Author: RUTHERFORD, J; SKINNER, W. H; Compilers and Editors.
Title: The Establishment of the New Plymouth Settlement in New Zealand 1841-1843: being the Journals of Henry Weeks, surgeon on the William Bryan; John Newland, passenger on the Amelia Thompson; Josiah Flight, passenger on the Timandra; together with extracts from the Log of the Blenhein; Brief notes of voyages of the Settlement of New Plymouth; The official passenger List of the pioneer ships of the Plymouth Company of New Zealand; and list of other arrivals between 1841-1860.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. xx, 274; portrait frontispiece 'Fredrick Alonzo Carrington", text with 12 b/w illustrations, index, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in black on spine, dustjacket with minor chips on edges, very good copy. New Plymouth, NZ; Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd.; 1940.

Keywords: New Zealand History Matirime Ships South Pacific Region