A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (presentation copy from the author's father).

Name: A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (presentation copy from the author's father).
Author: Butler, Samuel.

Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 162, 32 (pubs. ads.); folding map frontis.; very good in the original plum cloth, gilt, faded on spine. A presentation copy “From the Editor”.

Dealer Notes

Hoppe 2. Butler’s first book based on his letters from New Zealand in 1859, where briefly he had become a sheep farmer; the book was edited by his father. Butler himself always disliked the book, and never allowed a reprint, despite its out-of-print popularity in his lifetime.

Author Butler, Samuel.

Date 1863

Binding Hardback, original cloth, gilt

Publisher London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

Condition Sunned on spine.

Pages pp. x, 162, 32 (pubs. ads.)

Price: £350.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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