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Auction archive: Lot number 24

ANGAS, George French (1822-1886). The New Zealanders Illustrated . London: Thomas McLean, 1847.

Estimate
£5,000 - £8,000
ca. US$6,409 - US$10,255
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 24

ANGAS, George French (1822-1886). The New Zealanders Illustrated . London: Thomas McLean, 1847.

Estimate
£5,000 - £8,000
ca. US$6,409 - US$10,255
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

ANGAS, George French (1822-1886). The New Zealanders Illustrated . London: Thomas McLean, 1847. First edition of 'one of the most important collections of New Zealand prints' (Ellis). Son of George Fife Angas, a founding colonist of South Australia, Angas was an accomplished artist and naturalist who travelled through New Zealand in 1844. He realised that the Maori culture was in danger of disappearing with the arrival of European immigrants, and decided to create the present book as a record of the peoples he met on his travels. He states in the preface: 'Up to the present time, the New Zealander ... has never been carefully and faithfully portrayed; and his habits, costumes, and works of art, though so rapidly disappearing before the progress of Christianity and Civilization, are yet unrecorded by the pencil of the artist'. Abbey Travel 589; Colas 132; Ellis, Early Prints of New Zealand , pp.113-120; Hocken p.129-31 ('rare'); Tooley 61. Folio (542 x 368 mm). Hand-coloured additional lithographic title, lithographic dedication to Prince Albert, 2pp. list of subscribers, 60 hand-coloured tinted lithographic plates (additional title and pl. 60 with tiny marginal tears without loss, scattered variable spotting throughout). Early 20th-century red half morocco, top edge gilt (extremities lightly rubbed and faded, front inner hinge slightly loose).

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
29 Oct 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

ANGAS, George French (1822-1886). The New Zealanders Illustrated . London: Thomas McLean, 1847. First edition of 'one of the most important collections of New Zealand prints' (Ellis). Son of George Fife Angas, a founding colonist of South Australia, Angas was an accomplished artist and naturalist who travelled through New Zealand in 1844. He realised that the Maori culture was in danger of disappearing with the arrival of European immigrants, and decided to create the present book as a record of the peoples he met on his travels. He states in the preface: 'Up to the present time, the New Zealander ... has never been carefully and faithfully portrayed; and his habits, costumes, and works of art, though so rapidly disappearing before the progress of Christianity and Civilization, are yet unrecorded by the pencil of the artist'. Abbey Travel 589; Colas 132; Ellis, Early Prints of New Zealand , pp.113-120; Hocken p.129-31 ('rare'); Tooley 61. Folio (542 x 368 mm). Hand-coloured additional lithographic title, lithographic dedication to Prince Albert, 2pp. list of subscribers, 60 hand-coloured tinted lithographic plates (additional title and pl. 60 with tiny marginal tears without loss, scattered variable spotting throughout). Early 20th-century red half morocco, top edge gilt (extremities lightly rubbed and faded, front inner hinge slightly loose).

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
29 Oct 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
London
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