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List of items exhibited

 

Case 1 • Fine Bindings & Printing

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Hone Tuwhare, Piggy-back moon. Auckland: Godwit, 2001.

 

2

C.K. Stead, Kin of place. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.

 

3

Dennis McEldowney, A press achieved: the emergence of Auckland University Press, 1927-1972. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002 (two copies). Stk Z537.3/ A8/ M355

 

4

Helen Leach, Cultivating myths: fiction, fact & fashion in garden history. Auckland: Godwit, 2000 (two copies). Stk SB451/ LD83

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Tara McLeod, Specimens of wood type. Auckland: The Pear Tree Press, 2001.
Stk Z250/ SQ664


Case 2 • The Architects

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Francesco Borromini. Opera. Rome: Sebastiani Giannini, 1720.
deB Ie/1720/B

 

7

Christopher Wren, Parentalia, or, memoirs of the family of the Wrens. London. Printed for T. Osborn ..., and R. Dodsley, 1750.
deB Ed/1750/W


Case 3 • Chronicles & Observations

 

8

Hartmann Schedel, Chronicle of the world: the complete and annotated Nuremberg chronicle of 1493. Cologne: Taschen, 2001.
Stk + Z241/ S31/ S958

9

Jacob Elsner, Observationes sacrae in Novi Foederis libros. [Utrecht]: Jacobum van Poolsum, 1720-1728.
deB Lb/1720/E v.1.


Case 4 • Gardening

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Charles Evelyn, The Lady's recreation, or, the third and last part of the art of gardening improv'd. London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1717.
deB Eb/1717/E

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Jean de la Quintinie, The compleat gard'ner; or directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens. London: Printed for Matthew Gillyflower, … and James Partridge, 1693.
DeB Ec/1693/L


Case 5 • The Literati

 

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Thomas Dibdin, Valentine and Orson. London: Printed and published by Barker and Son, 1804.
deB Eb/1804/D

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George Saintsbury (ed.), Letters from Sir Charles Grandison. 2 vols. London: Allen, 1895.
deB Eb/1895/R


Case 6 • The Bard & the Apothecary

 

14

Charles Dibdin, The musical tour of Mr. Dibdin. Sheffield: Printed for the author by J. Gales, 1788.
deB Ec/1788/D

15

Nicholas Culpeper, Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; or, The London Dispensatory. London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1695. deB Eb/1695/C


Case 7 • Botany & Geography

 

16

Basilius Besler, The garden at Eichstätt : the book of plants Cologne: Taschen, 2000.
Stk ++QK41/ BJ24/ 2000.


Case 8 • The Earth & Beyond

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[John Barrow], A new geographical dictionary, v.1. London: Printed for J. Coote, 1759.
Sho. Ec/1759/N

 

18

Cornelius Gemma, De naturae divinis characterismis, Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1575.
deB Lb/1575/G


Case 9 • Darwin's Letters

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Charles Darwin, Letters to Dr John Denny, 9 and 22 July 1872.
deB MS. 55.


Case 10 • Animal Nature

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Baron Georges Cuvier, The animal kingdom, v.1 and 9. London: Printed for George B Whittaker, 1827 and 1831.
Stk GK/ C.


Case 11 • The Bird-man

 

21

John James Audubon, The original water-colour paintings…for The birds of America. [London]: Michael Joseph Ltd. and The Connoisseur, 1966. Stk QL681/ AW746 v.1


Case 12 • Renaissance Man

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John Cage, Rolywholyover: a circus. New York: Rizzoli, 1993.
Stk + ML410/ C24/ RR27.


Case 13 • The Satirists

 

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[John Hall-Stevenson], Makarony fables; with the new fable of the bees. 3rd ed. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1768.
deB Ec/1768/H.

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Christopher Anstey, The priest dissected : a poem. Bath: Printed by S. Hazard, 1774.
deB Ec/1774/A


Case 14 • Poems

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Tim Bobbin [John Collier], The miscellaneous works…containing his view of the Lancashire dialect. London: Printed for T. and J. Allman, and for Wilson and Sons, York, 1818.
deB Eb/1818/B

 

26

Josiah Relph, Poems. Carlisle: Printed by and for J. Mitchell, 1798.
deB Eb/1798/R.

 

27

Oliver Goldsmith, Poems for young ladies. Perth: Printed by R. Morrison, Junior, 1792.
deB Eb/1792/G.


Case 15 • The Landscape Gardener

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Humphry Repton, Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening. London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1803.
deB Ee/1803/R.


Case 16 • Inspired & Inspirational

 

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Robert Graves, Goodbye to all that. London: Folio Society, 1981.
Stk PR6013/ R35/ Z5/ A16/ 1981.

 

30

Luigi Ficacci, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings. Cologne: Taschen, 2000.
Stk NE2052.5/ P5/ A4/ 2000.

31

My double life: memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt. London: Heinemann, 1907. Stk PN2638/ B5/ A3


Case 17 • Yellowbacks

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Chester W. Topp, Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, 1849-1905. v.1: Routledge. Denver, Colorado: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 1993. Ref. Z1033/ Y44/ TN51

 

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_______, Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, 1849-1905. v. 2: Ward & Lock. Denver, Colorado: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 1995.
Ref Z1033/ Y44/ TN51


Case 18 • Local Connections

 

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Iolo A. Williams, Flowers of marsh and stream. London: Penguin, 1946. Stk QK306/ WP95

 

35

Christopher de Hamel, The Parker Library: treasures from the collection. Cambridge, England: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2000.
Stk ND2897/ C35/ C35.

 

36

Keith Maslen, Samuel Richardson of London, Printer. Dunedin: Department of English, Otago University, 2001.
Stk + Z232/ R55/ MC79.

   
   
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