The Waitangi Tribunal - Te Roopu Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi by Janine Hayward (ed.); Nicola R Wheen (ed.)
$37.50 NZD
Category: Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. The Waitangi Tribunal was established in 1975 to hear claims by Maori against the Crown arising under the Treaty of Waitangi. Today it sits at the heart of the Treaty settlement process, with a unique jurisdiction to investigate claims and make recommendations for a settlement. The Tribunal ...Show more
Four-Legged Major by Graham Spencer
$21.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Major was the mascot of the 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment of the NZ Army from 1940 to 1944, serving in North Africa, and Italy, wounded in the former and dying of illness in Italy in 1944, to be buried alongside two officers from the regiment. Such was Major's military status that an e ...Show more
A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa by Catherine Hammond, Shaun Higgins
$65.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ
In 1848, two decades after a French inventor mixed daylight with a cocktail of chemicals to fix the view outside his window onto a metal plate, photography arrived in Aotearoa. How did these 'portraits in a machine' reveal Maori and Pakeha to themselves and to each other? Were the first photographs 'a g ...Show more
The Changing Land: A Short History of New Zealand (Second Edition) by Michael Turnbull; Illustrated by Jill McDonald
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First published in 1960, this is Second edition, revised and enlarged. A well-written book on New Zealand history for young people.
Petticoat Pioneers (Full Three Volume Set) by Miriam Macgregor; Barbara Harper
$165.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Petticoat Pioneers One, Two and Three. All three are first edition (1973, 1975 and 1980). Book One and Two are about North Island women of the colonial era, including personal studies of 94 women, no matter they are Maori or Pakeha, married or single, educated or barely literate, well-to-do ...Show more
Those Who Have the Courage - The History of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps by Matthew Wright
$95.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military History
'Those Who Have the Courage will be a valuable resource for anyone who is interested in the military and social history of New Zealand. It is a comprehensive history of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps, the Mounted Rifles and predecessor units ¿' - Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro, from the Foreword ...Show more
George Rhodes of the Levels and his Brothers: Early settlers of New Zealand, Particularly the story of the Founding of the Levels, the first sheep station in South Canterbury by A. E. Woodhouse
$285.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. An in depth history and biography of the lives of the Rhodes' Brothers - William, Robert, Joseph, Peter and George - which also covers the early pastoral settlement of South Canterbury between 1839 and 1884. Illustrated with monochrome photographs and folded maps.
Postcards From the 20th Century: A Lifetime of Memories by New Zealand Women by HARRISON & BOYD
$21.50 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. In this absorbing book, ten New Zealand women look back on their lives throughout the twentieth century. They share memories of their families and themselves: Enid hides naked in the broom cupboard to avoid the mter reader; during 1942 Wellington earthquake Shirley runs through the heaving ...Show more
Presenting New Zealand: A Nation's Heritage by Philip Temple
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ History
Secondhand. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 full colour and black and white historical and contemporary photographs, artworks and regional maps, Presenting New Zealand is a quintessential visual and informative account of how the country has developed in relative isolation into the independent natio ...Show more
Fame Passes By:1769-1885 by Mona Gordon
$19.50 NZD
Category: Early NZ
Secondhand. This book contains five vivid studies of famous people who came to New Zealand between the years 1769-1885. Three of them made the long and perilous journey by sail, and two, in the early days of steamships. In these 160 years NZ was but an outpost of Empire, a land remote from the literary ...Show more
Uncanny Country by B E Baughan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Early NZ
A small booklet, Uncanny Country, the Thermal District of New Zealand. By B.E Baughan. Contains black & white photographs of early New Zealand thermal pools and areas.
Growing Together: Letters Between Frederick John Cato and Frances Bethune, 1881-1884 by Una B Porter
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Private published. Limited edition of 1000 copies. This volume is number 252. These letters record the beginnings of a commercial enterprise which subsequently grew to prosperity and fame as Moran and Cato Pty Ltd. Above all, they showed to young people growing in themselves, intellectually ...Show more