Rare & Collectible (Pre 1950)

1929. 1st edition. INSCRIBED BY JOYCE WIFE. A primary account of the Ross Sea shore party of Shackleton's Endurance Expedition 1914-1917. SCARCE WORLDWIDE.

1951. Takes the complete text of Neville Coghill's long-established translation and illustrates it from a wealth of medieval illuminations, manuscripts and woodcuts.

1900. 1st edition. Romance fiction from early 1900s.

1954. A novel about a French Cardinal, with appendix on relics of paganism in christianity as approved by English Bishops.

1896 (124yo). 1st edition. Marie Corelli (1 May 1855 - 21 April 1924) was a British novelist.

1893 (127yo). 1st edition. Marie Corelli was one of the most popular novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.

1908 (112yo). 1st edition. Marie Corelli (1 May 1855 - 21 April 1924) was a British novelist.

1925. Collects all of the author's shorter-than-novel-length stories (56 in total) from 1900 to 1923, linking them in pairs.

1907. (115yo) 1st edition.

1907 (112 years old). A collection of Fiction stories.

1888 (133yo). 1st edition.

circa 1880 (120yo). Strictly True Stories, Words of Grance and True.

1890. (129 years old) Thackeray's Works 2 from. His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy.

1879 (142 yo). Five Lenten Lectures delivered at St. Andrew's Holborn March and April 1878.

1899 (121yo). 1st edition.

1912 (107 years old). Two lectures, Of Kings’ Treasuries and Of Queens' Gardens delivered in December 1864.

1910. Antiquarian book including fold out map of Florence.

1945. Scarce.

1899. Beautiful antique book on Edinburgh with 500 monochrome illustrations and two double-page maps

1884 (137yo). Complimentary notes and addresses from the City of London, from the close of the reign of George II, A.D. 1757 to 1884.

1864. (157yo). Rare and collectable book on music.

1900. (120yo).

1922. A Day With Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

1853. (166 years old).

1889 (132yo). Antiquarian book on New Zealand Gardening.

1898. (121 years old) The Waverley Novels.

1930. 1st edition. Vintage story book.

1910 (111 yo). 1st edition. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

1880 (143 yo). Antiquarian encyclopaedia from late 1880s.

1907 (115yo). Frances Burney (1752-1840), daughter of English musician Charles Burney.

1927. The most famous book from a renowned New Zealand journalist, broadcaster and author.

1801. (220yo). Antiquarian book on elocution

Published 1927

Published 1923

1902 (110yo). R. Talbot Kelly was an English orientalist landscape and genre painter, author and illustrator.

1879 (143 yo). William Makepeace Thackeray is best known for his satirical works looking at English society.

1922. (100yo)

1811 (209yo). Rare and collectable. Text is in french.

1891 (130yo) 1st edition. The wonderful life-story of George Bidwell.