THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.
With two maps and a plan. Pp. xvi+268, frontispiece plan, 2 folding maps, appendix; cr. 8vo; later half leather, spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, green cloth boards; uncut; later endpapers, book label of David Levine and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, a little minor pencilling, a few small edge chips or splits, small surface grazes to pages 156/7 slightly affecting text, a couple of faint damp stains, a little light foxing and soiling; Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1866. First edition. *William Fox (1812-1893) emigrated to New Zealand in 1842. By 1855, he was premier of the Colony, an office he held four times. 'Fox was associated with, though he did not initiate, what is widely regarded as the most iniquitous act of a New Zealand government. In The War in New Zealand, while still criticising the Waitara purchase, Fox blamed the new war on the M a ori and defended the confiscations' [Dictionary of New Zealand Biography]. Item #180043
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