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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  The C.L. Thomas Collection
• Sale Date:
  21 Mar 2012 ~ 12noon
• Lot #:
  144
• Lot Description:
  [Maning, Frederick Edward]/A Pakeha Maori - Old New Zealand ; a tale of the good old times.
  1st New Zealand ed. Auckland : Robert J Creighton & Alfred Scales, 1863. 8vo. xiv, 239p. 3343. Brown cloth. Rebacked. New endpapers. Corners bumped. Mild wear and foxing to contents. Maning first settled at Kohukohu, Hokianga, in 1833, moving four years later to Onoke, home for most of his subsequent life. The book describes the experiences and impressions of his first decade during which he was variously trader, timber and general merchant before, in middle life, recognition led in 1865 to his appointment as a judge of the Native Land Court. The book embodies his zest for life, his humour variously ironic or blatantly hearty, his friendliness with his Rarawa-Ngapuhi neighbours, before, with advancing years, his alternating moods of extravagant exuberance and withdrawn rejection of himself, his work and the Maoris acquired an almost manic-depressive character. Scarce. G.
• Estimate:
  NZ$200 - 200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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