Lot 433
New Zealand.- Angas (George French) The New Zealanders Illustrated, first edition, 60 hand-coloured lithographs, 1847.
Hammer Price: £7,000
Description
New Zealand.- Angas (George French) The New Zealanders Illustrated, first edition, additional hand-coloured pictorial tinted lithographed title, lithographed calligraphic dedication, list of subscribers, 60 hand-coloured tinted lithographed plates, occasional light marginal foxing but generally a very good clean copy, bookplate of Peter Dowding Prankerd, later ink inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary half green morocco, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine, [Abbey, Travel 589; Tooley 61], folio, 1847.
⁂ Splendidly illustrated work on the Maori depicting their costumes, dwellings, ornaments, weapons, customs etc. as well as views of New Zealand.
Peter Dowding Prankerd (1819-1902), emigrated from Bristol to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1839 where he acquired a vast fortune working as a land developer and mine operator.
Description
New Zealand.- Angas (George French) The New Zealanders Illustrated, first edition, additional hand-coloured pictorial tinted lithographed title, lithographed calligraphic dedication, list of subscribers, 60 hand-coloured tinted lithographed plates, occasional light marginal foxing but generally a very good clean copy, bookplate of Peter Dowding Prankerd, later ink inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary half green morocco, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine, [Abbey, Travel 589; Tooley 61], folio, 1847.
⁂ Splendidly illustrated work on the Maori depicting their costumes, dwellings, ornaments, weapons, customs etc. as well as views of New Zealand.
Peter Dowding Prankerd (1819-1902), emigrated from Bristol to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1839 where he acquired a vast fortune working as a land developer and mine operator.
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