Early New Zealand Books
6th Dec 2022 - Rare and Early Books
The collection of early books on New Zealand quickly becomes an intense study of the British colonisation of the country,
Sometimes you make a small find which gives you pleasure. In this case a very small find in an early New Zealand water colour by Gerald Butler Beere, no title, until we opened it up to restore it and found one on the back, and then a little gem emerged of Lake Waikare in the Waikato. If you have an eye for colonial water colours, you will recognise the palette with the characteristic blues and straw colours – did they all work with the same set of paints? You can see it and read about it here.
6th Dec 2022 - Rare and Early Books
The collection of early books on New Zealand quickly becomes an intense study of the British colonisation of the country,
8th Oct 2023 - Science and Thinking
Is plant anatomy and morphology taught these days? First year botany in the late 1960s had plant anatomy as the