This is an auction for AN ACCOUNT OF THE SETTLEMENT OF NEW PLYMOUTH, by Charles Hursthouse Jnr.

A facsimile, published in about 1977, of the book first published in 1849.

"... New Plymouth was a planned settlement, initiated by the Plymouth Company in 1840 and later subsumed into the programme of managed colonisation promoted by the New Zealand Company. Underpinning that programme was a stream of propaganda designed to entice potential colonists. Charles Hursthouse (1817-1876), describing the Taranaki province, wrote that ‘a man whose life in England has been a constant weary struggle to maintain his situation, but who sees with bitterness that his children must descend in the social scale, may soon create a fine estate, and live ten years longer to enjoy it. Pursuing the theme of social elevation, Hursthouse suggested that in Taranaki a tenant farmer would ‘soon rise up to be the independent proprietor’, while even a ‘halfstarved labourer may revel in rude plenty, build his own house on his own land, and soon raise himself to comfort and prosperity’..."

Hardback. Undated, but about 1977.

192 pages.

Maps.

Very good condition.

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