Search Results: Titles starting with N from Tinakori Books

Wellington: New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association, 1960. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 48 pages, several b/w photos. There ia an image of the Edwin Fox on the rear cover..

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Offprint form Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences. Volume 28, No. 4, pp. 81-90, 5 text figures. 2 institutional stamps..

Wellington: FitzBeck Creative, 2012. Book. Illus. by Jess Lunnon; Sandi Mackechnie. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 141 pages, illustrated. Spine faded..

Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1980. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 49 pages, b/w photos. Small name on title page.

Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. [12], 598 pages. Very clean ex-reference library book witjh few markings. .

Leiden: Pieter Van Der Aa, 1707. Book. Good. Vellum. First Dutch Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Naaukeurige Versameling der Gedenk-waardigste Zee en Land-reysen, na Oost en West-Indien, Mitsgaders andere Gewesten, ter eerster Ontdekking enn soo vervolgens van Verscheyde Volkeren, meerendels door Vorsten, op Maatschappyen Derwaarts gefonden, gedaan, Zedert het Jaar 1601 to 1605. Waar van eenige noyt gedrukt, andere nu eerst uyt haar Oorspronkelijke Taalen overgeset, en sommige merkelijk verbeterd zijn; Zijnde een waaragtige en bondage Beschrijving van veele vreemde Koningrijken, Landschapen en steeden, der selver Benamingen, Gelegentheden, Sterktens, Stroomen, Zee-Havens, Goud - en Silver - Mijnen, Peerl - Visseryen, en menigvuldige Wonderen; Benevens de Oorlog-daden en Gedenk-waardige Bedrijven der Ontdekkers, in het op-doen deser Landen vorgevallen; voorts hunne gevaarlijke en seldsame Outmortingen, merk-waardige Geschiedenissen, grouwsame Verwoestingen, vorrname… Read More

Manila: Bureau of Publich Printing, 1905. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pages 89-199, one map, many b/w plates. Lacks front cover. Reprinted from the Department of the Interior, Ethnological Survey Publications Volume II, Parts II and III. Philipine Islands..

1984. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 101 pages, b/w plats, maps, diagrams. Text is in Japanese with a 2 page precis in English..

London: Blackie & Son Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Unpaginated. Coloured frontispiece, 15 colour plates and many b/w illustrations. Wear on corners, otherwise very good. Old school prize label dated 1928 on front endpaper. The illustrations are by Honor C. Appleton and others..

Wellington: Victoria University, 1975. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. v, [5], 197 pages, maps, tables, diagrams. Ex-General Assembly Library Wellington New Zealand..

London: Methuen, 1925. Book. Good. Blue Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 227 pages, frontispiece. Ex-library copy, lacks front fly-leaf with half the endpaper map and one plate. Binding split on one side of spine..

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman,, 1832. Book. Illus. by Earle, Augustus. Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. x, 371 pages, frontispiece, 6 other plates (all present). Book is rebound in half leather cloth boards and marbled endpapers. This binding could be from the 19th century or early 20th century, old name "B. Gudgeon" on preliminary leaf. One of the plates has the bottom corner missing, ca. 1cm). Plates a little foxed. Augustus Earle (1793 - 1838) was a London-born travel artist. In 1824 he was forced to stay on the island of Tristan d'Acunha when the ship he was traveling on suddenly left while he was ashore. In 1827 - 1828 he spent several months in New Zealand where he met the Nga Puhi chief Hongi Hika. He also recorded travels through the northern parts of the North Island, meetings with Maori and missionaries. The plates show Maori dancing the war dance, the Haka, the New Zealand method of tattooing and other… Read More

London: James Black and Son, 1817. Book. Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xix, 431; xii, 398 pages; frontispiece in each volume, map, chart, 2 one folding plate with coastal views, one other plate. Rebacked retaining most of the old and worn spines, new endpapers, 4 old institutional stamps. John Nicholas, a New South Wales settler, accompanied Marsden on his historic mission to the Bay of Islands in December 1814 to set up the first mission station in New Zealand. Nicholas was his close companion for the duration of their stay. His account of Maori culture is of the greatest value. Nicholas' narrative is a useful parallel to the record kept by Samuel Marsden..

London: Henry Colburn, 1843. Book. Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2 volumes, xxxviii, 387 pages, vi, 474 pages; 2 frontispieces, 2 maps (lacking one), 18 engraved plates, 20 vignettes. Contemporary half leather binding, raised bands, gilt spine title labels on green leather at top of spine, black lables with name of author and volume at bottom of spine (partially chipped off), leather split on one side of vol. 2 but binding still very firm, a few plates mildly foxed. Overall a solid and nice set of this account. Much on California, Alaska, Hawaiian islands, Marquesas, Tahiti, Dutch East Indies, etc..

London: Edward Moxon, 1840. Book. Good. Half-Leather. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 3 books published in one volume. Published between 1840 and 1846. Wear on papered boards, binding firm..

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. Book. Good. Half-Leather. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2 volumes: xxii, 472; iv, 452 pages. 23 plates, 3 maps. The frontispiece map in volume I is detached. Leather spine rubbed, marbled boards. "Beechey's book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, the Tuamotu Archipeligo, the Society Islands, the Mangareva (Gambier) Islands, and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macoa, Okinawa, and the coast of California. [and] provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest." (Hill). Hill 94;.

London: Law and Whittaker, 1818. Book. Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. vii, 6, 180 pages, frontispiece and 15 etchings on 11 plates, all present. The plate of Juan Fernandez is printed in rust brown. Later green cloth binding. Shillibeer's account is the second published account of the fate of the mutineers of the Bounty on Pitcairn Island. The first one appeared in Amasa Delano's Narrative of Voyages and Travels. The Briton visited Pitcairn Island in September 1814 and interviewed John Adams, the last surviving mutineer. Also contains very interesting accounts of the Marquesas, Galapagos and Juan Fernandez Islands..

London: Hakluyt, 1849. Book. Good. Blue Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xx, 259 plus post-scriptum page. Frontis. (fold. map), fold. chart, and one other map. cloth on spine split, spine head worn, small tear at inner margin of frontispiece, small numer 5 on spine, 2 blind stamps Reform Club. Hakluyt first series No. 5. Rare issue. Covers voyages to explore the North-west Passage by Hugh Willoughby, William Adams, Sebastian Cabot, Martin Frobisher, John Davis, Captain George Waymouth, Henry Hudson, John Knight, James Hall, Captain Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge, Luke Fox, Captain James..

London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Book. Good. Full-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first two volumes of the four volume set. Volume I - Proceedings of the First Expedition. 1826-1830 under command of Captain P. Parker King. xxviii, 2 l., 597pp; Vol. II. - Proceedings of the Second Expedition, 1831-1836 under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy. xiv, 1 l., 694p, addenda, 41 plates including 2 frontispieces, lacking the four loose folding maps (2 maps in each volume) and the "Chart of a part of South America" in volume I. Volume II is lacking the title page but has the half-title page. Browning mostly front portions of both books and plates, some old marginal damp stains, both books in full tree calf bindings, recased with new marbled endpapers, using original spine strips, lower half of Vol. II spine strip sympathetically replaced. Gilt monogram of General Assembly library on both volumes. Please enquire if you are interested in purchasing volumes separately..

Edinburgh: Fraser & Co., 1841. Book. Good. Brown Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. iii, 149 pp. Frontispiece portrait, two folding maps, the facsimile letter is missing, the map of Davis Strait, Cumberland Isle is a facsimile (not recent), the map of Hogarth's Sound is original. Original cloth lettered in gilt on cover, decorated in blind. First edition of this curious work. Eenoolooapik, an Inuk traveler and guide was born at Qimisuk, Cumberland Sound, c.1820; he died at Cumberland Sound 1847. He traveled to Britain in 1839 with whaling captain William Penny, who had hoped to establish a wintering base for whalers in Cumberland Sound. Penny's plan was rejected, but Eenoolooapik's friendliness and sense of humour endeared him to the British, who followed newspaper reports of his activities. In 1840, after helping Penny enter Cumberland Sound, he returned to his birthplace, where he married and lived as a hunter and trader. Not long after his death,… Read More