Author: Edwin Stanley Brookes
Title: Frontier Life: Taranaki, New Zealand.
Description: Auckland, H. Brett, 1892 . First edition. Cloth. A very bright, first edition of this illustrated work on the early settlement in Taranaki, New Zealand, as documented by the assistant surveyor, Edwin Stanley Brookes. First edition. A superb copy, bound in the publisher's pictorial cloth. This work comprises a recollection of the surveys undertaken, their discoveries and importance, as well as historical detail regarding the province of Taranaki.The Taranaki Province was a New Zealand province until the abolition of a provincial government in 1876. It covered two million acres, making it the smallest province as well as the least populated.Written by Edward Stanley Brookes, an important surveyor for New Zealand as a settlement, notably being appointed Assistant Surveyor on the Taranaki Provincial staff in 1873. Illustrated with four double-paged sketches, four additional illustrations, and a frontispiece sketch map of Taranaki. Collated, complete. Bound in the publisher's pictorial cloth. Externally, excellent, with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd mark. Light spotting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with light spots to the first and last few pages, otherwise clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Edwin Stanley Brookes. Very Good Indeed .

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