Von Tempsky Adventurer: A biography of Major Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky, 1828-68 by William Thomas Parham.

Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1969, first edition. SCARCE.

Hardback with no jacket. Boards are marked, faded, rubbed, and bumped. Paper has worn away in 2 places on front edge. Damp stain to back cover and some page edges near back of book, the rest of the pages good, minor marks, no inscriptions, binding firm. B&w frontispiece, and 4 colour plates from Von Temsky's paintings. Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky (15 February 1828 7 September 1868) was a Prussian adventurer, artist, newspaper correspondent and soldier in New Zealand, Australia, California, Mexico and the Mosquito Coast of Central America. He was also an amateur watercolourist who painted the New Zealand bush and the military campaign.

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