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Amassing Treasures for All Times - Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector by Donald Jackson Kerr
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. Brilliant and inscrutable, Grey, who was in contact with key Victorians from Darwin to Whately throughout his life, played a central role in overseeing ...Show more
Frank W Reed and his Dumas Collection by Donald Kerr
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: near fine
Hocken - Prince of Collectors by Donald Jackson Kerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Dr Thomas Morland Hocken (1836-1910) arrived in Dunedin in 1862, aged 26. Throughout his busy life as a medical practitioner he amassed books, manuscripts, sketches, maps and photographs of early New Zealand. Much of his initial collecting focused on the early discovery narratives of James Cook; along w ...Show more
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