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The first sale of 2010 features a diverse range of materials including books, pamphlets and ephemera, maps, photographs, postcards, and works on paper. more ...
Denis Glover
Short Reflection on the Present State of Literature in This Country.
1st ed. Caxton Club Press, Christchurch [1935].
$200+
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Edward Kidder
E Kidder's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, For the Use of His Scholars.
R ed. London c1740.
$800+
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Hone Tuwhare
Come Rain Hail, first edition.
1st ed. Bibliography Room, University of Otago, Dunedin 1970.
$100+
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Harold Sylvester Church
The Harold Sylvester Church Archive of Glass Plate Negatives.
c1900. A unique archive of photographic images, chiefly Maori social scenes.
$1,500+
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Highlights of the sale include: a collection of scarce Caxton Press publications, several illustrated and signed by Leo Bensemann; a large civic plan across two sheets of Victoria Park and surrounds, dating to 1908; a selection of uncommon Burton Bros and early Auckland photographs; a unique archive of glass plate negatives by Harold Sylvester Church; a framed sketch by William Swainson (naturalist) depicting a bovine against New Zealand bush; a copy of Edward Kidder's famous culinary guide 'Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, For the Use of His Scholars', printed around 1740; a tidy first edition of Hone Tuwhare's 'Come Rain Hail', published 1970; and an uncommonly fine collection of books on the subject of fishing in New Zealand.