Memories of a mission house : being reminiscences of the early days of Tauranga / by Alice Maxwell ; recorded by H. Bradney Williams. Tauranga 1942.

Tauranga, Bay of Plenty Times. 1942, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 22 pages, 4 photos, much underlining and handwritten annotations. Good.

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N° du livre: 008708

Catalogue: History

¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ = Minatogawa human remains and palaeolithic Okinawa.

Okinawa prefectual Board of Education. 1998, First Edition. Soft cover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, 56 pages, many colour photos, maps and figures. Name at top of front cover. Text is in Japanese with English translations. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 007646

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Palaeontology

The Missionary Register for MDCCCXVI [1816]: containing the principal transactions of the various institutions for propagating the gospel: with the proceedings, at large, of the Church Missionary Society.

London, L. B. Seeley. 1816, First Edition. Half-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 12 monthly issues bound in one volume. [8], 527, [15] pages, illustrations and 2 maps. Leather spine and corners, red title label on spine. Ex-General Assembly Library New Zealand. The Church Missionary Society was founded in London in 1799 as the Society for Missions in Africa and the East, by Evangelical clergy of the Church of England In 1812 it was renamed the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East. During its first 10 years it sent only five missionaries to work among non-Christians, but it gradually gained support, and its work expanded. This volume contains many reports and letters on the beginnings of missionary work in New Zealand, including a map of the northern part of New Zealand and illustrations of Maori tattoos, wood carvings and a tiki. Also reports on Africa, Agra, Allahabad, Amboyna, America, Antigua, Asia, Astrachan, Barbados, Bashia, Batticaloe, Bay of Islands, Bengal, Bethelsdorp, Bombay, Calcutta, Cape Colville, Ceylon, China, Colombo, Goree, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hindustan, India, West Indies, Isle de France, Jaffnapatam, Jamaica, Kapparoo, Karass, Madras, Malta, Nagpore, Nepal, New Zealand, Orissa, Parramatta, Rangoon, Rio Pongas, Russia, Senegal, Serampore, Sierra Leone, Sirdhana, South Sea islands, Surat, Theodosia, Tranquebar, Travancore, Port Jackson, Sudney, Waimate, Yongroo Pomoh etc. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 011322

Catalogue: History

The Nagamazuku site excavation discovery of prehistoric tridacna shell adzes Miyako Island, Okinawa.

1984, First Edition. Soft cover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, 101 pages, b/w plats, maps, diagrams. Text is in Japanese with a 2 page precis in English. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 008241

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Japan

The New Hebrides magazine. A Journal of Missionary and General Information regarding the Islands of the New Hebrides [Vanuatu]. No. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

New Hebrides Mission Synod. 1904, First Edition. Half-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 5 isues of this journal from October 1904 to November 1905. Between 24 and 32 pages each, maps, b/w illustrations. Ex-General Assembly Library New Zealand with gilt stamps of the library on the spine and front cover. Reports on Aniwa, Nguna, Nogugu, Lenakel, Beriberi, Inter-Island labour traffic, Havannah harbour, native marriage customs, folk-lore, Iririki Island, ethnological notes, Erromanga, Melanesian Mission, Tanna, etc. etc. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 011321

Catalogue: History

New Zealand Journal of Archaeology. Volume 3, 1981

Dunedin, New Zealand A. 1981, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 154 pages, illustrations, diagrams. The role of pigs in the economy of Pakea Islet, Banks Islands, Southwest Pacific; Pre-European hunting dogs in the South Island, New Zealand; Fluorine concentration profiles in archaeological bone: an application of a nuclear microprobe; Dating New Zealand obsidian by resonant nuclear reactions; Archaeological interpretation of alluvial gold tailing sites Central Otago, New Zealand; The ages of Pacific obsidian from fission track analysis; Regional occurrence of the fern-root plane in pre-historic New Zealanders; New Zealand mataa from Marlborough, Nelson and the Chatham Islands; Archaic and Classic Maori relationships at Long Beach, Otago: the artefacts and activity areas; The value of high latitude models in South Pacific archaeology: a critique. Good.

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N° du livre: 011493

Catalogue: History

The New Zealand Journal Of Science Devoted To The Furtherance Of Pure And Applied Science Throughout The Colony. Vol. II, Nos. 1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10,12.

Dunedin, Wise, Caffin. 1884, First Edition. Half-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 9 issues bound in one volume, some damage to the margins of pages 249-268 withiout loss of text. Contains several plates and two original photo prints of Ferdinand von Hochstetter. Authors include: Charles Chilton, Sir Julius von Haast, Walter Buller, James Hector, G.V. Hudson, f.W. Hutton, Robert von Lendenfeld, Andreas Reischek, etc. Topics include: Fossils, Moa remains, decrease of the Maori race, biographical notes on von Hochstetter, etc. Nearly Very Good.

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N° du livre: 5648

Catalogue: New Zealand Natural History

Ngati Mutunga. Our Journey to a Crown Settlement Offer.

Urenui, Ngati Mutunga Iwi Authority. 2005, 1st Edition. Soft cover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, 42 pages, one map, colour and b/w illustrations. Ngati Mutunga are in Urenui, Taranaki and the area around it. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 008671

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Maori

Notes relative to the Use of Charts / issued by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. (=Treasury Department, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey) Special Publication No. 6.

Washington, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. 1900, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 23 pages, 7 plates, disbound from larger volume, lacking rear wrapper. Good.

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N° du livre: 5901

Catalogue: Maritime History

On the sites in Tokyo : archaeological perspective in the Tokyo metropolis.

Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education. 1985, First Edition. Soft cover, Oblong. Book, 89 pages, maps, many colour illustrations. Text is in Japanese, summaries of chapters in English. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 008262

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Japana

Otago Law Review. Volume 1. Number 1. August 1965.

Otago University Law Students Association, 1965, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 110 pages plus advertising pages. Rare. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 009481

Catalogue: History

The Popular Educator. Volume the Fourth.

London, W. Kent. 1854, First Edition. Hardcover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, 388 pages, many illustrations, spine split at the bottom. Good.

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N° du livre: 5898

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Algebra, Biography, Chemistry, English, French, Geography, Geology, Geometry, German, Greek, Instrumental Arithmetic, Latin, Music, Natural Philosophy, Elocution,. Skeleton Maps, Mathematical Illustrations

Porphyr. Tagungsband Der "Porphyr" - Tagung am 21. Und 22. Oktober 2011 in Weilbach Und Amorbach, Landkreis Miltenberg.

Karlstein, Helga Lorenz Verlag. 2011, First Edition. Hardcover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, 188 pages, 228 illustrations, drawings and maps, mostly in colour. Text in German. Fine.

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N° du livre: 6697

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Archaeology, Archäologie, Art, Kunst, Architektur, Architecture

Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society - Volume 62, Part 1, 1906. No. 245.

London, Longmans, Green. 1906, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, i-vii, 1-124. 5 plates, text illustrations. Lacks bottom corner of front cover. Myriacanthus Paradoxus; Doncaster Earthquake 1906; Glacial Period in Aberdeenshire and the Souther Border of the Moray Firth, Geological structure of the Sgurr of Eigg; Coastledges in the South-West of the Cape Colony; Rocks and Cataracts of the River Madeira. Good.

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N° du livre: 007364

Catalogue: Natural History

Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society - Volume 62, Part 2, 1906. No. 246.

London, Longmans, Green. 1906, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, ix-cxxviii, 125-380 pages. 30 plates, text illustrations. Footprints from the Permian of Mansfield; Clay-with-flints; Tarns of Canton Ticino; Highest Silurian Rocks of the Ludlow District; Igneous and associated sedimentary rocks of Llangynog; Buttermere and Ennerdale Granphyre; Carboniferous rocks at Rush; Carboniferous limestone (Avonian) at the Mendip Area. Good.

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N° du livre: 007365

Catalogue: Natural History