The Establishment of the New Plymouth Settlement in New Zealand 1841-1843 Compiled by J Rutherford. VERY SCARCE. & W H Skinner.

The Establishment of the New Plymouth Settlement in New Zealand 1841-1843 Compiled by J Rutherford & W H Skinner.

Publisher: Thomas Avery. First Edition 1940. VERY SCARCE.

Very good hardback with dust jacket. Binding tight, gift inscription to ffep. Some scattered foxing mainly to end papers, pages very good. Orange boards have some minor compression to spine ends and corners. Jacket has some minor chipping, rubbing, creasing and marks, spine is dulled down. 274 pages Illustrations.

Being the journals of Henry Weekes, surgeon on the William Bryan; John Newland, passenger on the Amelia Thompson; Josiah Flight, passenger on the Timandra; together with extracts from the log of the Blenheim; brief notes of voyages of the Oriental and the Essex; accounts of the settlement of New Plymouth; the official passenger lists of the pioneer ships of the Plymouth Company of New Zealand; and list of other arrivals between 1841-1860.

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