Maud's Journal
The Mapping of Australia
18 March 2013 Latest News, Pacific, Specialist
The Mapping of Australia by R.N. Tooley London: The Holland Press, 1979 First Edition. ISBN: 0900470879 633pp, B/W plates $600.00
read more »Maori & Pacific Art
17 September 2012 Arts, Latest News, Maori, Pacific
Maori Art Kohia Ko Taikaka Anake: New Zealand’s Largest Exhibition of Contemporary Maori Art, National Art Gallery 1 December 1990- 17 March 1991 $15.00 Gilbert Archey: Sculpture and Design: An Outline of Maori Art. Auckland: Auckland War Memorial Museum, 1955. $20.00Terence Barrow: Maori Art of New Zealand. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1982. [...]
read more »Pacific History Ethnography & Art
21 August 2012 Latest News, Pacific
d’Albertis, L. M.: New Guinea What I Did and What I Saw London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880. First Edition. 8vo. Decorative Cloth. Ex Library. Fair – Good 2 vols. x, 424pp., frontis. port., colour & B/W plates, illus.; x, 406pp., B/W plates, fold. col. map. Ex University of Auckland Library. Considerable wear, [...]
read more »Flash Sale Book Bargains
16 August 2012 Architecture, Arts, Latest News, Literature, Natural History, New Zealand, Pacific
Colin McCahon: Gates and Journeys Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery, 1988. Very Good. ISBN: 0864631650. 157 pp, B/W frontis, 30 colour plates, B/W illus in text $210.00 NOW $100 Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide and Handbook by Una Platts. Christchurch: Avon Fine Prints, 1980. 272pp, colour & B/W plates. DJ spine faded $165.00 [...]
read more »Flash Sale: Book Bargains
30 July 2012 Arts, Latest News, Literature, Maori, Natural History, Nautical, New Zealand, Pacific
Sale prices apply until 5pm on Monday August 7 Single copies only: Strictly first come basis Ralph Hotere The Artist. Auckland: Ron Sang Publications, 2008. New. ISBN: 9780473139704. 324pp, colour & B/W plates $195.00 NOW $95 Icons Nga Taonga from the Collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2004. [...]
read more »Art of the Pacific
29 September 2011 Arts, Latest News, Maori, Pacific
Art of the Pacific with photographs by Brian Brake conversations with James McNeish and commentary by David Simmons Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1979 ISBN: 0195580435 240pp, colour & B/W plates $125.00
read more »Paul Gauguin: Noa Noa Voyage to Tahiti
15 August 2009 Arts, Latest News, Pacific
Oxford: Bruno Cassirer First Edition 4to. Decorative Cloth. 70pp text plus colour plates orange decorative cloth cover
read more »From the Catalogue
3 December 2008 Latest News, Nautical, New Zealand, Pacific
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, [...]
read more »Just In
10 September 2008 Latest News, New Zealand, Non-Fiction, Pacific
Pacific Commandos: New Zealanders and Fijians in Action: A History of Southern Independent Commando and First Commando Fiji Generals. by Colin R. Larsen. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1946. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. 161pp, B/W plates. Bookplate from the Library of A. H. & A. W. Reed on ffep, 2 clippings of reviews [...]
read more »Featured Book
10 September 2008 Arts, Latest News, New Zealand, Pacific
Sydney Parkinson Artist of Cook’s Endeavour Voyage. Edited by D. J. Carr Sydney Parkinson was the young chief artist on James Cook’s first voyage in the Endeavour. He died on that voyage aged just 26. In just over two years Parkinson had produced hundreds of drawings of plants and animals. This was the first book [...]
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