Search Results: NEW ZEALAND from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Dunedin: Bishop's Court, 1876. Very good condition. A four page letter from the Anglican Bishop addressed to a "Dear Miss Yonge", possibly Charlotte Mary Yonge, the noted Victorian novelist, concerning a task the Bishop has asked her to undertake. The work he has requested seems to involve Bishop Palleson (who died in 1871), as Bishop Nevill refers to the possibility that "some ladies with whom dear Bp Palleson was acquainted to take up this work". If this help should not materialize, the Bishop mentions the possibility of traveling to England himself for an upcoming general meeting of Bishops. Nevill closes on a note of warning against exposing children to a Catholic education: "It is somewhat hard to see so large a number of our people incurring all the risk of sending their children to be taught at the schools of the Romish". He warns of a parent recently requesting aid in helping a daughter "who had adopted Romish error thro' love for her Romish teachers." During this time period Anglican… Read More

1887. Very good overall. A manuscript letter along with an unrecorded handbill of Henry C. Dane. Major Henry Dane was a Civil War veteran who made his way to Australia and New Zealand in 1887 as a lecturer. He began as a wheelwright, then enlisted at age 29 in Cambridge, 4 Oct., 1862, and mustered in as 1st Lieutenant. He received a commission as Captain of Co. "F", Third Massachusetts Calvary Regiment. He was promoted to Brevet Major 13 March, 1865. He resigned his post 15 May, 1865, and became an attorney at law practicing in the District of Columbia. In 1873 he is listed as a partner of Dane & Baker in Boston, MA. In 1880-81 he traveled to Chicago lecturing. He became a resident of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1875 and reviews of his lectures appear in Sydney Morning Herald and National Library Newspaper in 1887,1888, 1891. His letter speaks fondly of his friend Henry Allison of Fitchburg, MA and describes the beautiful trees, ferns, flowers, bays of both NZ and Australia, and is… Read More

Perth, Scotland: R. Morison & Son, 1789. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Full title: An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern hemisphere successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow,and the Endeavour drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commander, and from the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks. Two volumes of a four volume set. However these are the volumes that deal with the New Zealand and Australia section of the voyage. Vol 3. (ii),iii, 241pp, 4 copper engraved plates Vol 4. iv, 245pp 2 copper plates including the fold out plate of the Endeavour beached at Endeavour River. Full tree calf leather binding gold title on red title piece on spine . Little rubbed top and bottom of spine. Bright clean copy.

London: Constable, 1930. First UK edition. 8vo, (viii) 162pp. Orig. brown buckram, plain dj dusty wi/ a couple of small chips at edges o/w vgc. Limited to 750 copies. Bookplate of Maxwell Steinhardt. Unusual in dust jacket.

New York: Howard Lockwood, 1879. Very good condition. A pamphlet with 2 pages from the Australian press; others quoted are New Zealand, Hong Kong and India press reactions to American enterprise. Newspapers named include: Daily Press, Hong Kong, China; Bacchus March Express, Victoria ("[The American Mail & Export Journal] contains descriptions and illustrations of many novelties which the Americans are always producing, but which cannot be got in these colonies ....") p11; The New Zealand Press News, Dunedin; Deccan Herald, Poona, India ("Our English merchants had better look sharp, otherwise they will find the foreign market contested with them by American merchants") p19; Benalla South Australia Standard; and The Week, Brisbane, Queensland. Pamphlet also includes table showing export values 1876-1878 for raw materials as compared to manufactured goods; and a section of advertising for the American Mail & Export Journal. Small 8vo, 62pp, original pale pink printed wrappers pictorially stamped with… Read More

New Zealand, 1938. Very good condition. Handwritten letter offering travel advice to an American for a New Zealand visit, and naming & describing the "spots keenest to see" and a recommendation to hear a Maori concert, complete with the name and address of the chauffeur in Auckland! With a program titled 'Guide Rangi's Arawa Maori Entertainers', with a printed photographic picture of the group on the front wrapper, and Rotorua advertisements. Also a pictorial envelope advertising Iles' Kodak Store in Rotorua, illustrated with printed image of Maori warrior. The letter 4pp, 8 3/4 x 6 3/4". The program 8vo, 8pp, printed on blue paper. The envelope, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4", not used.

New York: Taintor Brothers & Co, 1874. Hardcover. Important and scarce post Civil War atlas of the US, during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, the map of North America showing "United States Alaska Territory" (purchased in 1867) and the transcontinental railroad (completed in 1869). With Plate XXXII showing Texas with all the settled counties, and Indian Territory just to the north, Arizona and New Mexico to the west. Plate XXXIV with all the western states shown, from Dakota west to Washington and down to Nevada. Wyoming is shown with the newly formed Yellowstone National Park (established by Congress and signed into law by US Grant in 1872) within a ruled rectangular border and the transcontinental railroad and Bozeman Pass to the north of the Park. Also shows Colorado prior to its 1876 admission as the 38th state. Double page map of Florida with an inset of the Florida keys, indicating the southern portion of the mainland as Indian Hunting Ground. Incredible network of waterways are also… Read More

Paris, 1833. First edition. Black & white lithograph view of three maoris on hill overlooking a village and bay in distance. (Bay of Islands) 39.5 x 22 cms. Printed on grey tissue and applied to laid paper with wide margins and official blind tooled stamp below the title. Some light markings in margin o/w very good condition. Plate 55 from the official report of the voyage. "Voyage de la Corvette L'Astrolabe..." Under the comand of Jules Dumont D'Urville. New Zealand was a particular focus of the French expedition with 2 of the 5 volumes of the report dedicated to the discoveries there. It seems that this expedition was closely examining New Zealand as a possible French settlement by charting the coast as much as they did, a counter to Cook's surveys that made the British claim so strong.

London: Edward Stanford, 1906. Map of a South Polar projection including Scott's Discovery expedition 1901; Scotia 1902-04; Gauss expedition 1902; de Gerlache Belgica expedition 1898-99 ; Challenger 1873-76; Valdivia German expedition 1898-99; Bull Norwegian "Antarctic" expedition 1902. Quite interesting mapping of the "Northerly limits of icebergs recorded (with southerly winds) during 189-97 by H. C. Russell" along with the "Approximate limit of the pack ice during the Austral summer months". Below the map - London: Edward Stanford, 12, 13, & 14, Long Acre. W.C."/ "Stanford's Geographical Establishment. London."/ "London atlas series. 20106."/ Shows routes of exploration through 1904. Scale 1:22,429,440 ... See OCLC: 965501116 for a slightly later version, showing exploration through 1909. Chromolithograph map 24 x 20" with margins, slt. printer's crease, overall very good condition.

Paris: Gide, 1841. First edition. Exquisite image of the kiwi from Dumont D'Urville's "Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie sur les corvettes ‘l'Astrolabe et la Zelee... 1837-1840". Painted by Werner, after Lebreton, Dirige par Barromee. Grave par Giraud. Gide Editeur. Impie. de Bougeard. Copper and stipple engraving of a brown kiwi with two detail sketches of a feather, 11 x 16 1/4, to plate marks. Paper 14 x 21 1/2". Blind stamp of the publisher, Gide. Very slightly tanned overall 3/4" closed tear in bottom margin, in very good condition. A superb image of New Zealand's national bird.

London: Zoological Society, 1865. Very good condition. Attractive lithograph of the Kiwi, with original hand color. The artist H.C. Richter also worked with John Gould on various bird books, and there is a "Gould" feel to the New Zealand view, with surrounding shrubbery, some water and a mountain in the distance. Published in the 1860's sometime. The New Zealand national bird. 10 x 8" with margins. Published in the Transactions of the Zoological Society Vol 3, Pl 57, p. 346. Trove 11133142.

Auckland, 1885. A large oblong albumen image of an early American importer of kerosene oil, which was not readily available at the time, to New Zealand. The image depicts 2 large buildings fronting a major street corner. The two story building at the left advertises kerosene oil on the front facade, and the one story warehouse building at the right, which encompasses the entire corner, advertises kauri gum. Three horse drawn carts laden with large boxes are waiting in the street. A further shop sign, Robt. Furness & Co is visible in the distance. Arnold, Cheney and Co was the agent for New Zealand of the Colonial Oil Co, formed in New York to supply New Zealand and Australian markets with oil. John Robert Hanna was born ca 1850 in Ireland and sailed on the clipper ship 'Ganges' arriving in Auckland in 1865. Hanna was first employed by Bartlett's studio, followed by Hemus and Hanna (until 1885); at this time he purchased, renovated and renamed Clarke Bros. studio. This is how the image is dated ca.… Read More

London: C. Buckton and sold by P. Elmsly, 1788. ARGUABLY ONE OF THE RAREST PUBLICATIONS ON COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE. This is the first scientific publication relating to Captain Cook's first voyage on HMS Endeavour (1768-1771) to the Pacific. Officially it was to observe the transit of Venus in the South Pacific but secretly it was to search for the mythical Southern Continent. In the process Cook became the first European to set foot on New Zealand and the east coast of New Holland or Australia. Of all the works associated with the First Voyage, this is one of the rarest. Only two examples of this work are recorded at auction on Rare Book Hub since 1985. It was not in the Parks collection, arguably one of the finest in living memory on the works of Cook. It was also not in the libraries of Davidson or Parson's. It includes two large charts representing the east coast of Australia and New Zealand, much improved from those published in John Hawkesworth's official account of the first voyage. William… Read More

London, 1916. Hardcover. Very good. 4to, 99pp, f & 28pp ills. Dec. white cloth, vgc.

Wonderful photograph album of Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania, with large photographs and manuscript titles. A total of 47 photos, with 33 of Victoria, 6 of New South Wales, 5 of Tasmania, 1 of New Zealand, and 2 others. Each photograph is lightly tipped on to the album paper, with blank verso. Most of the photographs are by an unknown photographer; there are also some signed by J.W. Beattie, Thomas Foster Chuck, Frank Arnold Coxhead, C. Rudd, and J.P., possibly John Paine. One of the most striking & largest photograph is of "Aboriginals of Lake Tyers". It is an outdoor view of a family group of aborigines, from children to grand parents, dressed in western clothing, with spear, boomerangs and lean-to behind them. Others include some rather poetic views of woodcutters at Black Spur & Fernshaw; a couple of gold mining at Bendigo including Garden Gully United Gold Mining Company, with houses in fore and background. There is a series of some very striking studies of Melbourne buildings including… Read More

London: Longmans & Green, 1894. Third edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. The author travelled for 13 years in the New South Wales interior where he records the social condition of the settlers versus the aborigines, and is outraged by the retaliation against the aborigines. Sm. 8vo, (xi) 257pp. Secondary plain cloth binding title & spine, lt. discol. of spine o/w g+ cond. F12831.

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1943. Hardcover. Very good. A very scarce National Geographic title. 304 pp, ills throughout, some color. Blue printed stiff board wrappers, gilt title, sml. 4to, slt. marked & sunned, sml. split top of spine o/w vgc.

Wellington: C. M. Banks Ltd, 1959. Very good condition. Color printed road map of the South Island of New Zealand, offset by C. M. Banks. Ltd. Wellington. Printed in color with bright green for the oceans, with a table of South Island mileages. Roads include national state highways, provincial state highways, main roads, tracks, and railways. With a compass rose. Front panel with green tinted photograph "Mitre Peak Milford", and title of map printed in black and green; advertising text at verso: "You can buy a bigger car" with advertisement for NIMU insurance. 2 horizontal and 3 vertical original folds. Wonderfully bright color, very clean. Opened measures 25 1/2 x 38 1/2". Not located at the National Lib of New Zealand.

Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Sons, 1935. Full color map, Reduced Survey map of New Zealand Coloured to Show Height of Land, Scale 1: 2,000,000. 22 1/4 x 31 1/2" . With insets of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Very sml slits at center of folds, o/w very good. Blue printed paper wrapper in red & black, back cover of map features ads for Bartholomew's World Atlases.

New Zealand: N. Z. Graphic Series, 1904. First printing. Ephemera. Very good condition. An early postcard satirically commemorating the Championship rugby match of 1904 between The Lions (Britain) and New Zealand. New Zealand won 9 to 3. The text goes "In the Rugby Foot=ball Match, played at Wellington on August 13th, between Britain and New Zealand, the Colony defeated the hitherto invincible Home Country team by 9 points to 3." A fullback postcard, stamped and franked in Auckland in 1904 to a young lady in Melbourne. At the base, the sender wrote "I think N.Z. people are even more one eyed that the Lion", referring to the bedraggled lion, who is wearing an eye patch. The 1904 tour was principally played in Australia, where the British Lions won all of 14 matches played, including 2 tests. In New Zealand, 5 matches were played, New Zealand won 3 of the 5, including the test match, which this postcard memorializes. Some minor dusting, o/w very good condition.