Hocken - Prince of Collectors
Author(s): Donald Jackson Kerr
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 James Cook; along with the writings of Rev. Samuel Marsden and his contemporaries; Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the New Zealand Company; and Maori, 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.
Slight damage to rear lower edge
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Otago University Press
- : UNKNOWN
- : 1.12
- : 01 May 2015
- : 240mm X 155mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Donald Jackson Kerr
- : hardback with dustjacket
- : English
- : good-very good
- : 424