A transcript of New Zealand or Recollections of it by Edward Markham

Beschreibung

Transcript of a manuscript, 164 pages, with 32 hand drawn illustrations (some coloured), in facsimile of the original watercolour and pen and ink sketches (1834), finely bound half morocco, ex- New Zealand General Assembly Library with their gilt stamps on the front cover and spine. Mr Markham spent nine months in New Zealand in 1834. This copy is one of six commissioned by London antiquarian bookseller Francis Edwards in 1905. The advertisement for this book from Francis Edwards' catalogue is pasted on the front endpaper. Four copies are known. Three are held by libraries in New Zealand and Australia: the Hocken Library, the Mitchell Library and the National Library of Australia. Our copy is the only one known outside a library.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 011040

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

A transcript of New Zealand or Recollections of it by Edward Markham

Verlag

Francis Edwards, London

Erscheinungsjahr

1905

Sprache

Englisch

Einband

Half-Leather

Auflage

First Edition

Zustand

Very Good

Verkäuferkataloge

• New Zealand
• History