RARE BOOKS
AN INTERESTING SALE
_ That old i New .Zealand books are much :n demand and are becoming increasingly valuable was proved yesterday .at a sale hei d Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. Ihe New Zealand portion of the catalogue comprised some 300 lots, many of them exceedingly rare. Bidding throughout was very spirited, and many of the books sold at high prices. ,The twelve parts of the Canterbury Papers, bound in one volume, published from 1850 to 1852, with the four plates, but having the chart-missing, sold for £10 15s. Angas's New Zealanders Illustrated, published in 1847, and a splendid copy, sold for £32. This work contains 60 beautiful coloured plates- on Maori life and scenes, with much descriptive matter. Captain Cook's Second Voyage Round the World, in two volumes, printed in 1777, containing numerous plates and rebound in full calf, sold for £6 ss. Dieffenbach's Travels in New Zealand, in 2 volumes, 1843, sold for £3 12s. This copy had a special, interest as it was once owned by Win. Colenso, who annotated it with very sarcastic marginal- notes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 15
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182RARE BOOKS Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 15
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