1958. Thor Heyerdahl's research at Rano Raraku & Anakena on their many giant stone statues.
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1980. 1st edition. The history and aspirations of Smith and Caughey Limited on attaining its Centenary, and the family involvement in the company.
1986. A guide to the north-east coast of New Zealand and anchorages from the North Cape to East Cape.
1979. 1st edition. A season with The Whitbaiter of South Westland.
1963. 1st edition. One of the most amazing tales of shipwreck ever, as a Tongan cutter runs onto the dreaded Minerva Reef, and 17 men must fight for the chance of survival.
1950. First published in 1938, this book gives a complete picture of the establishment and early trials of the Katikati pioneers.
2002. 1st edition. Reveals the aviation-related events and enterprising efforts during the Republican period. Text in English and Turkish.
1990. Covers the mission of America's Air National Guard, and looks at the aircraft they use, from fighters to large cargo planes.
1986. The romance and breathtaking excitement of the legendary Imperial Airways Eastbound Empire service.
2007. 1st edition. Pictorial history of America's Civil Air Patrol, following the celebration of it's 65th year of service.
1989. An overview of the Marine Jastas of Germany that fought the RNAS/RFC/RAF, the French, and Belgian Air Services in World War One.
1974. 1st edition. Born of crisis just six days before Pearl Harbor, the Civil Air Patrol performed a host of "Minuteman" missions during WWII.
1979. Cambrian Airways was based in the United Kingdom which ran operations from Cardiff Airport and Liverpool Airport between 1935 and 1974.
1943. Pictorial history of the RNAF in Norway and Canada.
1993. Covers airfield vehicles, ordnance loading equipment, refueling equipment and a wide variety of apparatus used by the Luftwaffe.
1959 1st edition. Miles Smeeton and his wife Beryl sailed their 46-ft Bermuda ketch Tzu Hang, through the world’s most notorious waters.
1984. 1st edition. This story of an airport long gone and largely forgotten, more importantly, it is the story of a unique collection of individuals who created it and made it function.
1992. A definitive historical overview of Roosevelt Field airport (New York), including 300 photographs
1995. His name was synonymous with speed, his flamboyant persona as carefully crafted as that of a Hollywood star.
1964. 1st edition. The story of No. 601 (County of London) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force, by a pilot in 601 from 1950 until it's end in 1957.
2002. The battle of Peleliu began on September 15, 1944.
1970. 1st edition. Over fifty years ago, the Red Air Force consisted of a motley collection of British, French and German aircraft. Many of them gleaned from the scrap-heaps of European battlefields.
1971. It was the greatest international air racing competition of its day.
1979. 1st edition. A captivating look at an international group of women flyers who took on their male counterparts and became pioneers of the air.
1973. 1st edition. Details of all major Soviet air campaigns from 1941 - 1945, this also provides little-known information on some uniquely Soviet aspects of the air war
1964. Revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive account of the de Havilland Tiger Moth.
1955. 1st edition. A comprehensive book about the wings of all forms of living flying creatures.
1981. An intriguing addition to the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft.
1990. 1st edition. Signed by the author. The first book to fully document the world's extant WWI aeroplanes.
1976. 1st edition. The historical personalities of New Zealand radio.
1968. 1st edition. The early days and growth of Lake Wakatipu and Queenstown up to the boom era of the 1970s.
1973. 1st edition. The absorbing story of passenger transport in the urban streets of New Zealand.
1982. 1st edition. The biography of Sir Geoffrey Roberts is, in many respects, a history of TEAL and Air New Zealand.
1951. About the Royal Air Force Squadron 617, originally commanded by Wing Commander Guy Gibson V.C. during World War II.
1981. 1st edition. Alice Evans has lived in the brooding presence of Mount Camel which calls so many New Zealanders to the Far North.
1971. 1st edition. Biography of Huia Mase who had crammed an unusual amount of career activity into her life.
1987. 1st edition. The America's cup attracted the finest yachts in the world to Freemantle, Western Australia-the prize, a silver ewer with an intrinsic value of just $800.
1969. A bulletin for schools on the history of H.P. Kidson growing up in Nelson.
1992. 1st edition. The centennial history of the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind 1890-1990.
1965. 1st edition. A guide to the Hokianga region with Maori history, historical notes and updated descriptions. SIGNED.
1968. 1st edition. The rise of this Union, its conflicts and advances.
1979. Written by two brothers whose family owned most of the Auckland theatres from 1905.
1967. 1st edition. Vintage manual that was designed particularly for New Zealand journalists at the cadet and junior levels and for students who contemplate a newspaper career.
1960s. The story of a Country Doctor's wife and her travels in New Zealand and other countries.
1984. 1st edition. Local history of Rangitoto Island near Auckland.
1969. The story of the shipwreck of the Elingamite off the New Zealand coast Three King Islands in 1902.
1999. 1st edition. Harry Julian was for decades one of the Auckland's harbour's most notable characters.
1962. Limited edition. Local centennial History of All Saints’ Parish, Nelson 1862 – 1962.
1979 1st edition. Biography of Albert Royle Henry (1907 – 1981) the man who came to be known as the Kissinger of the Pacific.
1974. 1st edition. Biography of Sir Dove-Myer Robinson, Mayor of Auckland for some 25 years. SIGNED.
1971 1st edition. A fine production and key book on the history celebrating celebrating the centenary of New Zealand's biggest city.
1976. Cartoon book of works published in the New Zealand Herald newspaper by the legendary Gordon Minhinnick who died in 1992.
1981. 1st edition. This story is an accident, the result of wandering down an interesting and irresistible byway. SIGNED.
1981. 1st edition. An illustrated overview of two hundred years of New Zealand naval history.
1973/1974. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1974/1975. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1974. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1974. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1977. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1977. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1970. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1970. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1972. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1967. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1973. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1977. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1968. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1977. A bastion of illustrated boating magazines.
1970. SIGNED. Cliff Tait flew solo around the world from New Zealand to New Zealand. Includes info on his selling the aircraft to MOTAT in 2005.
1985. 1st edition. Bertrands attempt to wrestle the America's Cup from the USA.
1986. 1st edition. No 1 Squadron had its beginnings in 1930 at Hobsonville airfield and was formed as a territorial unit.
1954. 1st edition. Memoir of Arthur Edmond Clouston. Record-breaking New Zealand-born Aviator, first civilian test pilot in the RAF & Air Commodore.
1959. 1st edition. Story of the attempted crossing of the Atlantic from Tenerife to Barbados in the hydrogen balloon in December 1958.
1978. The story of the Waihi and district gold mines.
1963. 1st edition. Alfred Reed travel memoir around the top of the South Island of New Zealand including the Molesworth and Marlborough Sounds.
1986. 1st edition. The story of 485 (NZ) Squadron Spitfire pilot Les "Chalky" White. SCARCE
1990. 1st edition. An account of fighter plane experiences in the Battle of Britain and throughout World War II by Group Captain Colin Gray.
1973. The New Zealand Forest Service Information Series No. 59.
1926. 1st edition. Gate Pa- was the fortress built in 1864 only 3 miles from the main British base of Camp Te Papa at Tauranga during the Tauranga Campaign of the New Zealand Land Wars.
1949. Extracts from contemporary letters, journals, and books, that paint a vivid picture of early days in New Zealand.
1957. 1st edition. A celebration by The New Zealand Listener of 21 years of radio personality Aunt Daisy - a collection of the stories of her life.
1981. 1st edition. John Gordon has been an actor, radio announcer and worked on NZBC and the National Programme.
1952. Cartoon book of works published in the New Zealand Herald newspaper by the legendary Gordon Minhinnick who died in 1992.
1971. 1st edition. Brian Edwards was formerly an interviewer for the NZBC current affairs programmer Gallery.
1969. New Zealand Refrigerating Company killed New Zealand livestock, froze the carcasses and shipped them for wholesaling in Smithfield, London.
1985. 1st edition. Captured memories, images and history of the Wellington Police district, centenary issue 1886-1986.
1989 1st edition. The World War II memoirs of a New Zealand pilot who flew daylight reconnaissance and nighttime bombing missions with the RAF Coastal Command.
1973 1st edition. Thames-Coromandel District history and memoirs.
1979 1st edition. Sailing Autobiography.
1968. 1st edition. Family's adventures building their boat 8,300 feet above sea level and then sailing it from Kenya to New Zealand.
1982 1st edition. An account of the elite police riot squad during the protests surrounding the 1981 Springbok rugby tour.
1986 1st edition. Celebrates 100 years of policing in New Zealand.
1937. Gate Pa- was the fortress built in 1864 only 3 miles from the main British base of Camp Te Papa at Tauranga during the Tauranga Campaign of the New Zealand Land Wars.
1949. A collection of cartoons published in the The New Zealand Herald newspaper during 1948 and 1949.
1980. A collection of cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald during 1980 by the legendary cartoonist Gordon Minhinnick who died in 1992.
1969. A collection of cartoons and caricatures by Minhinnick that were featured in the New Zealand Herald newspaper between 1968 - 1969.
1978. 1st edition. Biography of Gordon Dryden. A book of anecdotes and reflections from the life of the controversial and acclaimed New Zealand TV and radio personality.
1983. 1st edition. The biography of the New Zealand pilot who led a raid on Amsterdam Power Station in 1943.
1982. Vintage book on the Wanganui River region in New Zealand.
1964. A collection of pen portraits of some Australasian shipmasters who have traveled between Australia and New Zealand
1961. Contains all the instructions relative to visual and sound signalling of the International Code of Signals.
1952. 1st edition. The true story of a voyage in a small sailing ship across the Pacific Ocean.
1971. 1st edition. The autobiography of a New Zealand flying pioneer, a man who became a legend in his lifetime.
1951. 1st edition. First-hand accounts of voyages by ships of the Mercantile Marine.
1951. The Mariners Library - No.18. A collection of the seagoing writings of Hilaire Belloc, assembled by W. N. Roughead.
1972. 1st edition. New Zealand business history.
1966. Vintage handbook on the Westland region of New Zealand.
1965. 1st edition. Eugene and Valerie Grayland, both of them adventurous motorists and experienced writers, made a leisurely pilgrimage around the Coromandel Peninsula that has a varied history.
1966. Vintage official souvenir programme for the Auckland International Airport official opening in 1966.
1966 1st edition. Tells of the author's adventures in the Fiordland Region of New Zealand, as a bushman, tourist guide, launch skipper and as a worker on the Manapouri-Deep Cove hydro-project.
1956. The sinking of the great British liner Lusitania by a German U-boat in May 1915.
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,
1943. 1st edition. A collection of seventeen short stories and as many cartoons on or about the R.N.Z.A.F.
1985. 1st edition. Biography of Johnnie Houlton fighter pilot.
1959. 1st edition. The story of the attempted crossing of the Atlantic from Tenerife to Barbados in the hydrogen balloon "Small World" in December 1958.
1953 1st edition. Biography of chief test pilot and wartime fighter pilot Neville Duke.
1957 1st edition. Covering 32 of the worst accidents and incidents in New Zealand history with numerous on the disasters + others.
1948. A history of the Roxburgh-Millers Flat district in the South Island.
1981. Reminiscences of farming in the Otaki Gorge during the depression.
1978 1st edition. The Acheron is one of a select company of famous ships whose name will remain prominent in New Zealand history.
1979. 1st edition. A vivid account of New Zealand's past including its early visitors, explorers, whalers and missionaries.
1959. 1st edition. A collection of good stories and hilarious anecdotes concerning the nature of West Coasters.
1999. 1st edition. A survey of the geological faults found in New Zealand. This volume examines how and why faults occur and their impact on the environment.
1986. A highly comprehensive and informative insightful narrative set in the far north of the North Island hunting feral pigs.
1993. 1st edition. New Zealand maritime history.
1967. History of the River Thames New Zealand including a section on mines and hotels.
2002. This landmark biology text continues to be an invaluable learning partner for students and teachers.
1994. One hundred and eleven ideas to improve milking for New Zealand dairy farmers.
1976. 1st edition. A collection of poems and prose pieces by John Geddes.
2002. A vintage manual compiled by Massey University Institute of Natural Resources.
1996. A study of the plant material in the Cederberg area.
2000. Geared for the undergraduate student in Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine.
1988. 1st edition. This authoritative book commissioned by the New Zealand Society of Soil Science graphically illustrates their widely differing origins and characteristics.
1999. History of the Whanganui Island, the largest of a small group of islands at the entrance to Coromandel harbour in the Hauraki Gulf.
1978. 1st edition. The evolution of fly-fishing.
1977. 1st edition. Keith Coates Palgrave presents all the trees in Southern Africa in one handy volume.
1979. 1st edition. Poems by Mikki Buckland.
2002. Comprehensive textbook / manual on farming in New Zealand.
1943. 1st edition. Published for the benefit of the service men and women of New Zealand during World War II years.
1976. 1st edition. The author is both the creator and curator of the mineral collection of the La Sorbonne University in Paris, where he has access to some of the finest examples of minerals.
1992. Farming reference guide designed to facilitate quick reference in an emergency including a comprehensive index and with cross-index references.
1936. Contains a detailed treatise on the uses of Comfrey in medicine and herbalism.
1988. 1st edition. The second volume of Alan Paton's autobiography.
1982. 1st edition. Theology and religion. SIGNED.
Circa 1970. A pictorial record with monochrome photos and a map of the Auckland city centre.
1991. 1st edition. An account of the Sole family who emigrated to New Zealand in 1841.
1993. 1st edition. The history of Kaiapoi is a study of one of the most interesting and varies towns in New Zealand.
1973. Souvenir magazine and programme for the KihiKihi Primary School Centenary.
1985. A series of seven softcover books covering the history of various forms of transport in Christchurch.
1950. Massey Agricultural College Bulletin No. 18. An in-depth look at drainage of farmlands.
1980. 1st edition. This assessment was made in response to a request from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to examine the effects of nuclear war on populations and economies.
1982. 1st edition. A history of the Avon-Heathcote Estuary, its communities, clubs, controversies and contributions.
1978. 1st edition. A blend of biography, documentary and evocation of life in early Otago, based on the Journal of Henry Monson, Dunedin Gaol, 1851-61.
1990. A history of the development of the Rangitaiki swamp between the Rangitaiki and Tarawera rivers.
1992. A century of memories from Claudelands Showgrounds, Hamilton.
1990. 1st edition. The stories of families, schools, halls, and community organisations, over the period 1900 to 1990, in a scattered rural farming district west of Te Kuiti.
2000. A history of Wellsford School in the Rodney district north of Auckland, published to commemorate its 125 Jubilee.
1964. 1st edition. The biography of pioneer New Zealand surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, who was the founder of modern plastic surgery.
1938. The new job security promised in this poster was a key factor in Labour's victories in 1935 and again in 1938 with an increased majority.
1940. Story of 73 Squadron which fought with overwhelming success in the Battle for France in 1939-40.
1943. The official account of Combined Operations to date, including the Lofotens raid; the exploits of Layforce; North Africa; Vaagso; St Nazaire; Diego Suarez; Dieppe.
1988. 1st edition. Presents a nostalgic look at life from the much loved glossy pages of The Weekly News.
1980. A vintage book on the Milford Sound and Fiordland National Park in New Zealand.
1960s. Royal Air Force training handbook.
1961/1962. Bound collection of eight bound Royal Air Force magazines.
1965/1966. Bound collection of twelve editions of RAF Flying Review magazines.
1964/1965. Bound collection of twelve editions of RAF Flying Review magazines.
1955/1956. Bound collection of twelve editions of RAF Flying Review magazines.
1963/1964. Bound collection of twelve editions of RAF Flying Review magazines.
1962/1963. Bound collection of twelve bound Royal Air Force magazines.
1956. Bound collection of twelve editions of RAF Flying Review magazines between 1956 to 1957.
1954/1955. Bound collection of twelve editions of RAF Flying Review magazines.
Undated. Official Pilot's handbook for the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1988. 1st edition. A comprehensive look at the world's 150 air forces and their current aircraft.
1967. Military aircraft profiles and specifications with an emphasis on the fighter aircraft of World War ll.
1944. Vintage information manual for aviation navigation students during the World War 2 era.
1916. An early technical guide to the development of engines in aircraft. This edition is a modern reproduction of the 1916 original.
2009. Commercial Aviation History in Turkey 1909-1967. Text in Turkish.
1964. 1st edition. Presents the details of the histories of all the Royal Air Force's bomber squadrons formed since the First World War including those having their beginnings in the R.F.C. or R.N.A.S
2022. An official oral history of Jethro Tull, mixing over 600 fan anecdotes with those of band members and other collaborators. SCARCE
2008 1st edition. Well-known aviation journalist Andreas Spaeth has followed the gigantic A380 project since its beginnings. SCARCE.
1998. 1st edition. Poetry and prose.
1995. Americas Cup win feature section from within the Christchurch Press.
1902. Fantastic item of original New Zealand memorabilia that would look great framed.
1965. Vintage weekly New Zealand newspaper.
1967. Vintage weekly New Zealand newspaper.
1964. Vintage weekly New Zealand newspaper.
1969. Vintage weekly New Zealand newspaper.