Lot #241 - Froude, James Anthony
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Auction House:Webb's
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Sale Name:Bethunes Rare Books
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Sale Date:12 Dec 2013 ~ 12noon
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Lot #:241
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Lot Description:Froude, James Anthony
Oceana, or, England and her colonies -
Notes:New ed. London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886, 8vo. xi, 396 p., [7] leaves of plates, illus. 2065. Illustrated green cloth boards and spine. Publishers vignette to spine. Wear to corners and spine. Front free endpaper excised. Small inscription verso of frontispiece. Binding starting. Mild wear to contents. 'A world tour by the English historian Froude, his son and Lord Elphinstone to assess the performance of the British race in its 'other Englands'. Auckland and its dormant throne of volcanoes. Prof. Aldis, the scholar with a servant problem, Kawau and its omniscient owner Grey, J. C. Firth, Rotorua and the Terraces, decadent Maoris, the Russian scare and New Zealand's financial irresponsibility (p. 230-335). Froude's apt phrase and facility of metaphor only etched more firmly the shadow of his patrician disdain and made excuse for ignoring all but greater Auckland as unacceptable as it would have been a century later. The cacophony of protest, of which Edward Wakefield's 'Nineteenth century' article cited by the Hocken, was but one high note, echoed into the 1890's.' - Bagnall. G.
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Estimate:NZ$0 - 0
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Category:Books & Manuscripts
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