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: Hakluyt, 1865. Book. Good. Blue Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxix, 88 pages, large folding hand-coloured map. Blind stamp of Reform Club on title page. Cloth on spine split at the top then across, temporarily fixed by tape. Early expeditions in the area of Darien and Panama. The map shows tracks of early early Spanish explorers in the area..

London: Parker Book. Fair. Blue Cloth. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. vi, 336, 8 pages. Lacks all pages up to contents page, including the title page. Amateur repair to spine, worn on corners. Contains descriptions of 38 shipwrecks and a list of the shipwrecks of the Royal Navy between 1793 and 1850. Content complete. Useful reading copy..

Bristol: Mercury Office, 1831. Book. Very Good. Wrappers. Fourth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 40 pages. In protective plastic cover. We also have the Full Report of the Trials of the Bristol Rioters in stock..

London: Hakluyt, 1859. Book. Good. Blue Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 4, vi, xcix, 48 pages, 4 colour and 8 b/w plates (some folding. 2 blindstamps of Reform Club, lacks 3mm at top of spine, one inch tear at bottom of spine then across..

London:: Law and Whittaker, 1818. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good +. Third Edition. 8vo. vii, 6, 180 pages, frontispiece and 14 etchings on 10 plates. Lacks one etching (supplied as a photocopy). The plate of Juan Fernandez is printed in rust brown. The binding appears to be of a later date, papered card covers and a red leather spine with title in gilt. Some foxing but otherwise very good. 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: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman,, 1832. Book. Illus. by Earle, Augustus. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 16, x, 371 pages, frontispiece, 6 other plates (all present). Book is in the original grey card binding with a paper label on the spine, 4cm of the paper covering at the bottom of the spine missing. Old name Mariott on front cover and front endpaper. This copy has 16 pages advertising from the publisher dated May 1832 at the beginning of the book. Plates and text pages are clean. 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… Read More

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

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..

London: Saunders, Otley, 1861. Book. Good. Green Cloth. First English Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Volumes I and II of the 3 volume set. l, 485 pages; ix, 627 pages. 52 illustrations in volume I, 8 illustrations in volume II. Volume I also has a plate showing a vertical section of the Novara, a large folding, coloured frontispiece map and several other coloured maps. Tear at top of spine volume I, rear hinge of volume 2 is broken, also 5cm tear at top of spine and chipping at bottom of spine. Please inquire if you want to buy only one of these volumes.