Private libraries

Date: 1983

From: Alington, William Hildebrand, 1929- :[Architectural plans. 1950-1990s]

By: Gabites Porter & Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2006-058-422/424

Description: Shows perspective drawings of the general exterior of a single storeyed house with carport, the interior of the library, and the interior of the sitting room. Original file numbering was 004.01.15.002 Quantity: 3 plan(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink drawing on draughting film and diazo prints, 595 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1524 - To Photographic Archive - Photographs and slides.

Date: 1888

By: Lyttelton Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-AUCTION-1888-01

Description: Lists 277 books for sale at the auction, mainly non-fiction. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 11 pages, 218 x 134 mm.

Date: 1896 - 1903

By: Russell & Willis (Firm); Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: Eph-A-AUCTION-1896-01

Description: Lists 161 books for sale at the auction, as well as seven more handwritten, numbering up to lot 177. Includes fiction and non-fiction. Russell & Willis, printers, Cathedral Square, Christchurch. Two copies held. Dated by perpetual calendar and by the fact that P C Haultain died in 1896. Date previously suggested as 1903. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 6 pages, 214 x 138 mm. Transfers: Previously part of the collection of Joseph Kinsey..

Date: 1928

Reference: Eph-A-AUCTION-1928-02

Description: Lists 158 lots of books for sale, both fiction and non-fiction. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 4 pages, 220 x 144 mm.

Date: 1880

By: Pym, Montagu Charles Lamb, 1851-1905; Henry Wise & Company

Reference: Eph-A-AUCTION-1880-01

Description: Booklet listing 291 lots of books relating to law, dating from the late 18th to late 19th centuries. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, each 205 x 138 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2008.

Date: 1906

From: Ephemera and auction catalogues, up to quarto size, for auctions held in New Zealand]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-AUCTION-1906-01

Description: Lists items for sale at the auction, including the contents of the yard, carpenter's tools, scullery, breakfast-room, passage, drawing-room, three bedrooms, the bathroom, hall, dining-room (including provisions, china, cutlery, bookcases, gramophone, and the contents of the library. Evening Post print - 13888. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 16 pages, 280 x 107 mm.

Date: 1968-1994

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

Reference: Series-6817

Description: Comprises six published books by Orbell and her two-volume Doctoral thesis (1977). All feature varying degrees of annotation by Orbell. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 6 Monograph(s). Physical Description: Two hard bound typescripts, three hard bound monographs, three soft cover monographs; various sizes.

Date: 1916, 1974

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9919

Description: Comprises `Where have all the books gone?' by Pat Lawlor describing the dispersion of his library. Also a catalogue of books in the library, a bibliography of his collection of editions of `The Imitation of Christ', sample of his first bookplate (1916); catalogue of wine books sold to Williams Wines (1973); and notes re cuttings Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with annotations

Date: [1920-1933]

Reference: MSX-7137-7138

Description: Handwritten listing titled `Catalogue of New Zealand books' which includes publications up to 1933; one volume lists Maori works and works referring to Maori Source of title - Transcribed from volumes Other - See Back file : Catalogue of New Zealand books for additional information Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and possibly some mss

Date: [1975]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Further papers

Reference: 86-105-051

Description: Pat Lawlor tells the story of the disposal of his library, which includes describing his love of books Quantity: 1 folder(s). 48 pages.

Date: 1907-1911

By: Fowlds, George (Sir), 1860-1934

Reference: MS-Papers-3930

Description: Comprises letters acknowledging the receipt of books, pamphlets, catalogues and medals supplied to Turnbull by Fowlds while Minister of Education and containing comments on Turnbull's library and Fowlds' defeat in the general election of 1911 Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 1916, 1979

From: Rule, Percy Watts, 1889-1953 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0002-13

Description: Title continues:"...collected by the late Benjamin Hibbard esq". Contents are "Historia ecclesiastica", miscellaneous ancient books, Shakespeariana architecture and travel, art books and miscellaneous, portfolios, scrapbooks etc. Has notes added by Hibbard (1979). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopy

Date: n d

From: Hill, Henry Thomas, 1849-1933 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0172-054

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1836 - 1842

From: Wheatley, Sophia, fl 1830-1840s :[Collection of watercolours. 1836-1842]

Reference: E-028-q-016

Description: Shows the interior of a large room with supporting columns, one wall lined with book shelves. Two groups of people are seated on sofas and around tables on each side of a fireplace which has a large mirror above it. On one side there is a grand piano and in the foreground there is a desk, an ottoman and a display table. The wall above the bookshelves is decorated with a Greek-style frieze. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on sketchbook page, 210 x 285 mm

Date: 1869, [ca 1920-1930]

By: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: MS-Papers-6434

Description: Comprises corrected holograph and typescript lists of items in Warimoo Library; mainly first editions; books by Francis Thompson; by Katherine Masnfield; Alice Meynell; John Davidson; Tennyson; Michael Field (ie Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper); Bernard Shaw; and John Masefield Also letter from Charles [?] Clark, Land and Estate Agency Office, Christchurch, to W B [?] Mountfort re probable improvement in building specifications Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescripts

Date: 1947

From: The Graham Bookplate Collection; bookplates collected by David H Graham. [1500-1950s]

By: Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966

Reference: BOOKPLATES-Graham-NZ-B-01

Description: A bookplate showing the back of an armchair in which a figure is seated reading a large book in front of a fireplace. Other books are scattered around the floor. Currently housed with other framed plates exhibited in Barbara Blake's bookplate exhibition "Ex Libris; New Zealand bookplates 1925-1950", National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 1992 (BOOKPLATES-NZ-Framed) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 115 x 83 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1940

By: Rule, Percival Watts, 1889-1953

Reference: A-136-019

Description: Shows a figure in classical dress seated in the left foreground at the base of a fluted Doric column, reading a scroll. A collection of books both stacked and serried are arranged in the centre. At the right is another Doric column; both it and the one at the left are encircled with ribbon on which the names of architects are inscribed: (left column) Palladio, Vignola, Michelangelo, Vitruvius, Brunelleschi, Serlio; (right column) Wren, Inigo Jones, Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor, Chambers. In the central distance is a high square tower with small Gothic spires around its top. The whole is framed in a fluted border with formally arranged laurel leaves. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - P Watts Rule Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 115 x 90 mm.

Date: 29 Dec 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/4460-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm