Travels in New Zealand, with a map of the country.
London: Smith, Elder and Co.; Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd: Sydney: James Tegg, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #45275
12mo. Pp. 174, 4 p. appendix, 1 p. publisher's ads. Coloured map frontis, folding. In later patterned purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to the front board. New endpapers, with printed bookplate of E.G.F Vogtherr. One gathering sticking out a touch, another wants to break free, but the contents are together and the book is clean throughout. With descriptions of New Zealand, manners and customs of the Natives, with accounts of Natives tattooing and cutting their flesh, cannibalism, feasting on American sailors, with a whole chapter of the The Wairoa Massacre.
Price (CAD): $675.00