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Turnbull Library Record, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1 November 1970, Cover Page

PUBLISHED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE TURNBULL LIBRARY

Two new sets of greeting cards, reproduced from prints in the Library, have now been issued by The Friends of the Turnbull Library. From aquatints by John Webber and after John Cleveley, respectively: Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound, February 1777 and The Death of Captain Cook, February 1779. Both cards are in colour, approximately 6x7! ins, and sell at 25 cents each.

Six engravings from the copper-plates in the British Museum (Natural History) made from watercolours prepared for Banks from Parkinson’s sketches on Cook’s first voyage. The subjects are: Kaka-beak, Koromiko, Convolvulus, Native Iris, Dandelion, and Tree Fuchsia. In black and white; the cards are 10 cents each.

Captain James Cook’s chart of New Zealand (1769-70), reproduced from the original in the British Museum by courtesy of the Trustees. Approximately 14 x 14 ins. Price 20c. Offprints of the articles on S. C. Brees in November 1968 Turnbull Library Record available 25 c.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS FROM THE ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY

Published for the Library by the Government Printer: McCORMICK, E. H. Tasman and New Zealand: a bibliographical study. (Bulletin number 14) 1959. 72p, plates 75 c. MARKHAM, Edward New Zealand or Recollections of It, edited with an introduction by E. H. McCormick. (Monograph series, number 1) 1963. ii4p illus. (some plates in colour) $3.00. BEST, A. D. W. The Journal of Ensign Best, 1837-1843, edited with an introduction and notes by Nancy M. Taylor. (Monograph series, number 2) 1966. 465 P plates (col. frontis.) $3.50.

Published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board: The FOX PRINTS and the FOX PORTFOLIO Three reproductions in colour of watercolours by Sir William Fox, two being in the Nelson area and one of Otaraia Pa on the Ruamahanga. Coloured surface of each, approximately 9x12 ins. $2.00 each, with descriptive leaflet. ALSO six other prints - Kaiteriteri; Lake Rotoroa: Tiraumea river; Tuakau; Hokitika; Pohaturoa rock - with a brochure by Dr E. H. McCormick. Edition of 2,000. Portfolio I4§x iß| ins. Sold as a set of 6, at $lO or singly at 3$ each.

The BARRAUD PRINTS 1967: Wellington 1861; Lake Papaitonga, Horowhenua; The Barracks, Napier. Coloured surface, approximately iox 15 ins. $2.00 each, with notes. The EMILY HARRIS PRINTS New Zealand flower paintings - Rangiora, Blueberry, Mountain cabbage-tree. Coloured surfaces, approximately 18 x 12 ins. Edition of 2,500. $2.00 each, with notes; set of 3, in illustrated folder, $6.00.

MAPLES TONE PRINTS Hawkestone Street, Wellington; New Plymouth; Scene near Stoke Nelson. All 1849. Format and price as for Emily Harris prints. The CYPRIAN BRIDGE PRINTS 1970 HMS North Star at the destruction of Pomare’s Pa, Otuihu, Bay of Islands, 30 April 1845; Capture of Kawiti’s Pa, Ruapekapeka, Bay of Islands, 11 January 1846. Format as for the Barraud, Harris and Maplestone Prints. $2.00 each; the pair, in illustrated folder, $4.00

The JUBILEE PRINT Encampment of the Forest Rangers, attacking Te Putahi Pa, on the Whenuakura kiver, Taranaki, 7 January 1866. By Major G. F. von Tempsky. Coloured surface, 12 x 17 ins. Hand-numbered edition de luxe, limited to 500 copies, in illustrated SIO.OO All Friends are entitled to a 10% discount, on request, on all Turnbull prints except the Jubilee issue (von Tempsky) which will be available to Friends at the special price of $7-50. (See also inside back cover)

Set in ‘Monotype’ 10 pt and 12 pt Bembo and printed by the Pelorus Press Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand