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SHORTLAND, EDWARD [association copy] - The Southern Districts of New Zealand.
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SHORTLAND, EDWARD [association copy]
The Southern Districts of New Zealand.
A Journal with Passing Notices of the Customs of the Aborigines. London: Longman, Brown, Green etc, 1851. xiv, 315p, 32p [publisher's catalogue]. Complete with frontis, [fldg map], illust, 7 plates including 6 of maps [2 fldg], 4 fldg genealogy tables. 210mm.
Inscribed on endpaper, 'To the Right Honourable The Earl of Derby with the Authors best respect'. With book plates of W.H. De Luen & D.K.S. Kidd. In the original textured cloth binding with gilt titles, light fading, near fine copy.
Shortland as Protector of Aborigines, visited the east coast of the South Island in 1843/44 Including Otago whaling stations from Waikouaiti to Jacobs River, particularly J. Jones... The most significant general work on the region before the settlement of Otago. Bagnall 5162.
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