Hocken: Prince of Collectors Author: Donald Jackson Kerr. SIGNED BY AUTHOR

Hocken: Prince of Collectors Author: Donald Jackson Kerr.

Publisher: University of Otago Press, 2015, first edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and inscribed to owner.

Near new with jacket, binding firm, some minor edge wear, minor marks. Jacket has some light shelf-wear with minor marks, chipping and fading. 424 pages, illustrated.

Dr Thomas Morland Hocken (1836-1910) arrived in Dunedin in 1862, aged 26. Throughout his busy life as a medical practitioner he amassed books, manuscripts, sketches, maps and photographs of early New Zealand. Much of his initial collecting focused on the early discovery narratives of  especially in the south. He gifted his collection to the University of Otago in 1910. Hocken was a contemporary of New Zealand's other two notable early book collectors, Sir George Grey and Alexander Turnbull. In this magnificent piece of research, a companion volume to his Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, colonial bookman and collector, Donald Kerr examines Hocken's collecting activities and his vital contribution to preserving the history of New Zealand's early post-contact period.

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