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A Ride Through the Disturbed Areas of New Zealand; Together with Some Account of the South Sea Islands Being Selections from the Journals and Letters of Lieut. Herbert Meade, RN

Meade, Herbert · 1871

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

John Murray New Zealand 1864-65. Meade was stationed on the Naval vessels Curacoa and Esk. Lieutenant Herbert meade was captured by Pai Mairre Maori at Tataroa, Waikato January 1865 but realeased. He died in England 1868 and his account was edited by his brother and published ...

The Life and Times of Sir Julius Von Haast : A New Zealand Pioneer Explorer

Von Haast, Heinrich F · 1948

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.55 | ¥12,771)

Self Published Detailed and thorough study with a forward by Gilbert Archie. Contents include Journeys with Hochstetter in Auckland and Nelson regions, geology of ancient Canterbury, people of Canterbury, exploration of rivers Rangitata and Ashburton, Southern Alps, West Coast...

Rambles on the Golden Coast of the South Island of New Zealand

Reid, J C (John Caldwell) · 1886

$115.00 (€104.34 | £87.05 | ¥18,358)

The Colonial Printing and Publishing Company Author was a West Coast goldminer, journalist & politician. Scarce item has had illustration plates removed. CONDITION Brown illustrated cloth bds with gilt titling and detail. Gilt to all edges, green decorated eps. Cloth has wear ...

The Territory

Ernstine, Hill · 1951

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,747)

Angus & Robertson Story of the first hundred years of white exploration, pioneering, and settlement in Australian tropic north. Cattle-droving over unknown wildernesses, tragic encounters with Aborigines, the efforts to establish settlements that were cut off from the world an...

Pathway of the Birds : The Voyaging Achievements of Maori and their Polynesian Ancestors

Crowe, Andrew · 2018

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,747)

David Bateman Large format softcover, 288 pages with over 400 illus. Unread only fault is short tear at top front spine of DJ. OVERSIZED S First Edition Near Fine Auckland, New Zealand As New 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Tears of Rangi : Experiments Across Worlds

Salmond, Anne · 2017

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Auckland University Press Early Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries l...

Typee; or, a Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Polynesian Life

Melville, Herman · 1847

$235.00 (€213.21 | £177.88 | ¥37,515)

John Murray 2nd British Edition, shows spelling of "Pomare" correctly on page 19. CONDITION Rebound in Tan Buckram cloth with title flag to spine and new liners (unworn) map frontis, Pp ivi 285. Copy is mostly bright and clean, with 2 stamps for the Nelson Istitute to half ti...

Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand

Fergusson, Dugald (Ferguson) · 1892

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

Swan Sonnenschein & Co Originally published in 1891 with the inclusion of "His Vissitudes of" prefixed to title in this 2nd cheaper edition with erratta in the Authors last name. with additional text. CONDITION Red bds with Black letteing and illustrated front, gilt spine titl...

Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge an Elizabethan Hero

Rowse, A L · 1937

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

Jonathan Cape Grenville (1542 - 1591), was lord of the manors in Cornwall and Devon, a soldier, sailor, colonizer, and explorer. He took part in the early English attempts to settle the New World, and also participated in the fight against the Spanish Armada. CONDITION Claret ...

From the Ocean to the Sky UNCORRECTED PROOF

Hillary, Edmund · 1978

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hodder & Stoughton 1977 jetboat expedition from the mouth of the Ganges River to its source. Uncorrected proof printed prior to layout being complete with no appendices or index, illus present though yet to be assigned eventual placement. Dated for release April 1979, assume t...

Arabian Sands

Thesiger, Wilfred · 1959

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,578)

E P Dutton & Co First American edition. His travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950 and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedu. CONDITION Blue papered bds with cloth spine, White and bright Gilt decoration and title (clean and unworn, bottom cnrs ...

Laplace in New Zealand, 1831

Cyrille Pierre Theodore; Dunmore, John; Sinclair, Keith Val; Laplace · 1998

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,470)

Heritage Press During the course of an expedition around the world in the corvette "Favorite", Captain Cyrille-Pierre-Theodore Laplace visited the Bay of Islands, where he and his officers carried out detailed scientific work. Their observations of the land and its native inha...

Omai, Pacific Envoy

McCormick, Eric H · 1977

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Auckland University Press SIGNED. Omai met Samuel Wallis in 1767 and Captain James Cook in 1769 in Tahiti.[1] In August 1773 he embarked from Huahine on the British ship HMS Adventure , commanded by Tobias Furneaux becoming the second Pacific Islander to visit Europe, after Ah...

The Arctic World Illustrated : its plants, animals and natural phenomena : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76

1876

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,569)

T Nelson & Son [1876 BL] Green bds with bright gilt titles and encised decoration, Gilt to all edges, wear to spine ends and tips, pp viii 339 with 143 nice engraved illus. Light scattered foxing mostly at ends and edges, previous owners book plate mostly removed at front past...

New Guinea Headhunt

Mytinger, Caroline · 1947

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

The Macmillan Company Author and artist in 1926 she traveled to the Solomon Islands and Papua-New Guinea with her friend. CONDITION Black bds, map to front ep, pp x 441 with wood block illus and photo plates. Copy is mostly bright with odd mark and slight foxing to ends. Has p...

Iceland; Its Volcanoes, Geyers and Glaciers

Forbes, Charles S · 1860

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

John Murray Purple cloth, gilt spine title and geyser decoration to front, pp x 335 with nice engravings and fold out map to rea. CONDITION Cloth worn to spine ends with splits at head, split to front hinge with old amateur repair using cloth, o'w copy motly bright, fold out m...

Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel and Exploration

Burton, Sir Richard; Penzer, N M (Ed) · 1924

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,578)

A M Philpot Includes Early Days in Sind; Guide-Book to Mecca; A Trip to Harar; Notes on Scalping; A Day Amongst the Fans; Notes on the Dahoman; Chapters from Travels; Notes on Rome; Spiritualism in Eastern Lands; and Giovanni Battista Belzoni. CONDITION Red verticle ribbed clo...

Far Away Up the Nile

Millais, John G · 1924

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Longmans, Green & Co John Millais (1865 -1931) was a British artist, naturalist, and travel writer. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time. He is noted for illustrations that are of a particularly exac...

Ridan the Devil: And Other Stories. Colonial Library

Becke, Louis · 1899

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

T Fisher Unwin George Lewis Becke (1848-1913) was an Australian short-story writer and novelist. In 1869, Becke travelled to San Francisco with his brother Vernon and was away for nineteen months. At 16 years of age, Becke was a stowaway on a ship bound for Samoa. In Apia he t...

Time Among the Maya : Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico

Wright, Ronald · 1989

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

The Bodley Head "Fascinating travel memoir and study of a civilisation, embracing history, anthropology and literature.Written with wit and wisdom." CONDITION is as new apart from small gift inscription to front pastedown mostly obscured by DJ flap, pp 451. tight and unread. O...