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TAYLOR, REV RICHARD - Te Ika A Maui
Estimate:
$500 - $700
Sold
$550
Timed Auction
196 Rare Books including The John Mowbray Collection
Description
TAYLOR, REV RICHARD
Te Ika A Maui
or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, illustrating the origin manners, customs, mythology, religion, rites... London: Wertheim and Macintosh 1855. xiv, 490p, 6p of publisher's adverts, 8 coloured plates, large folding maps. A little light toning and a few spasmodic spots mainly on tissue guards and fore edge. contents generally clean, colour vibrant on the plates. 230mm, bound in the original dark green blind stamped cloth spine lightly faded, small loss to the base of the spine and short split in the cloth back hinge, else a very nice copy of the rare edition with colour plates and map.
Provenance: John Mowbray Collection.
Te Ika A Maui
or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, illustrating the origin manners, customs, mythology, religion, rites... London: Wertheim and Macintosh 1855. xiv, 490p, 6p of publisher's adverts, 8 coloured plates, large folding maps. A little light toning and a few spasmodic spots mainly on tissue guards and fore edge. contents generally clean, colour vibrant on the plates. 230mm, bound in the original dark green blind stamped cloth spine lightly faded, small loss to the base of the spine and short split in the cloth back hinge, else a very nice copy of the rare edition with colour plates and map.
Provenance: John Mowbray Collection.
Condition
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