Australasia. Handbooks of New Zealand, an institutional samm...

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Australasia. Handbooks of New Zealand, an institutional sammelband of nine titles, comprising 1) Dadelszen (E.J. von, Registrar-General, compiler), Statistical View of Fifty Years' Progress in New Zealand, 1856-1905. Wellington: By authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, 1906, 10pp, original wrappers, 2) [Papua], [MacGregor (Sir William)], Handbook of Information for Intending Settlers in British New Guinea. Brisbane: James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1892, [vi], 34pp, folding map, damaged and repaired, bound-in ALS, original upper-wrapper only, 3) Greater Britain Exhibition, Earl's Court, London, 1899: Catalogue of Exhibits in the Queensland Court, 94pp, original wrappers, 4) Byrnes (The Hon. T. J. Byrnes, Attorney-General of Queensland), An Address, London: Wartlow and Sons Limited, 1897, 15pp, original wrappers, 5) Dadelszen (E.J. von, Registrar-General, compiler), Statistical View of Fifty Years' Progress in New Zealand, 1855-1904. Wellington: John Mackay, 1905, 10pp, original wrappers, 6) Reeves (The Hon. W.P., Agent-General for New Zealand), The Fortunate Isles (Picturesque New Zealand), Wellington: John Mackay, 1897, 24pp, plates and folding map, original wrappers, 7) Wohlmann (A.S.), The Mineral Waters and the Health Resorts of New Zealand: Part I - Rotorua, Wellington, John Mackay, 1905, 48pp, original wrappers, 8) New Zealand, magazine, s.l., s.n., n.d., & 9) Berry (The Rev. Joseph), New Zealand: At the Beginning of the Century, 1901 off-print, 73-104pp, adverts, original wrappers, the whole collection prefixed by Thomas Humphries' map of New Zealand, n.d. [late 19th c], repaired, 60.5 x 102cm, early 20th c institutional red cloth binding, their bookplates and stamps in places, 4to; Pamphlets on New Zealand, an institutional sammelband of five titles, comprising 1) Facts about New Zealand, n.d., folding map, original wrappers, 2) The Rotomahana Road Trip, Wellington, 1907, original wrappers, 3) Loughnan (R.A.), The First Gold Discoveries in New Zealand, Wellington: John Mackay, 1906, 110pp, original wrappers, 4) New Zealand: Department of Labour: Its Organization and Work, Wellington: John Mackay, 1907, 32pp, folding map, original wrappers, & 5) Handbook to the Labours Laws of New Zealand, Wellington: John Mackay, 1906, 61pp, original upper-wrapper only, with a folding letterpress table on Crown Lands and their settlements, repaired, early 20th c institutional green cloth binding, their bookplates and stamps in places, 8vo; Laurie (J.S.), The Story of Australasia [...], with a map, London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896, ex-lib binding and some neat stamps, 8vo; Sorenson (Edward S.) & Selden (H, illustrator), Life in the Australian Backblocks, London: Whitcombe & Tombs, Limited, 1911, frontispiece, in-text illustrations, original cloth, 8vo, (4)