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
Augustus Earle (1793-1838) was a professional watercolour artist specialising in colonial themes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from the age of thirteen and in 1815 travelled to the Mediterranean. He spent the next fifteen years touring the world and in 1832, when this book was published, was briefly employed by Darwin on H.M.S. Beagle, though he left that expedition in Montevideo owing to ill health. The first part of the book describes Earle's experiences in New Zealand, where he observed in detail the lifestyle of ...
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Augustus Earle (1793-1838) was a professional watercolour artist specialising in colonial themes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from the age of thirteen and in 1815 travelled to the Mediterranean. He spent the next fifteen years touring the world and in 1832, when this book was published, was briefly employed by Darwin on H.M.S. Beagle, though he left that expedition in Montevideo owing to ill health. The first part of the book describes Earle's experiences in New Zealand, where he observed in detail the lifestyle of the pre-colonial Maori and the early European settlers. The second part tells how in 1824 Earle, travelling from Rio to Cape Town, found himself left behind on the Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha and spent eight months sharing the simple life of the tiny British community there and tutoring their children until finally a rare passing ship took him on board.
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Earle, Augustus. Good. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. 16, x, 371 pages, frontispiece, 6 other plates (all present). Book is in the original grey card binding with a paper label on the spine, 4cm of the paper covering at the bottom of the spine missing. Old name Mariott on front cover and front endpaper. This copy has 16 pages advertising from the publisher dated May 1832 at the beginning of the book. Plates and text pages are clean. Augustus Earle (1793-1838) was a London-born travel artist. In 1824 he was forced to stay on the island of Tristan d'Acunha when the ship he was traveling on suddenly left while he was ashore. In 1827-1828 he spent several months in New Zealand where he met the Nga Puhi chief Hongi Hika. He also recorded travels through the northern parts of the North Island, meetings with Maori and missionaries. The plates show Maori dancing the war dance, the Haka, the New Zealand method of tattooing and other scenes and people.
Add this copy of A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand to cart. $1,750.00, very good condition, Sold by Lux Mentis, Booksellers rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1832 by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman.
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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman
Published:
1832
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English
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Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. An early and important work on New Zealand (Maori social life, Hokianga, etc.). Overall, a rather handsome copy. From the collection of Edouard Stackpole, renowned whaling scholar, curator of Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic, CT. 1951-1966) and director of the Peter Foulger Museum (Nantucket, MA. 1969-1986). Light shelf/edge wear, light rubbing to boards, light foxing at preliminaries and plates, tidemark at fore-edge of frontispiece, ownership signature at ffep and title page, binding professionally repaired (see separate restoration report), else tight, bright and unmarred. 8vo. 371pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
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