Introduction Hocken (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later edition. Later edition (1930), originally published in 1863. Book has a short tear on upper rear gutter, some color fade to spine, wear to spine ends and light rubbing to gutter areas and corners. Illustrated with drawings. Introduction by Hocken from 1906. Book has gone through many printings with additions and subtractions of material. This volume includes "Old New Zealand" "Heke's War in the North of New Zealand" and "Maori Traditions".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.blue cloth covered boards with black stamped border and titles on cover and spine, protected frontispiece; illustrated endpapers are toned, last page slightly stained, owner's names on 2nd free endpaper, otherwise tight, clean and unmarked, rare thus 1st edition assumed, no copyright information, date on title page with publisher H2f.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Previous owner's rubber name stamp on front endpaper " F G Greenslade / Anama". A 50 x 20mm chip to front flap of dust-jacket. Some tears to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover. A nice copy of this edition, hard to find in a dust-jacket.; Uncommon in dust-jacket. xxix, [3], 352 pages + frontispiece + 16 illustrations on 15 plate leaves. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Black double border to front board. Page dimensions: 185 x 120mm. Selected contents: First view of New Zealand; A Maori Chief's notions of trading in the Old Times; The Market Price of a Pakeha; Maori Mermaids; Maori Law; How I Purchased my Estate; The Muru; The Tapu; The Law of Muru; The Tapu Tohunga; The Maori Oracle; The Storming of Mokoia; Hongi Ika; Ancient FortsTrading in the Old times; Rule Britannia. Illustrated advertisements for other titles on flaps and rear panel of dust-jacket. The advertisements are for "The Adventures of Kimble Bent" by James Cowan on the front flap, "An Old New Zealander or Te Rauparaha" by T. Lindsay Buick on the rear flap, and "The Maoris of New Zealand" by James Cowan on the rear panel. Colophon: Unwin Brothers, Limited, The Gresham Press, Woking and London. [Reference: Bagnall M757 - "Edition of 2,500 copies."].…