C L Thomas Collection
Bethunes at Webb's is proud to offer the C L Thomas Collection of rare books and related materials. The Collection was begun by Thomas, a Napier pharmacist, at the beginning of the twentieth century and was subsequently extended by his son and daughter-in-law.
In addition to a profusion of New Zealand classics, the C L Thomas Collection features an important group of items relating to notable pioneer William Colenso, including books and pamphlets, manuscript diaries and papers, a collecting tin and a handsome dissecting microscope.
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Lot 1
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1980. 8vo. Illustrations. HC/DJ. By an unknown author. With some extracts from Agatharkhides’s ‘On the Erythraean Sea’. Translated and edited by G W B Huntingford. VG/G+.
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Lot 2
Cell, Gillian T (editor)
Newfoundland discovered : English attempts at colonisation, 1610-1630.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1982. 8vo. HC/DJ. VG/G+.
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Lot 3
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir
Problems of greater Britain.
London and New York : Macmillan and Co, 1890. 8vo. 738p. Maps. D367. Blue cloth. References to New Zealand. G to G+.
Est. $50
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Lot 4
Mackay, David
In the wake of Cook : exploration, science & empire, 1780-1801.
1st ed. Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1985. 8vo. 216p. HC/DJ. G+ to VG/G+ to VG.
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Lot 5
Magnus, Olaus
Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus : Romae 1555 : description of the northern peoples : Rome 1555. In three volumes.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1996-1998. 8vo. Illustrations. HC/DJ. Translated by Peter Fisher and Humphrey Higgens. Edited by Peter Foote. With annotation derived from the commentary by John Granlund. VG/G+ to VG. [3].
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Lot 6
Martin, R Montgomery
The British colonies ; their history, extent, condition, and resources. In three volumes.
London and New York : The London Printing and Publishing Company [J & F Tallis], c1850s. 4to. 33 plates, 40 maps. 3414. Half leather/brown cloth boards. Wear and soiling to bindings. Some soiling, dampstaining and foxing to contents. Bookplate of John M[acmillan?] Brown, Dunedin, on front pastedowns. Signature of same on title pages. Erratic pagination. A handsome set of this classic work, complete with splendid maps by Rapkin et al. AF. G. [3].
Est. $1000
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Lot 7
Valentijn, Francois
Francois Valentijn’s Description of Ceylon.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1978. 8vo. Illustrations. HC/DJ. Translated and edited by Sinnappah Arasaratnam. VG/G+.
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Lot 8
Barbot, Jean
Barbot on Guinea : the writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. In two volumes.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1992. 8vo. HC/DJ. VG/G+ to VG. [2].
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Lot 9
Bargrave, Robert
The travel diary of Robert Bargrave[,] Levant merchant (1647-1656).
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1999. 4to. Illustrations. HC/DJ. Edited by Michael G Brennan. VG/VG.
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Lot 10
Beatis, Antonio de
The travel journal of Antonio de Beatis : Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, France and Italy, 1517-1518.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1979. 8vo. Illustrations. HC/DJ. Translated from the Italian by J R Hale and J M A Lindon. Edited by J R Hale. VG/G+.
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Lot 11
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir
Greater Britain : a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867. Volume I.
1st ed. London : Macmillan and Co, 1868. 8vo. x, 404, 47p. Frontispiece coloured plate, illustrations, maps. 1602. Green cloth. Volume I only. References to New Zealand. G to G+.
Est. $50
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Lot 12
[Egerton, Alice Anne]/Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos
Glimpses of four continents : letters written during a tour in Australia, New Zealand, & North America, in 1893.
1st ed. London : John Murray, 1894. 8vo. xii, 291p. Frontispiece, illustrations. E96. Decorated blue cloth. G to G+.
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Lot 13
Froude, James Anthony
Oceana : or England and her colonies.
1st ed. London : Longmans, Green, and Co, 1886. 8vo. xi, 396p. Frontispiece, illustrations. 2065. Decorated light blue cloth. Much content relates to New Zealand. G.
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Lot 14
Froude, James Anthony
Oceana : or England and her colonies.
3rd ed. London : Longmans, Green, and Co, 1886. 8vo. xi, 396p. Frontispiece, illustrations. 2065. Rebound. Half red leather/marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Much content relates to New Zealand. A handsome copy. G to G+.
Est. $50
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Lot 15
Holland, Henry, Sir
The Iceland journal of Henry Holland 1810.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1987. 8vo. Illustrations. HC/DJ. Edited by Andrew Wawn. VG/G+ to VG.
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Lot 16
Jobson, Richard
The discovery of River Gambra [Gambia] (1623).
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1999. 4to. Illustrations. HC/DJ. Edited, with additional material, by David P Gamble and P E H Hair. VG/VG.
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Lot 17
Lobo, Jeronimo
The Itinerario of Jeronimo Lobo.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1984. 8vo. Illustrations. HC/DJ. Translated by Donald M Lockhart from the Portuguese text established and edited by M G da Costa. With an introduction and notes by C F Beckingham. VG/G+ to VG.
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Lot 18
Reeves, Edward
Homeward bound after thirty years : a colonist’s impressions of New Zealand, Australia, Tangier and Spain. Inscribed by author.
Colonial ed. London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1892. 8vo. xii, 337p. Frontispiece, illustrations. R393. Paper-covered boards. Rebacked. New grey cloth spine. New endpapers. Some wear to original boards. Inscription on blank: ‘E D Willcox / with kind regards from / The Author.’ A nice copy. G.
Est. $50
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Lot 19
Rodrigues, Joao
Joao Rodrigues’s account of sixteenth-century Japan.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 2001. 4to. Illustrations. HC/DJ. Edited by Michael Cooper. VG/VG.
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Lot 20
Schuver, Juan Maria
Juan Maria Schuver’s travels in north east Africa 1880-1883.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1996. 8vo. Illustrations. HC/DJ. VG/VG.
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Lot 21
Semenov, Petr Petrovich
Travels in the Tian’-Shan’ 1856-1857.
London : The Hakluyt Society, 1998. 8vo. Illustrations. HC/DJ. Translated by Liudmila Gilmour, Colin Thomas and Marcus Wheeler. Edited and annotated by Colin Thomas. VG/VG.
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Lot 22
Proceedings of the first session of the Twelfth Synod of the Diocese of Waiapu, NZ. Held at Napier, September, 1891. Together wi
1st ed. Napier : Printed by Dinwiddie, Walker & Co, 1891. 8vo. xii, 34p. Card covers. Some wear, soiling and foxing. G.
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Lot 23
The church missionary atlas. New and enlarged edition (the seventh). Part III. Ceylon, Mauritius, China, Japan, N Zealand, N-W A
7th ed. London : Church Missionary House, 1895. 8vo. 153-224p. Coloured maps. Blue cloth spine/paper-covered boards. G.
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Lot 24
Chapple, L J B and Cranleigh Barton
Early missionary work in Whanganui (1840-1850).
1st ed. Wanganui : H I Jones & Son, 1930. 12mo. 119p. Frontispiece, plate. C560. HC/DJ. An outline of the work of the Revs Matthews, Mason and Taylor with an introductory chapter on the Church Missionary Society’s beginnings in the Bay of Islands. G+/G.
Est. $50
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