A NARRATIVE OF A NINE MONTHS' RESIDENCE IN NEW ZEALAND IN 1827; together with a Journal of a Residence in Tristan d'Acunha, an island situated between South America and the Cape of Good Hope. By Augustus Earle, draughtsman to His Majesty's surveying-ship THE BEAGLE.

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FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 371, (1) imprint, (16) advertisements, engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), some light marginal foxing, contemporary black half calf, a very good copy. "Earle's crowded six months (not nine) in northern New Zealand gave posterity a double legacy. In his text a fascinating if not unprejudiced outline of Maori social life and custom and European intruders in the amalgam's most unsettled decade; in the sketches not merely landscapes but a series of reclining or posturing figures, the most striking of any visitor since the navigators' artists." Bagnall 1, 1757 Hocken p51, Bagnall 1757. N° de ref. del artículo 7931

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