Author: POLACK, J.S.
Title: New Zealand: Being a Narrative of Travels and Adventures During a Residence in That Country Between The Years 1831 and 1837 (2 volume set)
Description: London, Richard Bentley. 1838, First Edition. Half-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 2 Vols, pp.xii,403; vi,441, plus errata and list of plates. 2 frontispieces, 4 plates, folding map, 7 text illustrations. The plates are bound in different places than indicated in the list of illustrations, one plate is bound in twice. Ex-library with stamps on title pages and plates, the maps has tears and creases but is complete. Rebound with leather spines and corners, gilt titles on spines. Polack, member of a Jewish family with Australian connections, was in New Zealand between 1831 and 1837, firstly in Hokianga and then in the Bay of Islands. Much on journeys through Northland, particularly Kaipara, Waimamuku, Waipoua, the Bay of Plenty, East Coast, Uawa, Tolaga Bay, the missions, European land purchases and events of the 1830s. This book contains the first published reference on the extinct Moa. The frontispiece of volume 2 shows a whaling scene: "The North Cape New Zealand and Sperm Whale Fishery". Good.

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