51 CLARKE, GEORGE [ASSOCIATION COPY] Notes on Early Life in New Zealand. Hobart: J. Walch & Sons 1903. 106p, illustrated. 220mm, original blue cloth with gilt titles. Light wear. Laid onto endpaper an inscription’ To my friend James Cowan from Gilbert Mair, Tauranga 8/9/[?] 23. Also a note tipped in verso of title page regarding the book, its scarcity and contents. $60 - $80
57 FITTON, EDWARD BROWN New Zealand: Its Present Condition, Prospects and Resources. Being a description of the country and general mode of life among New Zealand Colonists. London: Edward Stanford 1856. vi, 358p, [2]p advts, frontis [fldg map]. 180mm, bound green blindstamped cloth, gilt titles, faded. Epsom Trust plate 2493 $100
52 COLENSO, WILLIAM Fifty Years Ago in New Zealand. A Commemoration: A Jubilee Paper: A Retrospect: A Plain and True Story...Napier: R.C. Harding 1888. 49p, illustrated. 215mm, origial paper covers with the name of A.T. Pycroft on the front cover and with his notations at end. Some rust at staples else VG. Parr Collection $50 - $100
58 FOX, WILLIAM The Six Colonies of New Zealand London: John W. Parker and Son 1851. viii, 168p, this issue without map and adverts. Sprinkle of foxing on endpapers. 170mm original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt titles, VG. Contemporary notation on endpaper ‘Courtney Henry, Dec 1856 Philip Laing’. 2. William Fox - The War in New Zealand. London: Smith, Elder and Co 1866.xvi, 268p, frontis [plan], 2 fldg maps. Inside hinges glued. 197mm, original green cloth , gilt titles, worn. $100 - $200
53 COOPER, I. RHODES. [CAPT 58TH REGT.] Capt Cooper’s New Zealand Settler’s Guide. The New Zealand Settler’s Guide, A Sketch of the Present state of the Provinces; with a digest of the constitution and land regulations, and two maps. London: Edward Stanford 1857. vi, 159p, frontis [fldg map], 1 map, [2]p of adverts. Bound in limp original limp pink cloth covers, blind stamped and gilt titles. Housed in a 19th century book box. VG. Sensible business like account by one resident in the Colony for several years. Parr Collection Hocken 188 $400 - $600 54 DIEFFENBACH, ERNEST Travels in New Zealand; with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of that country. In 2 volumes. London: John Murray 1843. Vol.I. vii, 431p, frontis and 2 plates. Vol.II. iv, 396p, frontis and 1 plate. 230mm, bound in the original green blindstamped cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spines lightly discoloured as usual else a very nice set. Vol.I. outlines his journeys in the North Island with two chapters on the Maoris and whalers of the Sounds. The second chapter has extended treatment of the Maoris, their culture, traditions and grammar and flora and fauna. Bagnall 1599; Epsom Trust plate 1255. $800 - $1000 55 EARLE, AUGUSTUS A Narrative of Nine Months’ Residence in New Zealand, in 1827; Together with a Journal of a Residence in Tristan D’ Acunha an island situated between South America and the Cape of Good Hope. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman 1832. x, 371p, Frontis [port] and 6 plates [2 fldg], 230mm, text intact but pulled from spine first few pages, full leather binding, original period boards, rebacked on raised bands, title label and gilt. Earle’s crowded six months [not nine] in Northern New Zealand gave posterity a double legacy. In his text a fascinating if not unpredjuduced outline of Maori social life and custom and European intruders in the amalgam’s most unsettled decade... Bagnall 1757. Epsom Trust plate 1288 $200 - $300 56 EARP, GEORGE BUTLER New Zealand: its Emigration and Gold Fields. London: George Routledge and Co 1853. xii, 260p, frontis [map], [2]p of adverts. 160mm, original yellow papered boards, adverts on prelims and outside back cover. Chips to spine. A revised version particularly with inclusion of chapters on Auckland and the Coromandel goldfields. Parr Collection Bagnall 1770 $50
59 GUDGEON, THOMAS WAYTH The Defenders of New Zealand. and Maori History of the War. Being a short biography of colonists who distinguished themselves in upholding Her Majesty’s supremacy in these islands. Auckland: H. Brett 1887. 620p, 36p, colour frontis, portraits and plans. 255mm, original maroon half calf binding, cloth boards with pictorial gilt and titles, some light mottling to cloth else a very nice tight copy. Epsom Trust plate 0970. $200 60 HAWKSWORTH, JOHN An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by Order of His Present Majesy for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successfully performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis and Captain Cook... drawn up from the journals of several Commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. Second Edition, London 1773. Three volumes quarto, 51 charts and plates, including Bayleys Chart of New Zealand [short closed 2cms tear], lacking the chart of Otaheite. Tide marks on lower portion of pages in Vol 3. otherwise clean. Bound in contemporary gilt calf with armorials on front boards, spines rebacked, showing wear. Vols 2-3 deal with Cook’s Voyages, preface to second edition contains Hawkesworth’s reply to Mr Dalrymple’s letter critical of his account of the South Sea Voyages. Mitchell 650 $3,000 - $5,000 61 HAY, R.W. Notices of New Zealand. From original documents in the Colonial Office, communicated by R.W. Hay, Esq. Read on 9th of April 1832. London 1832, Extract from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. p. 133-136, one map of New Zealand, printed by John Murray 1832. 218mm bound in marbled papered boards with paper title label. Rare item. Epsom Trust 2505 $200 - $250 62 HECTOR, JAMES Handbook of New Zealand. Wellington 1886. [4]p, 120p, fldg table, plates and 2 fldg maps. Original paper covers, back cover detached. 2. William Bateman - The Colonist. A Work on the Past and Present Position of the Colony of New Zealand. Christchurch: J.T. Smith and Co 1881. 486p, 225mm, original red cloth, worn at edges. $50 - $100 63 HURSTHOUSE, CHARLES New Zealand, The Emigration Field of 1851. An Account of New Plymouth; or Guide to the Garden of New Zealand. And an article on the Canterbury Settlement. Third edition, Printed by D. Chalmers and Co, Aberdeen [1851?]. xv [1], 195p, frontis [map], a few notations. 185mm, contemporary green paper covers [tattered but complete].
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