Travel/Exploration

All Prices are in NZ$

Title

Sub-title

Author

Publisher

Published

Pages

Size

Condition

Price

Comment

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Europe Post

Rest of World Post

New Zealand Paradise of the Pacific

 

Anon

NZ Govt Publicity Office

1928 Reprint edition (1927)

31

8vo

Decorated thick paper covers, string binding   VG - Near Fine

40

A nice copy of this folder of NZ scenes designed for tourists, with colour and B-W photographs and paintings by contemporary NZ artists, such as Will Burrell and Allen Bollard

5.000000

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25.000000

Rambles in New Zealand 1839

 

Bidwill, John Carne ; Taylor, CRH ; Allan, HH

The Pegasus Press

1952 2nd Impression

127p (1p)

8vo

D-J (small piece missing top, bottom spine, in protective wrapper)  Paper over boards  Thin browning strip Eps Owner's details top p11  VG

35

With map, two woodcuts by E Mervyn Taylor, and a piece on Bidwill as Botanist, the author's travels and experiences in New Zealand, and his observations, inter alia, of Maori language and ways of living, an edition of 375 copies

6.500000

26.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Constance Astley's trip to New Zealand 1897-1898

 

De Fresnes, Jill (ed)

Victoria University Press

1997

160

8vo

P-B Bump top of spine Near Fine

35

With illustrations and water-colours, the diary of a full-length trip of New Zealand just before the end of the 19th century

5.000000

19.000000

35.000000

39.000000

42.000000

The Pioneer Explorers of New Zealand

 

Elder, John Rawson

Blackie

1929

(frontis) iv (2p) 121p

Small 8vo

Decorated blue cloth over boards, grey cloth spine  Yellow titles front, black titles spine  Slight foxing prelims, FEs VG

40

Explorers and travellers in early NZ, from Whalers and Sealers to Surveyors and Mountaineers

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Great Journeys in old New Zealand

Travel and exploration in a new land

Ell, Gordon & Sarah

Bush Press

1995

184

4to

P-B Signature inside front cover VG

25

With illustrations and maps, a collection of writings of early New Zealand European travellers, including Marsden, Colenso, Reischek, Shortland, Brunner

5.000000

18.000000

33.000000

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Overland from Auckland to Wellington in 1853

being notes of travel

Mackenzie, Francis Wallace

J Wilkie

1893

(2p) 82p

Small 8vo

Green cloth binding, gilt titles  Remains of picture of Prime Minister Ward on rear cover  Internal hinge papers cracked  Water mark around extremities of EPs, and TP and p82  Gd

450

A scarce diary of travel through mid-century North Island, and including the north half of the South Island, recording, as a keen observer, the progress of the young 'colony'

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The Great Kiwi Motorhome Guide

 

Malcolm, Jill ; Savidan, Bill

Random House

2011

254p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

P-B VG

25

With maps and illustrations, exploring New Zealand by campervan or motorhome, where to stay, how to get there

6.500000

28.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

The Great Kiwi Motorhome Guide  exploring New Zealand by campervan or motorhome

 

Malcolm, Jill ; Savidon, Bill

Random House

2011

254p (2p)

Oblong 8vo

P-B Near Fine

25

With maps and illustrations, both a guide to purchasing and preparing a campervan as well as where to go, from Cape Reinga to the Bluff

5.500000

16.000000

32.000000

34.000000

36.000000

 Out there North  a 4WD adventure in New Zealand's North Island

 

Morton, Chris ; Bridge, Tony

Out There Media

2012

132

Oblong 4to

D-J Paper over boards Near Fine

25

With illustrations, out-of-the-way places for 4WD drivers in the North Island

6.500000

29.000000

64.000000

59.000000

64.000000

Exploration New Zealand

 

Pascoe, John

Reed

1971

140p (4p)

4to

D-J Paper over boards VG - Near Fine

25

With illustrations, a study of how the regions of New Zealand were 'explored' by Europeans

6.500000

30.000000

60.000000

55.000000

60.000000

Detours

A journey through small-town New Zealand

Peat, Neville

Whitcoulls

1982

(frontis map) 250p (1p)

8vo

D-J (slight chips, in archival wrapper)  VG - Near Fine

20

Author signed and inscribed, a bicycle trip through the backblocks of New Zealand, from top to bottom, with drawings by Sarah Marston

6.500000

27.000000

55.000000

50.000000

55.000000

Wandering on the Islands of Wonders

 

Pospisil, Bohumil

CSW

1935

304

8vo

Blue cloth binding, black titles Slight marks covers Slight foxing FEs VG

20

Author signed; adventures, impressions and comparative criticisms of NZ, first written in Czech

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New Zealand Explorers

Great Journeys of Discovery

Temple, Philip

Whitcoulls

1985

192

4to

D-J  VG - Near Fine

30

A nice copy of this study of European explorers in NZ, from Dieffenbach in the North to Chalmers in the South, with many illustrations

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33.000000

37.000000

38.000000

Model A Motorhome

South Island Journey in a Model A Ford Motor Car

Wilkinson, Tom ; Wilkinson, Jim (ed)

Editor Pub

2006

iii 134p

8vo

Spiral bound, light card covers   Near Fine

35

With illustrations, early car travel in the South Island, down the West Coast and holidaying in the Mackenzie Country

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In the Land of the Tui  my journal in New Zealand

 

Wilson, Mrs Robert

Sampson Low, Marston & Co

1894

(frontis) xviii (2p) 322p (folding map)

8vo

Grey blue cloth binding, gilt titles, decoration  Slight bumping top, bottom spine  Slight marks cloth  VG - Near Fine

95

With map and illustrations, a tour of New Zealand during 1889-1890, a nice copy

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33.000000

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43.000000

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