Portraits of the New Zealand Maori Painted in 1844

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Portraits of the New Zealand Maori Painted in 1844

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Description

Author: Peterson and Mead
Format: Leather Bound
Imprint: AH & AW REED
ISBN: 9780589006624

Limited edition of 750 hand numbered copies. A magnificent work of art produced in 1972 as an original book to complement The New Zealanders also by G,F Angas which was originally published in 1847 and then reproduced in 1966 by AH & AW Reed.

This volume is a half morocco leather binding. Tall folio size so very big. 54.5 cm x 35 cm, Very minor wear and slight foxing on pages edges but beautiful and mint inside.

Modern text by G.C. Petersen, Hon D Litt and S.M. Mead. 49 full page clour plates plus coloured map showing Angas’s itinerary around New Zealand.An important record of many facets and artifacts of early Maori life.

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