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154. Cooper i Rhodes. The New Zealand Settler’s Guide.
A sketch of the present state of the six provinces with…the
Constitution and Land Regulations, and Two Maps. Small
octavo, original brown gilt cloth, tear in frontispiece map, front cover
loose. London 1857. A rare well presented undervalued record.
Bagnall 1413
$600 – $1000
155. Earp george B. New Zealand its Emigration and
Gold Fields. Small octavo, map, original cloth, rebacked, T M
Hocken’s signature and Hei Tiki collectors stamp on title page,
Revised and up dated with the inclusion of chapters on the Auckland
Province and Coromandel goldfields. London 1853 Bagnall 1770
$400 – $800
156. Female Middle Class Emigration Society. Annual
Report October 28th 1862. Small octavo, cover title, 15 pages
including rules, report, subscribers list, Established by Maria S Rye
and others to assist the emigration of mainly governess’s. Colonial
Correspondents named in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide etc.
Emily Faithfull, Victoria Press, 83a Farringdon Street. E.C.
Signed and annotated copy ‘We have been sending governesses
Second Class-but in the future all ladies must go first class & I
reckon the expense at 40 pounds, as from sending continually
we shall be able to make reductions & arrangements with the
ship owners -M S Rye 7 June’. Apart from references in the
National Library of Australia no copies appear to be listed in
Australian and New Zealand library catalogues
$400 – $800
157. First Colony of New Zealand. Literary, Scientific,
and Philanthropic Institutions for the Benefit of the British
Settlers and Native Inhabitants of the Islands of New Zealand.
Caption title, 2 pages, 24 1 /2 cms. Signed First Colony of New
Zealand, 1 Adam Street, Adelphi July 8th, 1839. A named
committee of nine including Molesworth, Petre, Duppa and
Swainson to act as trustees for funds to be donated to establish
a public library, and museum and a dispensary or hospital.
Bagnall 1925
$200 – $400
158. Fox William. Colonisation and New Zealand. Small
octavo, cover title. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1842. An essay
written in support of the New Zealand Company written
shortly before his departure for New Zealand. Bagnall 2024
$100 – $200
159. Fox William. The Six Colonies of New Zealand.
Octavo, original gilt brown cloth, frontispiece folding map, top of
spine cover slightly chipped. London, John W Parker, 1851. Fox’s
leading role as an explorer, New Zealand Company agent and
colonial politician makes the book an important work. Bagnall
2035
$100 – $200
160. Fox William. For Private Circulation only. (On the
government of New Zealand). Octavo, cover title, 39 pages, rust
marks on covers. London 1852. As Honorary Political Agent
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of the Wellington colonists Fox visited England to make
complaints of Governor Grey’s misgovernment and illegal acts.
Earl Grey refused to see him. Fox then forwarded this minute.
Bagnall 2025
$200 – $400
161. Hawtrey Montague J. Justice to New Zealand,
Honour to England. Octavo, gilt half calf. London, Rivingtons
1861. A supporter of the New Zealand Company’s emigration
schemes with the ultimate aim of the encouraging the merger of
the two races on equal terms. Bagnall 2526
$200 – $300
162. Heale Theophilus. New Zealand and the New
Zealand Company, being a consideration of how far their
interests are similar. Octavo, gilt half calf, marbled boards,
cover title. London 1842. Carefully prepared criticism of the
Company’s scheme, its haste, disregard of settlers interests and
concern for profit. Bagnall 2547; Correspondence between
the New Zealand Company’s Land Purchasers and Earl Grey.
Cover title. (London 1851) Bagnall 1434 The grievances of the
absentee holders of land orders. (2)
$100 – $200
163. Hursthouse Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia,
The Britain of the South. Two volumes, octavo, original blue
gilt pictorial cloth, two folding maps and seven coloured views,
slight wear on spine covers corner. London 1857. An important
emigration work, records views of settler homes later burnt in
the 1and wars of the 1860s
$150 – $250
164. Hursthouse Charles. The New Zealand Handbook
or Guide to “The Britain of the South”. Small octavo, original
pictorial boards, frontispiece, folding maps, coloured. Ninth
Edition, London, Willis, Gann & Co 1862. Bagnall 2734 The
“Emigrant’s Bradshaw”
$200 – $300
165. Lang John Dunmore. New Zealand In 1839: Or
Four Letters to the Earl of Durham, governor of the New
Zealand Land Company, on the colonisation of that island and
the present condition and prospects of its native inhabitants.
Octavo, gilt half calf. London, Smith Elder 1839. Impressed with
the suitability of New Zealand for colonisation, critical of the
missionaries and Marsden. Bagnall 3069
$400 – $600
166. Letters from Settlers & Labouring Emigrants,
In The New Zealand Company’s Settlements Of Wellington,
Nelson, & New Plymouth from February 1842 to January
1843. Brown printed title wrappers, adverts. London, Smith Elder
1843. Bagnall 3140
$250 – $350
167. Martin (Samuel McDonald). New Zealand, Being
an Account of that Country with a full description of the
various settlements and natural productions of the colony, the