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BUSBY, JAMES - BROADSIDE - Victoria Store, Victoria, Bay of Islands
Estimate:
$10,000 - $12,000
Sold
$13,000
Timed Auction
167: Rare Books
Category
Description
BUSBY, JAMES - BROADSIDE
Victoria Store, Victoria, Bay of Islands
Single leaf 320 x 295mm, no imprint. It is likely it was printed in Sydney on one of Busby’s trips. At the head of the document in a contemporary hand [?]Mr. Mrs Busby. Followed by a double column list of the General Merchandise, Hardware and Tinware and with the name James Fedarb, Agent at end. A rare pre-stamp document, addressed verso to Rev. A.N. Brown, Tauranga.
The Bay of Plenty or Fedarb Māori-language copy of the Treaty of Waitangi was one of two made by the missionary James Stack at Tauranga; the other has been lost. There are 26 names on the copy, all were collected by the trader James Fedarb, who sailed along the coast on board the 'Mercury' between 22 May and 19 June 1840, getting agreement to the treaty from chiefs at Ōpōtiki, Te Kaha, Tōrere and Whakatāne, When he arrived back in the Bay of Islands in June he gave the copy to William Colenso to pass on to William Hobson. In June 1841 Busby went to Sydney on the first of several unsuccessful attempts to raise finance, he had to mortgage the Waitangi lands to meet debts. On his return with his family to the Bay of Islands in November, despite insecurity they continued to farm the Waitangi property and Busby took up storekeeping as well…. Te ara.
A rare item of New Zealand history, no other known copy.
Provenance - Gerald Ellott MNZM postal historian purchased by him at auction in 1964 at Cordy's Auction House [Auckland] and believed by him to have been from the collection of manuscripts and papers belonging to Archdeacon A.N. Brown.
Victoria Store, Victoria, Bay of Islands
Single leaf 320 x 295mm, no imprint. It is likely it was printed in Sydney on one of Busby’s trips. At the head of the document in a contemporary hand [?]Mr. Mrs Busby. Followed by a double column list of the General Merchandise, Hardware and Tinware and with the name James Fedarb, Agent at end. A rare pre-stamp document, addressed verso to Rev. A.N. Brown, Tauranga.
The Bay of Plenty or Fedarb Māori-language copy of the Treaty of Waitangi was one of two made by the missionary James Stack at Tauranga; the other has been lost. There are 26 names on the copy, all were collected by the trader James Fedarb, who sailed along the coast on board the 'Mercury' between 22 May and 19 June 1840, getting agreement to the treaty from chiefs at Ōpōtiki, Te Kaha, Tōrere and Whakatāne, When he arrived back in the Bay of Islands in June he gave the copy to William Colenso to pass on to William Hobson. In June 1841 Busby went to Sydney on the first of several unsuccessful attempts to raise finance, he had to mortgage the Waitangi lands to meet debts. On his return with his family to the Bay of Islands in November, despite insecurity they continued to farm the Waitangi property and Busby took up storekeeping as well…. Te ara.
A rare item of New Zealand history, no other known copy.
Provenance - Gerald Ellott MNZM postal historian purchased by him at auction in 1964 at Cordy's Auction House [Auckland] and believed by him to have been from the collection of manuscripts and papers belonging to Archdeacon A.N. Brown.
