Nova Pacifica (35 results)

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First. This is the soft cover edition with black card covers with labels on paper plate on front. Unnumbered. Marbled e/p's. 376pp. No inscriptions. Tipped-in colour plates. Page edges have some foxing . Some scratching to covers. Rear e/p has small tear. This book is heavy so please…

Condition: Used: Very Good. Wellington, NZ: Nova Pacifica, 1982. Large, stout hardcover bound in 3/4 blue leather over blue cloth with 5 raised band spine decorated in compartments. ISBN: 090860310x; folio; xii, 376 pages; b/w frontispiece portrait of Darwin, 27 color plates (1 folding), many in-text illustrations, index. No sli…

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Some light rubbing and fading to spine. Some light rubbing, fading, dust stains, and a few minor marks to outside of slipcase. ; xii, 376 pages + frontispiece + plates. Half bound in blue leather with red and light blue spine labels. Page dimension…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Folio. xii, 376 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits. No. 66 of 750. Hardcover in slip case. Bound in 3/4 black leather. Gilt lettering on spine and front cover. 5 raised bands. Blue cloth boards. Marbled endpages. Fine binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heav…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued. 1st Edition. 1982 FIRST EDITION deluxe binding in publisher's slipcase. New condition, straight from publisher's shipping box (still present), kept in climate controlled storage for years. Never used. With publisher's original packing & shipping review/delive…

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First New Zealand Edition. Jacket has moderate general wear, some creasing to front and a 1cm tear at head of spine. Some minor foxing to edges of page-block Internally clean. Binding good. 402pp VERY HEAVY BOOK. ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGE TO NZ. WILL NOT SHIP…

hardbound. Collection of the paintings of New Zealand birds by renowned British bird artist George Edward Lodge; first commissioned by the NZ Government in the early 1900's (and meant to include a text by James Drummond) but interrupted by WWI, the plates passed into the care of the NZ National Museum, where they remained until…

DATED & SIGNED BY C A FLEMING, UNCOMMON THUS, sm folio, brown faux leather boards, gilt lettering to blue buckram spine, frontispiece, xiv + 409pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps & some prelim pages, light soiling to plate 38 with sl cracking at gutter) in d…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. VERY HEAVY. Foreword by Sir Peter Scott. Preface (covering the history of the commissioning and subsequent provenance of the paintings) by Dr J C Yaldwyn. 408 pages, 89 plates in full colour illustrating 155 birds. Prev owner's name has been erased from the upper corner…

First edition thus. A facsimile and limited edition, of 750 copies, this being copy #143. Hardcover. Thick quarto. Bound in quarter blue leather, spine lettered in gilt on salmon-coloured panels, front and back panels bound in salmon cloth, with marble endpapers and limitations bookplate. Illustrated with b/w engravings and draw…

Hardcover. folio, 31cm, xii,376p., limited edition of 750 numbered copies, this being #401, tipped-in frontis portrait, c.150 illustrations including 27 tipped-in colour plates, references, index, bound in half dark blue calf and dark blue fine grain linen boards, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt decorations and double leather labe…