Bethunes@Webb's Rare Books

SUN 21 MAR 2010 - 12:00PM

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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 ...

Francis McWhannell
PH +64 9 529 5602 MB +64 21 232 6032

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.

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