Rare Book
Thursday, 17 April - Thursday, 8 May 2025
A Poverty Bay Survivor (James Hawthorne) A Dark Chapter From New Zealand History
Estimate $200 - $400
Realised: $180 plus premium
Lot Details
Printed And Published By James Wood, Napier, first edition, 1869, 41pp, original printed front wrapper tipped in at the rear and later half dark green morocco, ex library, small repair to top right corner of title-page and introduction page, and taped left edge, TP grubby otherwise a good and scarce copy. An account of the Poverty Bay massacre of 1868 and the events leading up to it.
