OLD NEW ZEALAND BOOKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1927, Page 3

OLD NEW ZEALAND BOOKS.

POPULAR WITH COLLECTORS. BULLErTS "BIRDS" BRINGS £19 10/. Collectinjr books on old New Zealand has become quite a popular hobby with a number of people, and auction sales are •watched tc closelv that very few bargains slip throuph. At Arthur's rooms this morning about thirtv volumes were included in the sale of book? from tht estates of the late Mr. Frederic Shaw and the late Mrs. Binney. Mr. Shaw was a brother of Mr. Henry Shaw, who has been so generous to the Auckland Library. The highest price was brought by two volumes of Buller's '"Birds." which contains many excellent coloured plates of New Zealand bird*. It was the second edition. Bidding went to £10 10/ before the books were knocked down. Among the other New Zealand books sold were Kirk"# "X.Z. Forest Flora." 26/: "History of Taranaki' , (Wells), 16/; 'New Zealand and It; Colonisation"' (Swainson). 2-?.'; "Wild Enderby" (a novel i. 4/6: '"New Zealand As It Is" (Bradshaw). 4/6: "Britain oi the South"' (Hursthouse). 14/: ••Recollection"' (Cox). 6': "Australian Colonies* •') 6; '•X.Z. Shell?." 3/: Taylors "New Zealand.* , 33 : "History of New Zealand" (Rusden). -V: "Rambi - Bv Tramp.*' 2/: '"Colonial Policy." , 12/: "Ena. or the New Zealand Maori"' (Wil?on>. 11/; "New Zealand" (Taylor). 23/; "Old New Zealand"' (Pakeha Maori). 6/; "The New Zealanders" (Craiki, 11/; "Reminiscences of the War in New Zealand", (Gudgeon). 21/; "New Zealand and the War*' (SwainsonU 17/; "Australia and New Zealand"' (Trollopeh 7/; "Six Colonies of New Zealand"' (Fox), 10/; '"Colonial Empire."' 22,/; "Tales oi the Colonies," 10/; Mitford's 'Tales of Old Japan." sold for 6/; "Anson's Voyage Round the World." 20/; and "Anson and Wilkes' Voyages Round the World." IS/.