Search Results: Authors starting with W from Tinakori Books

Wellington: Tararua Tramping Club, 1955. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 88 pages, many b/w illustrations, advertising. Yearly magazine of the Tararua Tramping Club. Slight wear to spine..

London: Longmans, Green, 1888. Book. Good. Original Pictorial Cloth. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 352 pages, frontispiece, nine other b/w plates, many wood engravings in the text, four maps printed in black and blue. A wonderful book on rowing and sculling in England. Has lists of results of University rowing and other regattas including results of the Oxford Cambridge race starting from 1829..

Adelaide: Department of Mines, 1915. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 54 pages, b/w photos, folding coloured maps and drawings. Geological Survey of South Australia. Bulletin No. 4. Contents: detailed geology of areas examined, Eyre's Peninsula, Kangaroo island, Yorke peninsula, Murray Area, Mundoo island, the evidences of petroleum supplies, notes on the asphaltum (bitumen) and substances supposed to be bituminous, asphaltum, paraffin wax, coorongite, foetid limestone, kerosene shale, other substances, some erroneous ideas..

New York: Arno Press, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 553 pages, illustrations, map. Clean uncirculated ex-library books. .

Christchurch: New Zealand Cartoonists Collective, 2001. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A cartoon history of Maori in New Zealand and European immigrants to New Zealand. 78 pages drawn by 78 different New Zealand cartoonists. .

Wellington: Government Printer, 1909. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Records of the Canterbury Museum. Vol. I No. 2. and Vol. I No. 3. p. 45-156, 23 b/w plates and one coloured folding mapp. 157-312, 35 b/w plates. The first volume is very nice copy, the second volume has some wear on the covers. Hard to find as a complete set. The expedition was undertaken by the New Zealand government in the interest of the fishing industry. The object of this publication was to record the scientific examination of all specimens preserved. The results formed the basis of large scale commercial fishing in New Zealand waters..

Otago Centennial Historical Publications, 1948. Book. Very Good. Red Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 199 pages, b/w photos, maps. Old name on front endpaper, dust jacket worn on edges and lacking pieces.

London: Richard Bentley, 1833. Book. Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 331; iv, 341 pages. Spine of vol. I is split o one side, title label on spine of vol. I is missing, a few old and neat annotations on the margins. Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796 - 1862) is considered a key figure in the establishment of the colonies of South Australia and New Zealand (where he later served as an member of parliament). He also had significant interests in British North America, being involved in the drafting of Lord Durham's Report and being a member of the Parliament of the Province of Canada for a short time. He was best known for his colonisation scheme, sometimes referred to as the Wakefield scheme, which aimed to populate the new colony South Australia with a workable combination of labourers, tradespeople, artisans and capital. The scheme was to be financed by the sale of land to the capitalists who would thereby support the other classes of emigrants.… Read More

1967. Book. Good. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. Oblong. First published by A. D. Willis, Wanganui 1889. This facsimile edition published in 1967, in a limited numbered run of 1000 copies. This number 207. 13 full page colour plates, 1 b/w plate, 1 double page coloured plate, illustrated front cover. Covers slightly soiled. The plates show Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Nelson, Greymouth, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Oamaru, Dunedin, Pink and White Terraces Rotomahana, eruption of Mount Tarawera 1886 and the Waitomo Caves.

London: George Harrap Book. Good. Full-Leather. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 241 pages. This edition is not dated, the limp leather covers have an art nouveau design which dates this edition to around 1900. Small stain on front cover, s light foxing on first and last pages. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche considered him "the most gifted of the Americans", and Walt Whitman referred to him as his "master"..

Book. Very Good. Blue Cloth. Facsimile Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 110 pages. A privately produced facsimile reprint from the copy in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

Hollywood: House-Warven Publishers, 1953. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 112 pages, dust wrapper in plastic cover..

London: Witherby, 1936. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 167 pages, frontispiece and 16 b/w illustrations, one map. 5 illustrations bound in the wrong place but all present. Ex-library copy, library binding, black tape on spine. Scarce book on Fijian islands..

Otaki: Te Wananga of Raukawa, 2011. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. vii, 91 pages, ex-library, very clean. Printed in Maori and English..

Te Whare Taonga o Waikato - Waikato Museum of Art and History, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 63 pages, b/w and colour plates..

Mona Vale, NSW: D. Wall, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 152 pages, maps, b/w photos..

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 306 pages, coloured frontispiece, coloured plates and text illustrations, neat gift inscription on front endpaper. A tidy copy.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1935. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 54 pages, coloured frontispiece, 16 b/w plates and text illustrations, lacks front flyleaf, wear at the bottom of the spine..

London: Macmillan, 1902. Book. Very Good. Green Cloth. Third Edition, Revised. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xx, 563 pages, frontispiece, maps and illustrations, lacks front fly leaf otherwise a nice copy. .

London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin Book. Good. Decorative Cloth. Second Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. viii, 163 pages, 20 plates. Three small holes on spine, some wear at top and bottom of spine, gutters internally reinforced with Japanese paper. Illustrations by J.C. Horsley, E.M. Ward, W.F. Yeames, Fred Barnard, Robert Barnes, Hablot K Browne, George du Maurier, John Faed, S.L Fildes, Sir John Gilbert, R A., Charles Green, Edward Hughesm F. Wilfrid Lawson, R. Macbeth, William Small, Marcus Stone, W. Cave Thomas, Edward Wagner, James d. Watson..