N.Z BOOKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 11

N.Z BOOKS

KEEN BUYERS AT SALE

The growing in old New Zealand books was clearly illustrated at a sale held by J. H. Bethune and .Co. yesterday afternoon. There was a large muster of buyers and bidding was very spirited. There were also many bids by post, some coming from Australia. -

One of the most interesting lots sold was a Maori grammar by Lee and Kendall, published by the Missionary Society in London in 1820; This grammar was the first published, although an earlier incomplete work was published by Kendall, and is now exceedingly rare. Bidding commenced at £5, arid the book was sold at £8 .5s to Mr. J. M. A. Ilott. ;.. . ...-■ ...

Three colour prints .by. Chas. Heaphy, twp : qf old.Wellington and. one of Nelr son Haven, sold at £3 10s, £4 ss, and £5. - :

- Some of the books sold as follows:; — Robley's "Pounamu," 1915, £2; "Canterbury Papers," part 7 and part 8, £2 10s each; Builer's • "Birds,' 'first 'edition (rebound), £7;, Hochstetter's "New Zealand," £2 Is; Thomson's "Story of New Zealand," £1 10s; Taylor's "Te Ika/a'Maui," £1 15s; Cruise's "New.Zealand," first edition, and Savage's "Some Account of New Zealand," 1807, bound together, £5 Is; McNab's "Historical Records," two'volumes, 17s; Sherrln and Wallace's "Early New Zealand," 1890, 10s; Nicholas's "Voyage to New Zealand," 1817, £2 ss; S. Percy Smith's "Maori Wars," 1910, 17s; "The Maori," by Elsdon Best, two volumes, 16s; "Life and Times of Patuone," by G. O. Davis, 1876, 12s 6d; McNab's "From Tasman to' Marsden," 1914, 11s 6d; "Greenstone Door " by W Satchell, 1914, r 15s;' "Old Wfialing Days," by Eobt. McNab, £1; Field's "Ferns of New Zealand," 1800, 17s; "The Moriori People," 1911, by A. Shand, £2 Is; "Laws of England in the Maori Language," 1858, 10s 6d; Forster's Voyage Round' the World," 177G, •£1 2s; "Journal and Letters of Samuel Marsden," 1932, £1 Is; Gully's "New Zealand Scenery," 1877, £1 7s6d.