2001. 1st edition. Featuring photographs, drawings, and paintings, this volume offers a visual history of New Zealand home interiors through history.
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2005. Photographed by Manuel Bauer and published on the occasion of the Dalai Lama's 70th birthday, this work includes essays by photographer Matthieu Ricard.
1969. 1st edition. Peter Cape has set out to give a meaningful impression of what is happening throughout New Zealand in the arts.
2002. 1st edition. Art Through the Ages traces six centuries of painting from Renaissance art in the 15th century to modern art in the 20th century.
1980. History of advanced jet airliners from around the world.
1980. History of early airliners from the 1930s.
1980. History of civil helicopters from around the world.
1980. History of early piston airliners from around the world.
1980. History of early jet airliners from around the world.
1980. History of general aviation aircraft from around the world.
1980. History of airliners from around the world.
1980. History of military aircraft from around the world to 1980.
1980. History of early piston airliners from around the world.
1980. History of turboprop airliners from around the world.
1980. History of general aviation private aircraft from around the world up to 1980.
1970. A record of the 25 years of the Compagnie Maritime Belge since the end of World War II.
1938. 1st edition. Includes a book of the 'Bounty' and selections from William Bligh's writings by George Mackaness.
1984. A ride through the disturbed districts of New Zealand; together with some account of the South Sea Islands.
1953. At the height of the Second World War, A Seaman’s Pocketbook was issued to all ratings on board ships of the Royal Navy.
1915. A novel based on the authors experiences on ships.
1958. Written for the benefit of all men in all Branches of the Royal Navy and issued to each rating when he joins.
Undated. A practical guide to the 'Ashcroft' method of building, rowing, sailing and motor boats.
1961. Contains all the instructions relative to visual and sound signalling of the International Code of Signals.
1955. Author has an ear for the vernacular of the casual New Zealander, and writes loose, gritty stories of young people interacting with pioneers and Maori in outdoor settings including Northland,
1969. An independent view of the New Zealand pre-election scene in 1969.
1927. 1st edition. A New Zealander’s impression of his visit to England in 1926.
1909. An explanation of the stability, trim, construction, tonnage, and freeboard of ships, together with a fully worked out set of the usual ship calculations from drawings.
1947. 1st edition. An illuminating account of a young man's service as an extra man aboard a light vessel in the early months of World War II, guarding the world's most dangerous sandbank: the Goodwin
1941. The author's personal impressionistic sketch of New Zealand life in 1940.
1968. Vintage handbook for boating safety compiled by officers of the Marine Department, New Zealand.
1981. 1st edition. A publication for the exhibition that accompanied it in a series surveying New Zealand Painting.
1903. This is the intriguing story of how the electric telegraph cable was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland after multiple failed attempts.
1909. Stories of peace and war over sixty years in New Zealand.
Undated. A detailed record of the war service of the men and ships of the Shaw Savill and Albion Line Ltd.
1976. Originally published in 1883, the author’s record of his expedition from England to New Zealand with the aim of conquering Mount Cook in 1882.
1935. A record of square-rigged sailing ships still at sea, and of those lost since the Great War.
1928. 1st edition. Biography of Count von Luckner who had the unique reputation of disrupting Allied shipping without ever having taken a human life.
1957. 1st edition. Describes the sea's vengeance - a collection of true stories about hurricanes, floods, shipwrecks, storms at sea, disasters, strandings, ships in trouble in the Arctic and in the
1957. History of the Tai-Mo-Shan that was built in 1933 to take five Royal Navy officers on a voyage from Hong Kong.
1964. The Wanganui Collegiate School register from 1854 to 1963.
2004. A gripping and revealing first-hand account of one family's experience in the Exclusive Brethren community in New Zealand.
2003. 1st edition. A photographic celebration of 21 of New Zealand’s most interesting ‘homes away from home’, and a record of the diverse and often impressive landscapes that surrounds them.
2003. 1st edition. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has
1995. Explore the fascinating world of birds with this remarkable book, featuring stunning artwork from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum.
1986. 1st edition. A selection of verses, limericks, sketches and articles by Bryce Hart together with reminiscences by his contemporaries.
2014. 1st edition. Toys are fun—but they are also serious business in this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from Maori voyagers to 21st-century gamers.
2007. Richard Unger presents a groundbreaking method of self-discovery and offers a daily compass for meaning and fulfillment.
2008. Biography and an authoritative account of the novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin Stella Miles Franklin, author of My Brilliant Career and a great literary figure.
1973. The middle of the 19th century in France was a time when art and politics could not escape each other.
1976. D.M. Low, who until recently was Lecturer in Classics at King's College, London, is well known as the editor of Gibbon's Journal and for his distinguished biography of the historian.
1968. 1st edition. An original publication by the Folio Society, this work looks at what people were eating in different areas at different times.
2001. A guidebook providing a detailed description of the places where New Zealand troops fought on the Western Front in Belgium and France between 1916-1918.
1980. Writing in a clear and direct style, Norbert Lynton aims at helping the reader to form a relaxed and confident relationship with modern art.
1981. An autobiographical record of F.O. 'Pat' Brewster early days.
1983. 1st edition. Organic vegetable pest and disease control.
2014. A narrative regarding the role of residents of the French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, in helping to secure the lives of Jewish people during World War Two.
2006. A celebration of the achievements of women, this book honors 50 amazing women and the incredible impact they have had an our world.
2006. Courbet, who influenced and advised the fledgling Impressionists, was an outstanding representative of a naturalistic realism that highlights the contradictions and inequities in society.
2004. Leaving the self-indulgence of the Romantics far behind, the nobility of Delacroix' spirit will continue to speak to any and every age.
2005. The work of James Ensor, the great Belgian painter of macabre and ghoulish scenes, that would become a nationally revered figure.
2003. After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his métier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into pure
2006. A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day.
1970s. A pictorial history of the steam locomotives of the Glenbrook Vintage Railway.
1968. History of the Rangiatea church in Otaki, New Zealand, the oldest Maori Anglican church in New Zealand.
1962. 1st edition. A historical record of Papatoetoe published on the occasion of the Centennial of the District in 1962.
1980. 1st edition. Volume one covers the period of Sewell's public life when he and his wife Elizabeth were living in Canterbury, winding up the affairs of the Canterbury Association.
1968. 1st edition. Past President of Rotary International tells his life-story from early days as a boy in the far, far North of New Zealand to the present.
1988. This is the story of the history of Arahina, a National Training Centre for the New Zealand Girl Guides.
1978. A traveller's guide to the goldfields of historic Nelson & Marlborough.
1974. 1st edition. Robert Muldoon's autobiography published a year before he became prime minister of New Zealand in 1975.
1982. 1st edition. New Zealand's industrial archaeology - and the need to preserve that which is left.
1944. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.
1945. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.
1945. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.
1945. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.
1943. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.
1943. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.
1942. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.
1945. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.
1942. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.
1967. 1st edition. The stories and experiences of a railway enthusiast who spent hundreds of hours riding the rails throughout New Zealand during their glory days of steam and diesel.
1980. Vintage booklet on Franz Josef Glacier region in the South Island of New Zealand.
1955. The Mariners Library - No. 31. A wonderfully straightforward account of a seriously demanding passage to windward across the north Atlantic in Vertue XXXV, by a crew of only two men.
1986. 1st edition. The fourth autobiography of Robert Muldoon's years as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
1987. New Zealand railway history.
1958. History of the first 100 years of this region.
2001. 1st edition. A Guide book for those who wish to visit the graves of their forebears who lost their lives during various wars.
1890. (129 years old) Thackeray's Works 2 from. His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy.
Text in English and Te Reo
1977. 1st edition. A book about the history of Henderson and its residents from 1849 to 1939.
1973. 1st edition. Christina Macdonald records for the first time much of the medical lore which has until now only been passed down by word of mouth through generations of Maori people.
2000. Brigadier James Hargest was a decorated New Zealand officer who served during World War I and II.
1976. 1st edition. An account of the origins and some of the adventures (and misadventures) of the body of men that repair and service the electrical and mechanical equipment of the New Zealand Army.
1966. 1st edition. Power politics and ethnic conflict in the eastern Mediterranean.
1951. New Zealand official history in the Second World War.
1964. 1st edition. Realistic story of two survivors from an air crash in the Southern Alps, one blind, the other unable to walk unaided, who pool their resources.
1990. 1st edition. The author looks at the sea in its many moods and at the varied disasters and adventures that result.
1973. 1st edition. The book may well be unique as the first full history of an Army camp, and some things could come as a surprise to those who think they know the place.
1961. 1st edition. This book tells the story of the author's pursuit of establishing a shark-fishing business in the Seychelles.
1995. 1st edition. Maori soldiers signing up for the First World War representing a formidable fighting force - Te Hokowhitu a Tu, or the Seventy twice-told warriors of the war god, Tumatauenga.
1953. Biography of Chief Test Pilot and Wartime Fighter Pilot Neville Duke.
1939. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. The Desert Column is based on the diaries that he kept through out the war.
1985. 1st edition. The third book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'One of the greatest autobiographies written this century'.
1917. Volume 8 of The Great War - the standard history of the All-Europe Conflict in 1917.
1971. This blistering bestselling novel, based on documented fact, is the gripping story of the sex and money deals that exist in the backrooms behind the polished brass front of the military.
1937. An informative guide for yachtsmen in the care of their craft.
1979. 1st edition. A historical account of the Soviet assault on Berlin in 1945, the final battle of World War II in Europe.
1963. 1st edition. The dramatic story of the German battleship Tirplitz, sister ship to the ill-fated Bismarck, written by an ex-German naval officer.
1944. A day-to-day record of World War II from Hitler's attack on Poland to the allied invasion of Europe.
1945. 1st edition. An account of a prisoner-of-war camp during World War 2.
1944. In the early stages of WWII the Japanese method of jungle warfare had no military answer from the British or Americans.
2003. This is the untold story of the hundreds of New Zealand railwaymen--shunters, builders, engine drivers, firemen, engineers, who answered the call to construct and operate a railway network in
1980. A record not only of the fighting vehicles that served during the 2nd world war, but of the post-war Royal NZ Armoured Corps and its allied arms.
1979. Comprehensive album of artistic views of New Zealand as seen through the lens of a distinguished New Zealand photographer.
1946. A complete vintage guide to every branch of the carpentry trade for all those engaged in the crafts of carpentry and joinery.
1949. One of the outstanding regional histories in the series published by the Otago Centennial Historical Committee.
1971. A publication to mark the Centenary of the Auckland City Council 1871-1971.
1965. The very popular author's second book she writes the history of Mount Algidus station in the Canterbury high country in New Zealand.
1968. Vintage gardening book well illustrated with monochrome images and drawn illustration.
1957. Dispels a long-standing fallacy - that New Zealand hotels lack colour, tradition, and a tale that tingles.
1952. Second World War escape stories from all the arenas of the war.
1979. Vintage guide to nautical / maritime cruising around the Marlborough Sounds and Tasman Bay regions of New Zealand.
1956. This is the story of Frank Clune's holiday trip around the New Zealand Islands.
1991. 1st edition. One in a series of reference books of famous merchant fleets, past and present.
1978. A chronicle of Hato Petera College in Auckland's Northcote.
1973. A biography of the author, who through dogged persistence realised her two main ambitions - to become a nurse, and to travel to foreign places.
1975. Published for the 1875 to 1975 centennial celebration of Katikati in the Bay or Plenty.
1982. 1st edition. The centennial history of the Waihemo County Council 1882-1982.
1945. 1st edition. An account written as a result of an Auckland doctor’s travels in Italy during service with the 2nd N.Z.E.F.
Undated. Amateur publication chronicling the history of Kihikihi School (Waikato) from 1869-1938.
1997. Annual summary of all maritime accidents in New Zealand during 1995-1996.
1949. A collection of cartoons published in the The New Zealand Herald newspaper during 1948 and 1949.
1965. 1st edition. A vintage guide for choosing native plants for the New Zealand garden.
1962. 1st edition. The biography of Sir William Stephenson, the director of Britain’s secret intelligence organisation in America during the Second World War.
1971. A yearly publication by Fielding Agricultural High School.
1970. 1st edition. An illustrated account of nearly a century of country life in a remote and isolated Banks Peninsula bay inhabited and farmed by members of the Menzies family.
1969. 1st edition. A study of the Volcanic Plateau-Bay of Plenty region.
1987. Retro Wises illustrated travel guide to New Zealand and its attractions.
2005. One of Britain's leading authorities on historic architecture takes readers on a tour of mankind's greatest monuments.
2021. 1st edition. This major book tells the story of four expeditions made by staff of the Dominion Museum between 1919 and 1923.
2008. Two decades with NZ Geographic magazine have given Kennedy Warne the privilege of seeing New Zealand as few others have seen it.
1997. 1st edition. A study of the evolution of special forces from 19th-century imperialists to the SAS.
2010. These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. King's Lucille, Eric Clapton's Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughan's First Wife, Billy F Gibbons' Pearly Gates, Neil
2012. This book is a beautiful collection of Philips best-loved stories and photographs.
2010. 1st edition. Takes a fresh look at one of the most controversial events in our country's military history.
1999. Biography of Robert Laidlaw, founder of Farmers Trading Co. - an early 20th century version of Jeff Bezos with the "new" concept of catalogues and mail order purchase.
2007. 1st edition. There have been many books written on the SAS, most telling of individual events in the Regiment's history.
2006. 1st edition. Explains how to combine traditional styles and techniques with innovative design to create twenty-five custom-built motorcycles.
2013. A stunning, fully illustrated guide to the country and times that shaped our greatest short story writer.
2005. An erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy-–a chronicle combining historical inquiry & storytelling élan.
1975. A history of Ardmore Teachers College near Auckland, produced on the closing of the college in 1974.
1973. Limited edition. Comprehensive history of the the Banks Peninsula Cruising Club, based within Lyttleton Harbour near Christchurch.
1956. The author was an Australian bomber pilot who was shot down in a Lancaster over Hanover.
2014. Eighty of New Zealand's finest cooks, chefs and bakers let us into their homes and their hearts as they share their favourite recipes
1987. A vintage cookbook and collection of recipes by television cooking legend Alison Holst.
1951. 1st edition. An annual collection of poetry.
1966. 1st edition. This is a sensitive account of Ngaio Marsh's childhood and adolescence in Christchurch and the establishment of her theatre and writing careers both there and in the United Kingdom.
2002. Souvenir edition celebrating 50 years of service from the Silverdale Volunteer Fire Brigade between 1952 - 2002.
2008. 1st edition. Includes a short history of the VC recipients. - Corporal Willie Apiata V.C. was awarded the Commonwealth's highest military award for his actions with the NZ SAS in Afghanistan.
1949. The story of human endeavor that preceded, and followed upon, the discovery of gold in its mountains, rivers and river terraces.
1983. 1st edition. The biography of the New Zealand pilot who led a raid on Amsterdam Power Station in 1943.
1984. A directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Tokelau, Tonga and Western Samoa.
1986. A reference book providing information on New Zealand and Pacific Island books in print, publishers and distributors.
2015. 1st edition. An important work that gives voice to an unspoken chapter of New Zealand history.
1947. Vintage and very detailed reference book on native animals of New Zealand from sponges to molluscs to mammals.
1984. A vibrant, dramatic redefining of the creation myths of the Maori from a women's perspective.
1946. 1st edition. Written to introduce American readers to New Zealand including bibliography & index.
1955. 1st edition. An account of the founding and development of the city of Auckland and its suburbs from 1840, including a forecast of what the future held for the city.
1950. In October 1942, Vladimir Peniakoff, nicknamed Popski, formed his own elite fighting force in the North African desert.
1974. 1st edition. The kingdom was two historic Canterbury sheep runs, Grasmere Station and the adjoining Cora Lynn, over 60,000 acres of high country in the Waimakariri basin.
2006. 1st edition. SIGNED. This is Joy Ogier's third anthology - the final book in a trilogy.
1957. 1st edition. This book is a symposium of papers written by a number of the leading scientists in the Dominion today.
1968. 1st edition. The history of New Zealand/Australian publishers and booksellers AH & AW Reed, on their 60th anniversary.
2011. 1st edition. E Tu Ake tells the story of Maori and introduces the concepts that underpin the Maori world view.
1975. 1st edition. A fascinating book on local and international stage performers in New Zealand during early colonial times.
1971. 1st edition. The classic account of photography in New Zealand, includes essays on all the important early photographers.
1973. 1st edition. The never-before-revealed secrets of the explosion that shook the world.
1987. Vintage newspaper published by the New Zealand Railways.
1985. Vintage newspaper published by the New Zealand Railways.
1977. Vintage motor sport newspaper, published fortnightly.
1970s. Large A2 sized poster issued by New Zealand Post Office detailing the technology around early telephone communications.
1886. Facsimile copy of original newspaper, covering the Mount Tarawera eruption and surrounding areas with old illustrations and a map.
1969. Appears to be facsimile reprint comprising the first pages of four editions of the Christchurch Star covering the first moon landing.
1968. Vintage newspaper with coverage of the Inangahua earthquake.
2006. Revised edition of a vintage guide to the Northern Coromandel Peninsula.
1988. Pictorial history of the Blue Funnel Line started by Alfred & Philip Holt who named their ships after the heroes of the Trojan War.
1939 + 1941. Vintage mariners handbooks in a two volume set.