LUCKY BUYERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 457, 12 September 1928, Page 9

LUCKY BUYERS

Auction Sale of Rare Books and Pictures A BRANGWYN FOR A “SONG” An exquisite mezzotint by Frank Brangwyn was sold for £6 at George Walker, Ltd.’s, auction rooms this morning. It was one of an excellent collection of etchings, aquatints, colour woodcuts, engravings and watercolours which was being sold for a Southern connoisseur. Many of the etchings were remarkably cheap. One by G. H. Dowd realised £4 ss, a coloured etching by Edgar Patterson found a lucky buyer at £3 15s, two stipple engravings by Dupont went for 15s, and a lovely Ce Los etching of London Bridge realised £5. Most of the English etchers and several Continental artists were represented in the collection. • There were three proof woodcuts by Leone which would have graced any collection. A Birket Foster etching found a purchaser at only £2 10s, which is much below his market value. Some interesting and valuable books were also included in the collection. One of the most valuable was Hamilton’s “Maori Art” in its orginal binding. Sir Walter Buller’s “Birds of New * Zealand” was another treasure much sought after by collectors. Hochstetter’s “New Zealand” does not often cofne on the market, nor does Williams’s “Missionary Voyages.” Among the other books were Algernon Charles Swinburne’s “Poems of Childhood,” with illustrations by Arthur Rankham, 50 reproductions of the masterpieces of Dan Dyck, Lionel Lindsay’s “Conraid Martens, the Man and His Art,” and several volumes of “Art in Australia.” Ten volumes of “The Book of a. Thousand Nights and a Night,” and seven volumes of the “Supplementary Nights,” were not the least valuable of this interesting collection.