Title pages
New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with the USSR :Photographs of the life and wor...
Date: ca 1855-1958
By: New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with the USSR
Reference: PAColl-0730
Description: Photographs and an accompanying booklet on Tolstoy's life and work to mark the 50th anniversary of his death in 1960. They cover portraits of him as a young man, his birthplace, colleagues and friends, his wife, productions of his plays, title page of Anna Karenina, annotated proofs of his novel The Resurrection, and illustrations from his novels. They are mostly copies of portraits and old photographs but include ones from 1958 of his birthplace museum, university etc. They are numbered and the numbers relate to entries in the booklet. There should be 47 photographs but 1, 23, 29, 31 and 33 are missing. Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s).
Sketches, scratches & daubs of country, men & manners from New Zealand by T.B.H
Date: [1846]
From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph (Rev), 1824-1886: [Three sketchbooks of New Zealand scenes and people. 1844-1847]
By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886
Reference: E-111-3-001
Description: Title page of third Hutton sketchbook. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) page. Physical Description: Red and blue ink on page of sketchbook, 175 x 265 mm
Burton, Clelia, 1878-1952: Album of New Zealand flowers &c
Date: 1897 - 1907
From: Burton, Clelia, 1878-1952 :Album of New Zealand flowers &c / C. L. Burton, Nelson
Reference: E-050-Title Page
Description: Hand-written title page to sketchbook, with flora-themed embelishments around the capital letters Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C. L. Burton / Nelson [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) as title page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink on tinted paper 225 x 180 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander H. Turnbull