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Waikare-Moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters: the Lake; the Land; the Legends with a Tramp through Tuhoe Land
by Best, Elsdon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Wellington: John Mackay, Government Printer. Good with no dust jacket. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Text block detached from covers. Later boards with original paper wrappers laid down on boards. Some pencil marginalia and underlining. Frontispiece and folding map in very good condition.; viii, 66 pages + colour frontispiece map + 11 plates + folding map at rear. Pages (iii) - iv follow page viii, as described in Bagnall. Later boards with original paper wrappers laid down on boards. Cloth spine. Page dimensions: 217 x 138mm. [Reference: Bagnall B757] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25312
- Title
- Waikare-Moana, the Sea of the Rippling Waters: the Lake; the Land; the Legends with a Tramp through Tuhoe Land
- Author
- Best, Elsdon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Mackay, Government Printer
- Place of Publication
- Wellington
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- New Zealand Maori Regional History Waikare-moana
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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