This sale includes rare New Zealand Pamphlets and early Maori printings from the original collection of Sir James Alexander Young who was mayor of Hamilton 1909-1912 and who represented the Waikato and Hamilton electorates from 1911–1935.
Other major items are:
• Joseph Banks’s Florilegium – New Zealand Section. Parts XXXXVii. Alecto Historical editions in association with the British Museum. 1st edition 1980-1980.
• Sir Walter Lowry Buller – A History of the Birds of New Zealand. 1888 2nd edition together with Supplement to the Birds of New Zealand. 1905, two volumes.
• Two rare hand coloured lithographs of Their Majesties King Rheo Rhio and Queen Tamehamalu of the Sandwich Islands [1824].
It also features rare and antiquarian books including those by Niccolo Machiavelli Les Discours and Le Prince [1571]; Daniel Defoe’s He Korero Tipuna Pakeha No Mua Ko Ropitini Kuruho… “The Life and Times of Robinson Crusoe” [1852].
