New Zealand Medicinal Plants

by S. G. Brooker, R. C. Cambie  & R. C.  Cooper

Auckland: Reed Books , 1991. Reprint.

ISBN: 0790002507. 268pp, colour plates, illustrations

$45.00

Forest Vines to Snow Tussocks

by John Dawson

Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1993. Second Edition.

ISBN: 0864730470. 264pp, B/W plates, diagrams

$40.00

Eagle’s Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand in Colour: Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight Botanical Paintings

by Audrey Eagle

Auckland: Collins, 1975. First Edition.

311pp, colour plates

$85.00

New Zealand Spiders: An Introduction

by R. R. & L. M. Forster

Auckland: Collins, 1973. First Edition

254 pp. colour & B/W plates

$85.00

New Zealand Butterflies: Identification and Natural History

by George W. Gibbs

Auckland: Collins, 1980. First Edition

ISBN: 000216955X. 207 pp. colour plates

$95.00

New Zealand Alpine Plants

by A. F. Mark

Illustrated by Nancy M. Adams

Auckland: Reed Methuen, 1986. Second Revised Edition.

ISBN: 0474002241. 265pp, colour illustrations

$50.00

The New Zealand Sea Shore

by John Morton and Michael Miller

Auckland: Collins, 1968. First Edition

ISBN: 638pp, colour & B/W plates, illustrations

$85.00

The Reed Field Guide to New Zealand Geology: An Introduction to Rocks Minerals and Fossils

by Jocelyn Thornton

Auckland: Reed Books, 1995. Reprint.

ISBN: 0790004054. 226pp, B/W plates, diagrams

$45.00

on Saturday February 4

and on

Waitangi Day Monday February 6

10 am to 5 pm

Legends of the Maori

by Maui Pomare and James Cowan

Volume I: Mythology Folk-Lore Tradition and Poetry

Volume II:Maori-Polynesian Historical Traditions Folk-Lore and Stories of Old New Zealand

Illustrated with tipped-in B/W plates by Stuart Peterson

Wellington: Harry H. Tombs, 1930.

#83 of the de luxe edition of 300, signed by both authors and illustrator

The frontispiece to Volume I is an original etching ‘The Gathering of the Legends’ signed by Stuart Peterson

Vol I: xxiv, 322pp, 24 B/W tipped-in plates with tissue guards

Vol II: B/W frontispiece portrait of Pomare, xviii, 285pp, 25 tipped-in B/W plates with tissue guards

Bound in full leather

Some faults

$650.00

both Saturday and Monday

this holiday weekend

January 28 and 30

10 am to 5 pm

The store will also be open both Saturday and Monday next weekend, Waitangi weekend, February 4 and 6

Captain Cook: Master of the Seas  by Frank McLynn

The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd

Power and Glory: Jacobean England and The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson

The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles by Benedict Gummer

Monarchy From The Middle Ages to Modernity by David Starkey

The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion That Shook Henry VIII’s Throne by Geoffrey Moorhouse

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray

Paradise of Cities: Venice and its Nineteenth-Century Visitors by John Julian Norwich

The Siege of Venice by Jonathan Keates

Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

Soldiers & Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J. E. Lendon

The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson

The Works of Charles Dickens

The “Charles Dickens Edition”

Chapman & Hall, London, 1887-1894

21 volumes, illustrated

plus The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster

stippled green cloth boards, green leather spines and corners, 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine, marbled endpapers and edges

$750

SOLD

I am taking a break between Christmas and New Year.

Jason Books

is closing at 2pm on

Saturday 24 Dec

Reopens

Wednesday 4 January

Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West by Andrew Roberts

Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain’s Asian Empire &

Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia 1941-1945 by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper

The Defeat and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942 by Brian P. Farrell

The Battle For Hong Kong 1941-1945: Hostage to Fortune by Oliver Lindsay with the Memories of John R. Harris

GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency by Richard J. Aldrich

Globalization and History: the Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy by Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Here On Earth: An Argument For Hope by Tim Flannery

Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer

The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams

Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius by Peter F. Ostwald

A User’s Guide to The Millennium: Essays and Reviews by J. G. Ballard

Turning Back The Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism by Umberto Eco

The Early Stories 1953-1975 by John Updike

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtse by Peter Hessler

Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were

by Donald S. Johnson

Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki by P. J. Capelotti

From the Writer’s Notebook: Around New Zealand with 80 Authors by Lydia Monin

The Herbert Huncke reader edited by Benjamin G. Schafer

Picasso: Life and Art by Pierre Daix

Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett by Simon Louvish

Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

The Lives of Agnes Smedley by Ruth Price

Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight by Roland Perry

Worm: The First Digital World War by Mark Bowden

The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks

Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science by Michael Brooks

How To Dunk A Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life by Len Fisher

10 x 10 – 2: 100 Architects 10 Critics

London: Phaidon, 2008

Reprint. ISBN: 9780714848648. 464pp, colour plates. $60.00

Building: 3000 Years of Design Engineering and Construction

by Bill Addis

London: Phaidon, 2007

ISBN: 9780714841465. 640pp, colour & B/W plates, illus.  $40.00

Contemporary European Architects

by Wolfgang Amsoneit

Koln: Taschen, 1991

ISBN: 3822897531. 160pp, colour plates, plans  $30.00

Vacation Houses

by Aurora Cuito

New York: Harper Design, 2004

ISBN: 0060747978. 175pp, colour plates  $16.00

Beijing Full Throttle: A City Scape Under Construction

by Naudia Lou and  Christian Treubert

Pohlheim: Out of Area Architects

ISBN: 9783000252013. No date, not paginated, colour plates  $45.00

Palladio: The Complete Buildings

by Paolo Marron, Manfred Wundram and Thomas Pape

Koln: Taschen, 2008

Reprint. 4to. ISBN: 9783836505475. 248pp, colour plates, plans  $80.00

Whereabouts: New Architecture with Local Identities

by Susanna Sirefman

New York: The Monacelli Press, 2004

ISBN: 9781580931205. 191pp, colour & B/W plates, plans  $30.00

Joyful Architecture: The Genius of New Zealand’s Ian Athfield

by Gerald Melling

Dunedin: Caveman Press, 1980

ISBN: 090856290X. 95pp, colour & B/W plates, plans. $150.00

The Elegant Shed: New Zealand Architecture Since 1945

by David Mitchell and Gillian Chaplin

Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1984

ISBN: 0195581253. 112pp, colour & B/W plates  $130.00

The New Zealand Period House: A Conservation Guide

by Stuart Arden and Ian Bowman

Auckland: Random House, 2004

ISBN: 1869415523. 235pp, colour & B/W plates  $35.00