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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Bethunes Rare Books
• Sale Date:
  15 Apr 2013 ~ 10am (NZ time)
• Lot #:
  93
• Lot Description:
  Gudgeon, Thomas Wayth The defenders of New Zealand : being a short biography of colonists who distinguished themselves in upholding Her Majesty's supr
  1st ed. Auckland : H Brett, 1887 1887, 4to. 620, xxxvi p. illus, plan, ports. Quarter bound with decorative boards and spine. Wear to coners and spine, rubbing to lower board. Binding starting, but still tight. Inscription to fly leaf. Foxing and soiling to contents. A serviceable copy. Plus, 'Two worlds : first meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772', by Anne Salmond. Inscribed by the author. (Auckland. : Viking, 1991). Considerable soiling to covers. Mild wear to contents. 'The Turanga journals, 1840-1850 : letters and journals of William and Jane Williams, missionaries to Poverty Bay', edited by Frances Porter. (Wellington : Price Milburn for Victoria University Press, 1974). DJ with wear and soiling to covers and contents. 'A Maori community in Northland', by P W Hohepa. (Wellington : Reed, 1970). Soiling to covers and contents. 'Maori origins and migrations : the genesis of some Pakeha myths and legends', by M P K Sorrenson. ([Auckland] : Auckland University Press, 1979). Wear and soiling. 'The story of Te Hono Ki Rarotonga carved meeting house and Hine-Matikotai dining hall, Pakirikiri Marae, Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand' [compiled by John M Mepham]. [Gisborne : Printed by Logan Print, 1969]. Wear and soiling. All generally G-. [6].
• Estimate:
  NZ$250 - 250
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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