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TERRY, CHARLES - New Zealand its Advantages and Prospects, as a British Colony.
Estimate:
$400 - $600
Sold
$320
Timed Auction
196 Rare Books including The John Mowbray Collection
Description
TERRY, CHARLES
New Zealand its Advantages and Prospects, as a British Colony.
With a full account of Land Claims, Sales of Crown Lands, Aborigines Etc, Etc. London: T & W. Boone 1842. xi, 366p, 12 b/w lithographic plates [including frontis], lacking the folding map. Marbled endpapers, contents clean, 220mm, exlibrary [Victoria Parliamentary library] in half leather binding, brown cloth boards with parliamentary monograms, blind stamp on title, no other library marks. With the book plate of William Rae, Happy Valley.
William Rae was a successful gold miner in Bendigo and was a founder of the Bendigo Art Gallery as well as a collector of rare books.
Provenance: John Mowbray Collection.
New Zealand its Advantages and Prospects, as a British Colony.
With a full account of Land Claims, Sales of Crown Lands, Aborigines Etc, Etc. London: T & W. Boone 1842. xi, 366p, 12 b/w lithographic plates [including frontis], lacking the folding map. Marbled endpapers, contents clean, 220mm, exlibrary [Victoria Parliamentary library] in half leather binding, brown cloth boards with parliamentary monograms, blind stamp on title, no other library marks. With the book plate of William Rae, Happy Valley.
William Rae was a successful gold miner in Bendigo and was a founder of the Bendigo Art Gallery as well as a collector of rare books.
Provenance: John Mowbray Collection.
Condition
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