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Boat Building

Fast Light Boats: A Century of Kiwi Innovation
by Grahame Anderson
Wellington: Te Papa Press, 1999
First Edition. ISBN: 0909010676
182pp, B/W and colour plates

The Logans: New Zealand’s Greatest Boatbuilding Family
by Robin Elliott & Harold Kidd
Auckland: David Ling, 2001
First Edition. ISBN: 0908990758
132pp, B/W plates

Small Yachts: Their Design and Construction
Exemplified By the Ruling Types of Modern Practice
by C. P. Kunhardt
Brooklin, [...]

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A Labyrinth of Waterways The Forgotten Story of New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds
by Frank W. Ponder
Published by Wenlock House in 1986.
This is No. 1229 of 1500 copies
168pp with colour & B/W plates and maps

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 The Life of Captain James Cook.
by J. C. Beaglehole
 
 
The 2nd impression of the biography of Cook published to accompany Beaglehole’s ground-breaking edition of Cook’s Journals.  
 

London: A. & C. Black, 1974. 8vo. Cloth. . Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket.
ISBN: 0713613823.
 xi, 760 pp, B/W plates, maps. Light foxing to page edges, DJ price-clipped [...]

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The Pandora Survey
by Brian Byrne

Another impressive, beautiful publication by local historian Brian Byrne in a limited, numbered edition of 500 copies, signed by author.
320pp, 19 colour plates, charts, B/W illustrations, tables, references, bibliography, index, chart endpapers.
The 1848-1856 Great Survey of New Zealand, carried out initially by Captain John Stokes in HMS Acheron between [...]

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A Labyrinth of Waterways The Forgotten Story of New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds
by Frank W. Ponder.
Published by Wenlock House in 1986.
This is No. 643 of 1500 copies, signed by the author.
168pp with colour & B/W plates and maps.
$310.00
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