BARKER, LADY

BOOKPLATE OF ROBERT McNAB, octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & black rule to spine, black rule to boards, frontispiece, folding map to prelims, unpaginated prelims + 278pp, VG (light to moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges- minor surface loss, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to spine, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, ex-libris plates to eps & prelims, prev. owner's name & other ink scribbles to prelims, light tanning & foxing sporadically throughout, occasional crease & pencil annotation to margins and/or page corners)

PUBLISHER: William Hunt and Company 1873

KEYWORDS: New Zealand historical accounts history rural farming communities stations Lady Barker

ECCLES, ALFRED (Ed) & SKINNER, Dr H D (Fore)

LACKS D/W, octavo, brown buckram boards, black lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, frontispiece. 120pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, light foxing to frontispiece & photographic pages, light scuffing to top edges of rear eps)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1944

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago history historical accounts autobiography autobiographical Murray Gladstone Thomson pioneers

BARKER, LADY

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, black rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 238pp + catalogue to rear, G+ (light bruising to board extrems, v heavy cracking to front spine/hinge - heavily flapping but still tentatively attached, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to half title page, light to moderate foxing & cracking of gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1871

KEYWORDS: New Zealand rural life history historical accounts station stations farming agriculture Lady Barker anecdotes

BEATTIE, H

Octavo, blue stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 20pp, VG (minor tanning & creasing to cover edges, moderate rust staining to staples, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, sl foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: H Beattie 1912

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history place names European south southern Herries Beattie

SIMPSON, IAN (Ed) & ROBERTSON, VIVIENNE (Cover & Sketches)

Octavo, illus white light card covers, brown lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 256pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & tanning/soiling to spine & covers/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Waikoikoi District Centennial Committee

KEYWORDS: New Zealand south island history West Coast Waikoikoi

WALL, Professor ARNOLD

Super octavo, stapled illus light card covers, blue lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 55pp, illus/photos, VG (minor creasing & cracking/closed tearing to spine & cover edges, moderate chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, page block detached from staples but still pretty tidy)

PUBLISHER: The Lyttelton Times Company (Printer) 1925

KEYWORDS: New Zealand nature flora plants flowers botany Mount Mt Cook

MACKENZIE, Mrs PETER (MACKENZIE, ALICE)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 116pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges- yellowing tape repairs to base, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling, prev. bookseller's label to rear, heavy crease to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers 1947

KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history Martins Bay history Alice Mackenzie early settlers pioneers

McHUTCHESON, WILLIAM

LACKS MAP, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, blind stamp rule to spine & board edges, patterned eps, frontispiece, ix + 134pp, illus/photos, VG (minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate cracking to gutters, prev. bookseller's ink stamp to title page, light tanning & foxing/soiling throughout, map torn out & missing)

PUBLISHER: George Didsbury, Gov't Printer 1892

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Suthlerland Falls Fiordland landscape

McNEE, GEORGE

Quarto, green stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated prelims + 25pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & fading to spine & cover edges, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Murchison District Historical and Museum Society 1983

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history diaries journals George McNee Murchison

PARHAM, W T

Quarto, illus white light card covers, brown lettering to front cover, illus title page, unpaginated prelims + 24pp + illus/photos to rear, folding map to rear, VG (light creasing & moderate tanning & foxing to covers/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, photo pages tanned)

PUBLISHER: Whakatane & District Historical Society 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Lakes District Milford Sound Donald Sutherland biography biographies memoir pioneers

DE LA MARE, A J

Quarto, illus spiral bound covers, black lettering to front cover, illus/maps to prelims, unpaginated prelims + 121pp + index to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light cracking to top edge of front plastic cover, sl foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: A J de la Mare 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Lakes District Wakatipu history early settlers pioneers

MANNERING, G E (GEORGE EDWARD)

Oblong quarto, illus stapled light card covers, blue lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to cover edges & spine at staples, moderate wrinkling & tanning/foxing & soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to pages, light water staining to top corner of page block)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs (Printer) N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand exploration adventure Franz Josef glacier glaciers alpine

CHILTON, Chas (Ed)

2 VOL SET, FOLDING MAP TO REAR POCKET OF VOL 2, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, gilt penguin illus to front boards, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light rubbing & bruising to spines & board edges, minor chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate scuffing & creasing to ffep of vol 1 with 2cm closed tear to base also, moderate scuffing & surface loss to page edges of vol 1 from prev. adhesion- text block mostly unimpeded, prev. owner's name in ink to verso of ffep, occasional scuffing & surface damage/loss to some pgs of vol 2 from prev. adhesion, minor foxing only to folding map)

PUBLISHER: Philosophical Institute of Canterbury 1909

KEYWORDS: geology geography subantarctic islands exploration botany zoology reports history exploration New Zealand south southern

PILLANS, F S

Quarto, beige folder with metal clasps, handwritten black lettering to front cover, 72pp, VG+ (copied pages- expected black copy markings to page edges, page edges roughly cut, otherwise a reasonably tidy copy)

PUBLISHER: None Stated (1958?)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers F S Pillan diary journal Inch Clutha Southland

EATON, PEACHES

Quarto, blue stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 100pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing & tearing to cover edges & spine, light soiling & chafing, sm numerals in ink to rear cover, minor wrinkling throughout, moderate staining to base of page block)

PUBLISHER: Stanley G P Eaton 1976

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Nelson Creek gold mining prospecting goldmining

MOORE, L B & IRWIN, J B

SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, LACKS D/W, NUMBERED EDITION (#1/12) quarto, brown heavy boards, brown lettering to title plates on beige buckram spine & front board, xxii + 234pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing/soiling & fading to spine, light foxing/staining to page edges, minor foxing to prelims & index pages to rear, occasional sl foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1978

KEYWORDS: New Zealand plants nature botany sketches signed

SIMPSON, FRANK A

Octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, map illus to eps, frontispiece, 182pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep, sl foxing to prelims, Chatham Islands postage stamps affixed to verso of contents page) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling, sm adhesive residue to front cover, newspaper cutting o f author taped to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1950

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Chatham islands history isolated Pacific

SALINGER, LESLEIGH (Ed)

Octavo, teal buckram boards, black lettering & decoration to title plate on front board, 62pp, VG+ (sl soiling to boardssl foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges & folds, light fading to spine, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Nag's Head Press 1993

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history South Otago Clinton letters correspondence Scottish settlers John Gormack Mary McDonald

AYSON, WILLIAM DOUGLAS

Octavo, grey light card covers, black lettering to covers, 142pp + unpaginated supplement to rear, VG- (moderate creasing & tanning to spine & cover edges, moderate chipping & tearing to base of spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to title page, minor cracking & rusting to front & rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: Clan Ayson of NZ Society N/D (c.1950s)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history south island centenary centennial Glenshee Otago pioneers settlers

SHORTLAND, EDWARD

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, folding map verso of title page, xiv + 315pp, G+ (heavy water damage to spine & boards, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & water staining to eps, inscription in ink to ffep, binding sloppy with some segments loosened, moderate closed tearing to folding map)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 1851

KEYWORDS: New Zealand south island Southland districts history