Auction for set of 2 books, very large hard covers, leatherette with gilt lettering, both with dust jackets; very good condition B/w & coloured photos; map; indices; glossaries of Maori words and architectural terms; illustrated epps

This is a lovely set

1. Historic Buildings of New Zealand. North Island. 1979 1st edition. NZ Historic Places Trust. Cassell, Auckland

Descriptions, history and photos (both interior and exterior): Northland homes and churches incl early Missionary Marae, tribal houses. Maori churches incl Northland, Putiki, Waiapu and Rangiatea (Otaki). Houses associated with Te Kooti Auckland house, churches, city buildings Buildings of the gold mining era Waikato incl frontier churches New Plymouth Wanganui and Rangitikei houses Hawkes Bay homesteads Wairarapa Wellington houses, city buildings, Old St Paul’s 271pp

1. Historic Buildings of New Zealand. South Island. 1983 1st edition. NZ Historic Places Trust. Methuen, Auckland

Descriptions, history and photos (both interior and exterior): Nelson houses Banks Peninsulas Bays; Akaroa Churches incl pioneer, Petre Lyttleton Provincial Christchurch, later Christchurch Plains; MacKenzie; limestone Oamaru West Coast: coalmining and gold mining buildings Otago: Free Church settlement; earth and stone, farm and goldmining buildings Dunedin: houses; commercial and public buildings; Taieri Southland Industrial buildings Gold mining towns 264pp

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