Mr Tradescant Lay, the Naturalist
1st Nov 2024 - Rare and Early Books
Another mid-19th C life of adventure. Naturalist on Beechey’s three year pacific voyage, aimed at meeting up with Franklin when
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.
1st Nov 2024 - Rare and Early Books
Another mid-19th C life of adventure. Naturalist on Beechey’s three year pacific voyage, aimed at meeting up with Franklin when
9th Sep 2025 - Rare and Early Books
Peter Auber was secretary of the East India Company in the 1820s to 1836. In 1834, he wrote an account