RARE NEW ZEALAND BOOKS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1934, Page 7

RARE NEW ZEALAND BOOKS

As already reported, an interesting sale of old and rare New Zealand books was held; by Messrs. J. H. Bethune last week. The following -were the prices obtained , for books other than those previously mentioned:—Adams's "Spring in the Canterbury Settlement," 1853. 12s; Augas's "Savage Life and Scenes," £2.15: Barrett's "Life of Rev. John Hewgill Bumby," second edition, 1853 los; Best's "The Land of Tara," 13s; Best's "The .Maori," £1 Is; Brodie's "Past and Pre- ■ sent State of.New Zealand," 1845, £1.8s; Broad's "Jubilee History of Nelson,": 1892, 13s; • Byrne's "Twelve Years' Wandering in the British Colonies," 1848, £2; Buiek's "Old Kew Zealander," 1911, 19s; Buiek's '"French at Akaroa," 1928, 12s; Buiek's "Old Manawatu," 1903, £1 2st Buiek's "Treaty of Waitangi," 1914, 17s; Buller's ■Birds of New Zealand," 1882, 10s; Butler's "Erewhon," 13s; Busby's "Remarks Upon a Pamphlet Entitled 'The Taranaki Question,'" 1860, £1 6s; Campbell's "Poenamo," 1881, £1 Is; Canterbury Papers, Nos. 1,-2,-and 3, 1850, £2: Carey's •War in New Zealand," 1863, £1 9s; , Cowan's "Adventures of Kimble Bent," 1911, 13s; Cowan's "New Zealand Wars " 2.y015., 1923; £1 Us; Cowan's "Maori Yesterday and Today," 1930, 10s; Crawford's "Travels in New Zealand,", 1880, 16sCruise's "Journal of a Ten Months' Residence," second edition, 1824, £4 10sDomejtt's "Ranolf and Amohia," 1872, £1 10s; Downea's "Old Whanganui," 1915,16sFeaton's "The Waikato. War," 1923 llsGorst's "The Maori King," 1864, £1; Gorst'g "New Zealand Revisited," 1908, £.1; Grey's "Polynesian Mythology," 1855, autographed, £3; Grey's "Polynesian Mythology," in Maori, 1854, £1 1r; Grimstone's "Southern Settlements of N.Z.," 1547, £2 7s; Gudgeon's "Defenders of N.Z.," 1887. lls; Heale's "N. 55. Company," 1842, £2 2s 6d; Hochstetter's "New Zealand," 1867, £2; Hodder's "Memories of ■ N'.Z.Life," 1862, 14s; Hursthouse's <'New Zealand," 1857, 13s; Lambert's "Story of Old Wairoa," 1925, 16s; McNab's "Murihiku," 1907, £1 7s; McNab's "From. Tasman to Marsden," 1914,195; McNab's "The Old Whaling Days," 1913, £1 3s; McNab's '•Hirtonßal Records, of N.Z.," £1 6s; Mariner's "Account of the Tonga Islands," 1827, £1; Melville's "Typee," 1876, lls; - Nicholas's "Voyage to N.Z.," 2 volumes, ISI7, £4;.Petre's "Ae-ount of the Settlement, of N.Z. Company," 1841, 12s; Po--1 nek's "Manners and Customs," 1840, £1 18s; Polack's "New Zealand," 1838, £2 17s 6d; Richmond's "Notes on Taranaki Question," 1861, £1 4s; Rusden's "History of N.Z.," 3 volumes, £3; Savage's "Some Account of N.Z.," 1807, £3 7s 6d; Taylor's "Past and Present of N.Z." (damaged) £1 2s; Taylor's "Te Iku a Maui,'Mßss, £114s; Terry's "New Zealand, 1* 1842, .£1; Thomson's "New Zealand,", two volumes.' £2; Wade's "Journey in N.Z.," 1842, £2 ss; Wakefield's "View of the Art of Colonisation," 1849, £1 4s; Wakefield and Ward's "British Colonisation of N.Z.," 1837, £1 4s.