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SAVAGE, JOHN - Some Account of New Zealand;
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Estimate:
$1,000 - $2,000
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$700
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Description
SAVAGE, JOHN
Some Account of New Zealand;
particularly the Bay of Islands, and surrounding country; With a description of the religion and government…
London: J. Murray 1807. viii, 110p, lacking the portrait frontis of Tiarrah, 2 plates [one hand coloured], [1] l., of errata and directions to the binder. 210mm, in the original contemporary papered boards with leather spine and corners. Ex Diocesan School copy and with the signature of Willoughby Shortland & dated 1839. The first account devoted entirely to New Zealand.
Shortland was New Zealand's first Colonial Secretary from 1841, after having arrived in New Zealand with Lieutenant Governor William Hobson in January 1840.
Provenance: John Mowbray Collection.
Some Account of New Zealand;
particularly the Bay of Islands, and surrounding country; With a description of the religion and government…
London: J. Murray 1807. viii, 110p, lacking the portrait frontis of Tiarrah, 2 plates [one hand coloured], [1] l., of errata and directions to the binder. 210mm, in the original contemporary papered boards with leather spine and corners. Ex Diocesan School copy and with the signature of Willoughby Shortland & dated 1839. The first account devoted entirely to New Zealand.
Shortland was New Zealand's first Colonial Secretary from 1841, after having arrived in New Zealand with Lieutenant Governor William Hobson in January 1840.
Provenance: John Mowbray Collection.
Condition
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