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New Zealand.- Polack (Joel Samuel) Manners and Customs of the New Zelanders; with Notes corroborative of their Habits, Usages, etc. and Remarks to Intending Emigrants, 2 vol., half-titles, folding engraved map, wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignettes and illustrations, foxing and offsetting to map (as usual) and facing title of vol.1, bookplates and ink shelf-marks of Earl of Derby, Knowsley Hall on front pastedowns, original green cloth, spines gilt, a little rubbed and stained, spine ends slightly worn, [Hocken p.85, "illustrations and observations valuable and original"], 1840 § [Maning (Frederick Edward)] Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times. By a Pakeha Maori, first English edition, light water-staining to front endpapers, original brown cloth elaborately blocked in blind, rubbed and slightly damp-stained, [Hocken p.224], 1863, 8vo (3)

⁂ The first item is by the son of a Jewish painter who emigrated to England as a child and became a successful businessman in New Zealand in the 1830s, being the first Jewish settler in New Zealand. He wrote this book about the Maoris and their customs to encourage further emigration. The second is by another Maoriphile who moved to New Zealand from Tasmania in 1833 to work, eventually becoming a judge of the Native Land Court in 1865.

Lot 20

New Zealand.- Polack (Joel Samuel) Manners and Customs of the New Zelanders; with Notes corroborative of their Habits, Usages, etc. and Remarks to Intending Emigrants , 2 vol., first edition, original green cloth, 1840.  

Hammer Price: £400

Description

⁂ Please notice, the description of this lot has changed ⁂

New Zealand.- Polack (Joel Samuel) Manners and Customs of the New Zelanders; with Notes corroborative of their Habits, Usages, etc. and Remarks to Intending Emigrants, 2 vol., half-titles, folding engraved map, wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignettes and illustrations, foxing and offsetting to map (as usual) and facing title of vol.1, bookplates and ink shelf-marks of Earl of Derby, Knowsley Hall on front pastedowns, original green cloth, spines gilt, a little rubbed and stained, spine ends slightly worn, [Hocken p.85, "illustrations and observations valuable and original"], 1840 § [Maning (Frederick Edward)] Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times. By a Pakeha Maori, first English edition, light water-staining to front endpapers, original brown cloth elaborately blocked in blind, rubbed and slightly damp-stained, [Hocken p.224], 1863, 8vo (3)

⁂ The first item is by the son of a Jewish painter who emigrated to England as a child and became a successful businessman in New Zealand in the 1830s, being the first Jewish settler in New Zealand. He wrote this book about the Maoris and their customs to encourage further emigration. The second is by another Maoriphile who moved to New Zealand from Tasmania in 1833 to work, eventually becoming a judge of the Native Land Court in 1865.

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