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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Bethunes Rare Books
• Sale Date:
  12 Dec 2013 ~ 12noon
• Lot #:
  285
• Lot Description:
  Gilbert, Thomas
  New Zealand settlers and soldiers, or, The war in Taranaki : being incidents in the life of a settler
• Notes:
  1st ed. London : A W Bennett, 1861, 8vo. iv, 220 p., illus. Decorative brown cloth boards. Gilt spine. Rubbing to boards and wear to spine. Hinges starting but binding tight. Scattered foxing to contents. Includes adverts. 'Gilbert, an Otama settler of nine years' standing and a friend of the Maori, describes most graphically the opening exchanges in the first Taranaki War around his farmhouse ; the killing of settlers and Maoris, the battle of Waireka, the destruction of his and other homes and his family's retreat to Nelson. Length appendices (p.[165]-220) reprint newspaper accounts of the later fighting to the conclusion of the campaign when Gilbert returned to New Plymouth.' - Bagnall. Scarce. Covers G-, contents G.
• Estimate:
  NZ$120 - 120
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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