EARLY NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23093, 19 July 1938, Page 11

EARLY NEW ZEALAND

BOOK COLLECTION SOLD A VARIETY OF WORKS Only moderate prices were realised for works on early New Zealand Inst night, when a large collection of books mainly relating to New Zealand, Australia and the South Sea Islands was auctioned by Richard Arthur, Limited. Of about 300 items submitted, all but a few were sold. The collection did not include any outstanding rarities. Bidding was keen for a first edition of Alfred Domett's well-known narrative poem, "Ranolf and Amohia," 1872, and it was quickly knocked down for £1 6s. Ward's "Nelson, the Latest Settlement," published in London in 1842, the year of the town's foundation, brought £1 3s. "Sermons by the Lord Bishop of New Zealand as Curate of Windsor." printed for private circulation in 1842, realised (ss. Other items and prices were: — Carter, "Life and Recollections of a New Zealand Colonist," 3 vols., 18(iG, £1; Buchanan. "Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand," folio 1872. £1 Is; Sir W. Martin, "Lectures on Earl.v Church History to Maori Students, ' in Maori, 1863, lis; "Proceedings and Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 34 vols.. £o; Bracken. "Musings in Maorilaiid." 1890, 3 copies. 8s each; Tre< r ear, "Comparative Maori Dictionnrv?' £1 2s; Anson. "Voyage Round the' World," first edition, 1748. fully illustrated, £1 2s 6d; New Zealand pamphlets, 8 bundles, 14s: Swamson, "Auckland, the of iNew Zea- : land," 1853, 15®. J