industry was based on the right whale, source of black oil , and whale-bone (baleen). When right whale became scarce sperm whales
and humpbacks were taken. Early stations in New Zealand were at Preservation Inlet and Te Awaiti (Tory Channel) from 1829.
ISBN0478222084
VG+ softback
4to. THIS COPY is signed "Thanks Alan, Nigel Prickett"
$75 B/C
Department of Conservation 2002, 151pp.
[#3088]
A biography of an aristocratic Frenchman who disputed the British Crown's right to land he had purchased from the Maori Hongi Hika who he met in England in 1820, prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Hika purchased 500 muskets with the proceeds of the land sale and embarked on what became the Musket Wars, which have been attributed with turning Maori opinion in favour of a Treaty with the British Crown.
Resident in Hokianga his grandiose plans failed yet he continued to agitate for the establishment of a French colony led by himself until the Treaty of Waitangi made this impossible.
One of the eccentrics of the colonisation of New Zealand.
ISBN0908563000
New Zealand Maori, Colonial History, King Nuku Hiva
VG softback in G+ dust jacket.
Proof copy in printed paper wrappers, dust jacket has fore edge taped and some short tears at spine ends.
Original folded and sewn sheets but not cased in a hard cover.
$30 B/C
Caxton Press 1977, 362pp + plates and maps.
[#4050 ]
Reed recounts his extensive walking tours across the whole country between 1915 and 1958. Includes his time at Trentham with D Company 21st reinforcements. Reed fills in his own observations with interesting historical and geographical facts.
VG hardback in G dust jacket with some repaired chips and tears. THIS COPY is signed by Reed, but also has a name address and gift inscription to the title and dedication pages.
$15 C/C
Reed 1958 first edition, 374pp + plates and 2pp maps.
[#3323 ]
Reed recounts his extensive walking tours across the whole country between 1915 and 1958. Includes his time at Trentham with D Company 21st reinforcements. Reed fills in his own observations with interesting historical and geographical facts.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket trimmed a little shorter than the boards and sewn into a plastic sleeve.
$20 C/C
Reed 1958 first edition, 374pp + plates, maps.[#2804 new zealand, history, travel ]
A popular overview history of New Zealand.
Revised edition with additional chapters by A J Harrop, introduction by James Hight and a comment by Bernard Shaw.
Cloth with gilt waka prow design.
VG hardback with VG- unclipped dust jacket with faded spine titling.
Name to free end paper.
$35 C/C
Unwin 1950 fourth revised edition, 390pp +plates and folding map at rear.
[#4683 ]
A memoir of his time spent piloting paddle boats on the long Wanganui river, as well as a history of the river and commerce on it.
ISBN0473020904
river boats, wanganui river, paddle steamers, transport, pipiriki, taumaranui
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, signed by Alec Reid to title page.
$35 C/B
Paddlewheels Press1993 second edition, 127pp.
[#3848 ]
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand.
This book details New Zealand's worst public health crisis, with over 8,500 New Zealanders dead from influenza and pneumonia in just six weeks.
Nearly a quarter of the victims were Maori, who died at seven times the death rate of European New Zealanders.
This book answers many questions about the November 1918 'Spanish' influenza pandemic.
First published in 1988, this edition has three new chapters, over forty first-hand eyewitness accounts, and over 200 photographs and cartoons, many here published for the first time.
ISBN 9781877257353
VG+ hardback with no dust jacket as issued.
$65 B/D
Canterbury University Press 2005 Revised and Enlarged Edition, 327pp.
[#5508 ]
A history of the social, cultural and economic impacts of sealing and whaling operations upon the Chatham Islands and the Moriori. Roebuck Society Publication No. 21
ISBN0909434123
VG hardback but lacks the dust jacket
$75 B/B
Roebuck Society 1982, 89 pages.[#2959 chatham islands, whaling, sealing ]
Accounts of early whalers and their settlements by the likes of Bishop Selwyn, Dr. Shortland, Ernest Dieffenbach and Edward Jerningham Wakefield and others. Includes whaling in Australia and the Pacific, and the New England American background of many of the whalers.
The first edition.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$90 C/C
Minerva Ltd 1965 First Edition, 163pp + plates. Map endpapers.
[#3061 ]
VG hardback with VG dust jacket under plastic sleeve, small area white out and offset tape stain to free end paper $25 C/C Minerva 1967 first edition SIGNED COPY by author, 140pp + plates. [#2334 nz history ]
Details the history and growth of the New Zealand Postal Service, from the background in Britain to colonial times and up to the present (1964).
Includes a chapter on the mail during the two world wars.
postal, mail, philatelics
VG hardback in VG- dustjacket with surface rubbing, spine faded a little.
$30 B/C
Government Printer 1964 first edition, 280pp+ plates, map end papers.
[#3618 ]
The author discusses his role in the Department, and an overview of it's history, with emphasis on the 1960s.
Includes discussion of Barnett, Findlay, Matthews, Dallard eras.
Penal Administration and Policy; Capital Punishment; Constitutional Questions.
ISBN0477013732
law, criminology, judiciary, crime
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Ex library with stamps etc, jacket under plastic sleeve.
$25 C/C
Government Print 1987 first edition, xiv 296pp + plates.
[#4334 ]
VG softback with small name label inside cover $20 B/C Government Print 1986 first edition,195pp + colour plates. ISBN 0477013694 [#2335 nz history ]
The Story of the Irish in New Zealand.
How the Irish colonists and immugrants have contirbuted to the New Zealand culture and economy, through their skills, beliefs, and old animosities.
ISBN9781869412883
irish, celtic, genealogy, colonial, history
VG softback with dust jacket. Name to first page.
$25 B/D
Random House 1996, 246pp.
[#3830 ]
"A Priceless Gem in the Imperial Crown" by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Public Health.
An in depth overview of New Zealand in 1919 focusing on the economy and trade, parliament, finance and immigration.
statistics, twentieth century, demographics
G+ hardback with papered boards.
Upper joint split, Canterbury Education Board rubber stamp dated 1925 to free end paper and title pages, age browning and handling soiling to closed edges and covers.
$15 C/C
G W Russell Ltd Christchurch, [viii] 332 + 8pp well illustrated with photographs.
[#4877 ]
A history of the house in New Zealand.
From the first colonial immigrant tents, huts and raupo whare, to cob and drystone huts, timber cottages, villas and bungalows, and right up to the brick and plaster dwellings of the 1950s and 60s.
This book focuses on construction details, embellishments and decorative details.
This information will be invaluable to people restoring a heritage building, or just those interested in the history of the old houses in their neighbourhood.
With many photos of construction details, and period advertising illustrations from hardware and building material suppliers.
ISBN079000027X
architecture, housing, building, historic, heritage, colonial
VG+ softback.
$35 B/C
Reed 1990 reprint, 247pp.
[#4217 ]
An historical novel, originally published in 1914, and set during the upheaval of the Maori Wars. Noted for its historical accuracy and non-partisanship.
ISBN0855582855
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Golden Press 1973, 400pp.
[#3266 ]
Alan Sayers recounts the most interesting news stories from his career as a ground-breaking photo journalist.
ISBN 9780473280185
new zealand history,
VG softback
$25 C/C
Alan Sayers 2014 first edition, 288pp.
[#4972 ]
Dust jacket design by Dick Frizzell. Colonisation of West Auckland, including pottery and brickworks industries.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with chipping loss to corners and spine ends
$45 B/C
Southern Cross Books 1979 first edition, 224 pages. Illustrated. [#2429 nz history, auckland ]
A genealogical history of seven families from the north-east Kaipara Harbour.
Includes the Blackwells, W. Heath Jackman, Kohinga Mika Haira, Edward Pook, Henry Scotland, Count Lionel de Labrosse and the Prime Minister Gordon Coates.
Discusses the interaction with the Ngati Whatua peoples of the area.
VG softback
$35 B/C
Hodder/ Southern Cross 1988, softcover reprint 160pp.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$45 B/C
Hodder/ Southern Cross 1987, first edition 160pp.
Pegasus Press New Zealand Holiday Guide.
A vintage travel guide for Stewart Island.
VG+ softback, with sheets stapled in pictorial wrappers, some fading to cover
$15 A/A
Pegasus Press 1973 fifth revised edition, 56pp + plates. [#2787 ]
The first 50 years of Independent Fisheries Ltd. Starting in 1954 from a fish and chip shop in Linwood, this Christchurch and Canterbury based business has successfully expanded its plant and operations. ISBN9780473160661
VG+ softback
$30 B/C
Independent Fisheries Ltd. 2009, 116pp. [#2815 new zealand, history, business, company history ]
A record of oral history recorded by Simpson about the Great Depression in New Zealand in the 1930s. The Labour movement, riots, rise of the Labour government.
VG+ softback, sewn binding.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1984 second edition, 223pp.
[#2428 ]
A record of oral history recorded by Simpson about the Great Depression in New Zealand in the 1930s. The Labour movement, riots, rise of the Labour government.
This is the large format first edition.
VG softback
$25 B/C
Alister Taylor 1974 First edition, 168pp.
[#3006 ]
First envisaged as early as 1854, it was not until the late 1800s that the University was established.
An exhaustive account of the students, staff and curriculum through the years at Auckland University.
ISBN0196480213
education, tertiary, academia
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Name to free end paper.
$35 B/D
Auckland University Press 1983, 364pp.
[#4270 ]
A History of the Bank of New South Wales in New Zealand 1861-1961.
Finding it's feet during the gold-rush days, and maturing through the establishment of colonial companies and businesses.
finance, history, banks, colonial banking, goldfields, Taranaki Dairy Co-op
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with light wear. Name to first page.
$15 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1961, xiv 266pp.
[#3902 ]
This biography gives details of Nash's 40 year political career, and the state of NZ politics in this period.
He was Prime Minister for one term, and was instrumental in the implementation of the Labour Party's Welfare State.
ISBN0196479665
new zealand, politics
VG softback
$15 C/C
Auckland University Press 1977, 439pp.
[#3829 ]
16 chapters describing various socio-political themes in the post-war New Zealand as of 1947.
new zealand, social comment, satire, caricatures, Labour Government
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket
$15 C/B
Hicks Smith and Wright (1947) 120pp.
[#3917 ]
VG hardback with no dust jacket
$8 C/B
Hicks Smith and Wright (1947) 120pp.
[#4071 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with small tear at bottom of spine joint. Name to fep. $25 B/C New Zealand Post 1997 first edition, 232 pages. ISBN0473043890 [#2484 new zealand business history ]
A history of the wine industry in New Zealand. From the early 1820s vines were planted at various places in the Far North. Recounts the impact of Dalmatian immigrants, and the retarding influence of the Temperance movement and the aggression of the beer industry. If it weren't for Catholic priests, winemaking may have died out altogether. This carefully researched history uncovers the fascinating story of wine in this country and highlights the remarkable characters who believed in it and whose passion drove it forward, even in its darkest decades. Illustrated.
ISBN9781869620707
VG softback with VG dust jacket
$75 D/D
Godwit 2010, 448pp.
[#3105 ]
The Life of the 19th Century Surveyor Pictured in his Art and Writings, an account of the exploration and settlement of New Zealand, seen through the eyes of men whose curiosity and spirit drove them into the unknown.
Published for the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors.
ISBN 9780705514026
Contents: The surveyor as an artist / Introducing the colonial surveyor / Getting there and back / The survey camp / Cadets, chiefs, bosses, cooks and chainmen / Out in the field / Kai living off the land / Diversion /About the coasts / Around the towns / Out from the towns / Minerals and mountains / Tarawera, the Volcanic Plateau and Waitomo / Troubles / A toast to wives and sweethearts.
VG Hardback in VG dust jacket.
$45 C/C
Highgate/Price Milburn 1988 First edition, 175pp.
[#5587 ]
The struggle for social and economic security in the face of poverty, unemployment and depression.
Originally published in 1942 this has been augmented by two-thirds extra material.
Labour, socialism, New Zealand political history, politics
VG sewn binding in stiff card covers, name to half title, minor pencil underlining.
$15 C/B
Oxford Univ. Press 1966 first edition, xvi 512pp.
[#5423 ]
Swainson was the second, and last, Attorney-General of the Crown colony of New Zealand and was instrumental in setting up the legal system. He was the first Speaker of the New Zealand Legislative Council. He published this work anonymously, intending it as a guide for new colonists. It is a rare record of early Auckland and surrounds at a time when few accounts were being made of the rapidly changing times.
A Facsimile of 1853 Edition
VG+ softback
$10 C/A
Wilson and Horton, 163pp.
[#3356]
Taylor edits Best's personal Journal where he describes his time in New Zealand and Australia as an Army Officer serving onboard a convict ship.
Includes observations of New South Wales, Norfolk Island, and New Zealand with observations on Maori and New Zealand settlements.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with sunned spine
$30 B/D
Govt. Printer 1966, 465pp + plates.
[#1774 / 3375 ]
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
$20 B/D
Govt. Printer 1966, 465pp + plates.
[#3710 ]
Over 300 historic early farm buildings described and their history given. Illustrated with many photographs. A rare book on New Zealand's agricultural engineering heritage.
ISBN9780474000232
architecture, rural, heritage buildings, historic places
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$95 B/D
Reed Methuen Books 1986, 268pp.
[#3561 ]
A regional history of the settlements that coalesced into Manukau district.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with a little surface and edge rubbing, spine slightly faded. Book has some minor waving of pages from atmospheric damp.
$70 C/C
Tonson Publishing 1966 first edition, 336pp + plates.
[#3765 ]
A descriptive book of authors travel around New Zealand with monochrome plates.
20th century travel guide, tourism
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket, chipped to spine ends and corners with short edge tears.
$45 C/C
George Allen Unwin 1935 FIRST EDITION cloth 295pp + plates
[#5706 ]
Her second book of New Zealand life and travel.
She travels all over NZ as well as Australia.
Papakura Pa, Waiora, Whakapapa Glacier, Awakino Valley, Kawhia, Westland, Franz Josef, Waipori, Blue Mountains, Jeolan,
VG- cloth hardback with no jacket.
Extreme corner of free end paper chipped with ink inscription dated 1931, bookseller stamp, rear free end paper and paste down some minor silverfish damage.
$25 C/B
Wilson & Horton, 1929. First Edition, 270 pp on sized art paper accompanied by 18 photographs by the author.
[#5730 ]
New Plymouth regional history with 128 photos, some in colour.
VG hardback with no jacket.
$20 C/C
New Plymouth City Council 1981 First Edition, 350pp + plates, map endpapers
[#4723 ]
Journalist investigates the disputes between staff, the union, and management at the Bluff Ocean Beach meat processing plant. ISBN0908720009
industrial relations, trade union, meatworks, meat processing, Bluff, New Zealand Meat Workers' Union
G softback with wear and soiling to covers.
$15 C/B
Sycamore Print 1985 reprint, 148pp.
[#3452 ]
Christchurch businessman Alfred Tyree travelled to England and back to deal with an embezzler in his employ in London.
His wife accompanied him on the trip round Cape Horn, returning via Canada, and keeping the diary entries printed here for the first time.
Limited edition of 200 numbered copies
ISBN0473041081
private press, hand printed, Alice Tyree
FINE copy in maroon cloth, with slipped in 'order form', and tiped in frontis. portrait of Alice.
The form has '62' penned in, and the limitation page is numbered as copy 62.=
$45 C/B
The Arbor Press, Robinson's Bay 1996 first edition, 129pp.
[#5713 ]
Vaggioli was in New Zealand from 1879 to 1887 and worked in Gisborne, Auckland and the Corormandel as one of the first Benedictine priests to be sent to New Zealand.
Written in response to requests for information on New Zealand this covers the founding of New Zealand, Maori culture, colonial government and much more.
First published 1896 in Italian, it was supressed because of its criticism of the colonial government and its treatment of the Maori.
ISBN 1877133523
VG+ quality trade paperback, sewn binding.
$35 C/C
University Otago Press 2000, 340 pages.
[#3037]
The Autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli (1845-1921).
Vaggioli was among the first Benedictine Monks sent to New Zealand, arriving in 1879 and returning home in 1887.
He worked in Gisborne, Auckland and the Coromandel.
Vaggioli was unique amongst European commentators of the nineteenth century in his view that New Zealand belonged to the Maori, and that the British had no moral right to take it from them.
Translated by John Crockett.
ISBN 1877276111
Missions, Nouvelle-Zelande, religion
VG softback, faint sun fade at base of cover.
$35 C/C
University of Otago Press 2001 first edition, xx 271pp.
[#4874 ]
A Centennial History of Piako County.
In the Kaimai Ranges, Piako County once included Matamata County. The three rivers Waihou, Waitoa and Piako flow through it.
ISBN 0868640018
regional history, Waikato.
THIS PRESENTATION COPY (#2747) has been signed by More to title page. A presentation plate, signed by the County Chairman and County Clerk, states this copy was presented to Robert Muldoon, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, at the Centennial Dinner function for the Counties of Piako, Waikato and Waipa. This plate is detached from where it was glued in, as the glue has dried out. It has left brown marks to the verso of the frontispiece.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with slightly sunned spine.
$40 C/D
Wilson & Horton 1976, 366pp+ plates. [#2747]
VG hardback but lacks dust jacket. Names to free endpaper.
$25 C/D
Wilson & Horton 1976, 366pp+ plates. [#5044]
A Centennial History of the New Zealand Government Life Insurance Office
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with minor wear or chipping to head of spine
$20 C/C
Wilson & Horton 1969 first edition decorative boards, 240pp. [#2339 nz history company history]
Early travels (1830s) amongst North Island Maori with ethnological and botanical observations.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with a few short edge tears. Book has a bookplate to the endpaper, name stamp fep, small amount of writing to rear paste down $45 C/B Capper Press 1977 first facsimile of 1842 edition, hardcover, 206pp. [#2316 maori ]
An introductory history to the movement in New Zealand.
religion, christian, charitable, crusade, salvationist
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$15 C/B
Salvation Army (1963) first edition hard cover, 84pp + plates
[#967/5602 ]
This abridgement excises Wakefield's "partisan" writings against his enemies in New Zealand, while retaining his well received account of the Colony at the time. He describes in detail the social conditions during the founding of the colony and its explorations in New Zealand, and includes detailed first-hand ethnographic information concerning the Maori tribes the expedition encountered. A valuable and fascinating insight into the society and development of one of the earliest colonies of New Zealand.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$30 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1955 first abridged edition, xviii 320pp + plates. [#2934 ]
This abridgement excises Wakefield's "partisan" writings against his enemies in New Zealand, while retaining his well received account of the Colony at the time. He describes in detail the social conditions during the founding of the colony and its explorations in New Zealand, and includes detailed first-hand ethnographic information concerning the Maori tribes the expedition encountered. A valuable and fascinating insight into the society and development of one of the earliest colonies of New Zealand.
ISBN0855584408
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with sunned spine
$15 C/C
Golden Press 1987, xx 320pp.[#1706, 1797, 3921 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with sunned spine, lacks free end paper
$15 C/C
Golden Press 1987, xx 320pp.[#1714 ]
The Story of New Zealand and Descriptions of its Cities and Towns also The Natural Wonders of New Zealand.
Large format landscape book with 16 lithographic plates of New Zealand scenes. This is a facsimile reproduction of the 1888 original. Includes "Mount Tarawera in Eruption, June 10, 1886", and 1 black & white lithographic plate of the Waitomo Caves. The facsimile edition was limited to 1000 numbered copies.
panoramic plates, new zealand city scapes, art, Victorian
VG- hardback with pictorial boards and leather spine. There is some surface insect damage to the covers. Comes in original protective cardboard case. THIS COPY is #624
$150 D/D
No Publisher 1967, unpaginated.
[#3566 ]
A companion volume to Professor Wall's New Zealand English
Preface: "This little book is a reprint, with some necessary modifications, of the articles which have appeared in [newspapers] since July 1935".
Wall was an expert on how New Zealand's British English language was evolving over time.
G+ softback stapled through spine.
lacks title page, and rear advertising page is glued down to rear free end paper.
Cover price is 2/-
$8 A/B
Reed ( 1920s?)137pp.
[#4947 ]
A history of censorship and changing mores in New Zealand.
From literature to pornography in print, film and music, and the growing challenge of objectionable material on the new medium of The Internet.
ISBN 9780864693051
1993 Films, videos and Publications Act, Offic of the Censor, video nasties, banned books, film classification
VG softback.
$25 B/C
Dunmore Press 1998 first edition, 220pp.
[#5495 ]
A nostalgic look at the 1930s from the pages of the Weekly News newspaper.
ISBN1869470184
nz, history, media, weeklies, photographs, journalism
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 D/D
Moa Publications Ltd 1990 reprint, 175pp.
[#4214 ]
A history of Thames, from the gold rush that turned Thames into a boom town, but mainly concerned with the regions horse racing activities.
ISBN0473004410
VG hardback in VG+ dust jacket
$35 B/C
Williams Publishers 1987, 294pp, map endpapers.[#2894 new zealand, history, Thames ]
The story of Brierly Investments Limited, BIL, from its beginnings in 1961 and detailing the management problems of later years, including takeover bids and the appointment of Chairman Selwyn Cushing. The intriguing story of an iconic New Zealand business, during the dynamic the period from the 1960-90s
ISBN9781869534363
stock market, share market, ron brierley, quek leng chan, roger douglas, gearing, finance
VG+ softback
$30 C/C
David Bateman Ltd 1999, 216pp.
[#3897 ]
History of the colonial settlement of Rangitikei from a surveyors journals.
Includes the story of the original Maori as well as the purchase and colonization of land between the Turakina and Oroua Rivers.
Facsimile of the 1914 Whitcombe and Tombs edition.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket under removable plastic sleeve.
Jacket is sun faded to the spine.
$40 C/C
Capper Press 1976, 260pp + index, 2 folding maps in pocket at rear of book.
[#4890 ]
Very scarce early index, great to see what your town was like in 1904!
Gives population, amenities, condition of roads etc.
G+ hardback with no dust jacket, joints and spine ends rubbed, a little stain along the botttom of the upper joint, spine faded, corners just starting to fray, original printed endpapers tidy and hinges tight.
$250 C/C
H. Wise and Co 1904, red cloth with black titling to cover and spine, 374pp [#2341 ]
The author believes he has found archaeological evidence of Phoenician exploration or settlement of ancient Pre-Maori New Zealand.
ISBN047307303X ISBN13 9780473073039
VG softback, tidy but has former owner rubber stamp to 3 pages at the front with some offsetting to the facing pages.
$35 B/B
Discovery Press 2001, 134pp illustrated. [#2737]
VG softback
$10 C/A
Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum 1970,12pp with illustrations. [#2394 ]
High Country mustering, shearing, farming based poetry, verse and ballads.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket, with small pen name to fep
$30 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1967 reprint, prelims + 202pp +plates.
[#1920 ]
VG- hardback with sunned spine. No jacket.
$15 C/C
Whitcombe and Tombs 1967 reprint, prelims + 202pp +plates.
[#3826 ]
The history of New Zealand schools and schooling from the earliest colonial times. Includes an appendix of milestones in regional schools. Illustrated.
ISBN0589009702
VG softback
$15 B/B
Reed 1976, 88 pp.
[#3063 ]
First translated thus, 'An English rendering of the journals of Dumont d'Urville and his officers of their visit to New Zealand in 1840, together with some account of Bishop Pompallier and Charles, Baron de Thierry'.
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket with light handling soiling and a few short edge tears
$45 B/C
Reed 1955 first edition, xii 180pp + plates. [#2923 new zealand history, french in new zealand ]
A centennial history of Waikato Hospital 1887-1987, illustrated in the text with black and white photographs.
ISBN 0473004577
keywords
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$30 C/D
Waikato Hospital Board 1987 first edition, large 4to, vi 125pp
[#4833 ]