Twelve Years in New Zealand,

THOMSON (Mrs Charles).

Twelve Years in New Zealand,

with visits to the other Provinces, and reminiscences of the route home through Australia etc.

First edition. Lithographed frontispiece (present but detached). 12mo. Original decorated cloth, gilt, a.e.g., slightly rubbed and soiled, ownership inscription to title page, lacking front free endpaper. xiv, 226pp. London, Sampson, Low, Son, & Marston, [, 1867.

£150.00

The author arrived in 1853 and provides a highly detailed account of her time in Canterbury as well as visits to Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington. The work includes two chapters on Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Albany. “Interesting for the domestic and social side of Colonial life, and for her account of the hardships of the Overland Route to England” (Ferguson). Ferguson, 17072; NZNB, 5540.

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