Roland L Jellicoe (5 results)

Octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, small gilt illus to front board, patterned eps, x + 116pp, VG (owner's name stamp to fep, moderately heavy tanning & foxing to page edges, prelims & terminals, lighter foxing elsewhere).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Some foxing. A nice copy.; x, 116 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 210 x 134mm. "The guiding object is to place on record the history of those Native lands in the Provinces of Wellington and Nelson which were set apart by the New Zealand Company in 1840 as reserves for the benefit of the 'aboriginal chiefs, their tribes and heirs for ever.' The history of the New Zealand Company's reserved 'tenths' is bound up in the history of the New Zealand Company, which in turn forms an important chapter in the history of New Zealand. The man who planned this system of Native reserves was the man who founded the New Zealand Company and forced the British Government into annexing New Zealand - that great colonizer, Edward Gibbon Wakefield." - from the Preface. [Reference: Bagnall J96].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library, "Invercargill Public Libray". Library stamps and markings. ; x, 116 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 210 x 133mm. "The guiding object is to place on record the history of those Native lands in the Provinces of Wellington and Nelson which were set apart by the New Zealand Company in 1840 as reserves for the benefit of the 'aboriginal chiefs, their tribes and heirs for ever.' The history of the New Zealand Company's reserved 'tenths' is bound up in the history of the New Zealand Company, which in turn forms an important chapter in the history of New Zealand. The man who planned this system of Native reserves was the man who founded the New Zealand Company and forced the British Government into annexing New Zealand - that great colonizer, Edward Gibbon Wakefield." - from the Preface. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Wellington, W.A.G. Skinner, Government Printer (for) Native Trust Office, 1930 [first thus]. Octavo, x, 116 pages with numerous tables. Blue cloth stamped and decorated in blind and gilt; spine lightly sunned; edges, endpapers and initial leaves a little foxed, with scattered foxing; a very good copy. Originally published as Parliamentary paper G-I, 1929.

First edition. x, 116pp. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Decorated endpapers, inked ownership inscription to head of half-title, else internally clean and crisp. The first edition of a record of the history of 'those native lands in the Provinces of Wellington and Nelson which were set apart by the New Zealand Company in 1840 as reserves for the benefit of the 'aboriginal chiefs, their tribes and heirs for ever''. The system was planned by the director of the Company, Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862), a key figure in the establishment of the colonies of South Australia and New Zealand. Size: 8vo.