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Published by Phoenix Publishing (1981), Miami, FL 1981
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Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Miami, FL: Phoenix Publishing. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1981). . Paperback. 8vo., 139 pp., missing blank flyleaf, rubbed . Color Plates (illustrator).
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Geology Of The Provinces Of Canterbury And Westland, New Zealand: A Report Comprising The Results Of Official Explorations. Book.
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More imagesPublished by Phoenix Publishing Co 1981
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Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, U.S.A.Chamblin Bookmine
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. 8vo. Condition: Good. 1st edition. This assumed first edition (no other dates listed) has dark covers with clean white titling. Edges are lightly chipped with creased corners. Creases along the hinges. Business card lightly glued to front cover. Old price sticker remains on lower back cover. Spine is lightly creased n…ear the head with rubbed edges. Text block is square with toned edges. Binding is tight.139p. End pages have some toning present with glue exposed in gutter. Interior otherwise unmarked including colored photos through out.
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Published by Self Published, Wellington, New Zealand 1948
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Detailed and thorough study with a forward by Gilbert Archie. Contents include Journeys with Hochstetter in Auckland and Nelson regions, geology of ancient Canterbury, people of Canterbury, exploration of rivers Rangitata and Ashburton, Southern Alps, West…Coast gold and glaciers, gold rushes, Moa and Moa hunters, Maori curios, Glaciers and Volcanoes of Banks Peninsula, his educational persuits and his home life, influential friends, papers and correspondences. CONDITION Blue cloth with gilt tiles, ex library with minimal markings and presentation label to Nelson Girls College (partially removed along with library pockets at rear). Pp xxi (1) 1,142, illus, 21 plates (3 plates named in index being plates 7, 9 & 10 weren't ready in time for publication) and 4 folding maps bound in at rear. Copy is bright and tight, original DJ in plastic cover, has tear top front tape repaired, chips to spine ends and tips, tape ghosting to covers and end pages. OVERWEIGHT Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Published by H F Von Haast, Wellington, NZ 1948
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Add to basketThe Life and Times of Sir Julius von Haast: Explorer, Geologist, Museum Builder BY H F von Haast. Publisher: H F Von Haast, Wellington, 1948, First Edition. Good hardback with no jacket, some minor rubbing, chipping, bumping, fading and marks, creasing to spine, name to ffep, light tanning and foxing, pages good, a little wrinkl…ing, creasing, and chipping, minor marks, abrasion to ffep, and rear end-paper. Four fold-out maps at rear, map 1 has a closed tear in margin, the rest are very good. 1142 pages, illustrated. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand. HEAVY BOOK THAT MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COSTS OUTSIDE OF NEW ZEALAND.
Language: English
Published by H F Von Haast, Wellington 1948
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Add to basketOrig. Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Wrapper Very Good. First Edition. pp. 1142. Frontis (portrait), plates, folding maps. Fine blue cloth in very good protected d/w.
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 15. Printed at the Office of the Guardian & Times Coy. Ltd., Hokitika. Yellow soft covers ares rubbed, corners thumbed. They show some wear, and are discoloured towards edges. They bear some minor marks/stains, and some creasing. Pages are thumbed, and discoloured towards edges. Else book…is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.
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Published by Printed by C. and J. Elliott, Nelson, New Zealand 1861
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Printed by C. and J. Elliott under authority of the Provincial Government. 1861, 1st Edition. slim 8vo. pp150. Hardcover no dust jacket. Rebound in green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, (original wrappers not bound in) with London Zoological Society of London g…ilt stamp to bottom front board. Binding in very good condition with a little shelf wear to head and tail of spine and small tape mark bottom of spine. Inside title page a little loose with small chip missing, all other pages in very good condition if a little yellowed with age.
Published by H F von Haast 1948 1948
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Add to basketLACKS D/W, super octavo, blue buckram boards, orange lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxi + 1142pp, folding maps to rear, VG+ (sl fading to spine, sl rubbing to extrems, minor tanning & soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional sl cracking to gutters).
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Published by Printed at the "Times" Office, Christchurch 1879
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. ix, 486 pages, frontispiece and many maps and illustrations (all present). Modern rebinding, a few pages at the back have brown stains on the edges.
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Published by The Times, Christchurch 1879
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Add to basketOriginal Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp ix, 486. A classic work on physical geography in the South Island complete with numerous maps and diagrams and panoramas of the landscape. Extremely rare, complete copy, very good copy in original cloth. NZNB 2391.
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Published by J.E. Fitzgerald, NZ 1867
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Add to basketReport on the Headwaters of the River Rakaia with twenty illustrations, a map, and three appendices (TITLE AS PER FRONT COVER) by Julius Haast. Printed by J.E. Fitzgerald, Christchurch, 1867. Publishing page says 1866 AND HAS THE TITLE with twenty illustrations and two appendices , front cover says printed 1867 and in fact there… are twenty illustrations, a map, and three appendices. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. VERY RARE. Card covered book, binding a bit loose, creased marked and chipped, name written on front cover, covers are heavily stained with paper chipped and lifting from cover. There is some water damage which is worse near rear of book. Some foxing, marks and wrinkling to pages with small dark damp stain in bottom corner. Pages and illustrations at rear have large light water stains. No pages are stuck together and the text is readable. Fold-out map at front of book is dated 1867, and in good condition. All 20 illustrations are present, the large fold-out section has a closed tear to edge which joins into book. Illustrations 8 & 9 are shown as 8A and 8B on the fold-out diagram sheet. This is a geological and topographical survey of the Rakaia and its tributaries, the report details Haast's 1865-66 expedition, features twenty illustrations (including coloured lithographs of his watercolour paintings), and includes three appendices and a map. It is a significant scientific document from the Canterbury region of New Zealand, commissioned to map the area's physical characteristics. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.
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Published by The Press, Christchurch 1864
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Includes a collection of important surveys, reports, etc by Haast and others. Formation of the Canterbury Plains with hand-coloured geological sketch map with 2 related fold-out plans,1864; Headwaters of the river Rakaia, fold-out image and 20 fine colour lithographs plus comparative diagram show…ing sections of the 5 routes from the West to East coast,1866; Report on the plains and rivers of Canterbury (by W Doyne), 1864, includes 3 folding plans; Second report upon the river Waimakariri in the lower plains, Canterbury (by W Doyne), Christchurch, 1865, fold-out plan; Report upon the practicability of constructing a road through the Otira Gorge (by Edward Dobson), 1865, 13 folding plans illustrating the suggested route, plus 29 lithographed views. This item belonged to John Davies Enys, presented from Dr Haast "John D Enys from Dr Haast". The endpaper includes Eny's signature and bookplate. An extremely rare and important item, bound in contemporary half roan and marbled boards. John Enys was a Canterbury runholder who owned Castle Hill and was most notable for pursuing an active interest in natural history and geology, accompanying his close friend Haast on some of his expeditions, and making significant collections of plants, moa fossils and other artefacts.
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1886 edition.… NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 20 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Published by H F von Haast 1948
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Good. Geologist of the province of Canterbury and the Southern Alps in the 1860s. Heavy; No DJ. Blue boards with title on spine; blue boards bumped at corner; minor tanning. 1142 pages.
Published by H F von Haast 1948 1948
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Add to basketFIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, blu etextured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxi + 1142pp, illus, folding maps to rear, VG+ (minor bruising to extrems, light soiling to spine & boards/edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light insect damage to front pastedown, minor wrinkling & foxin…g to folding maps at rear) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy chipping & loss/tape repairs to edges, light tanning & moderate wrinkling to spine- minor loss, moderate tanning & soiling).
The Life and Times of Sir Julius Von Haast, K.C.M.G., Ph.D., D.SC., F.R.S., Explorer, Geologist, Museum Builder
Haast, H.F. Von, M.A., LL.B., Sometime Pro-Chancellor of the University of New Zealand
Published by H.F. von Haast, New Zealand 1948
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Add to basketHb. Condition: VG. None. First Edition. Clean blue pebbled cloth on boards with gilt title and gilt band. Spine: head & foot with light bumping, light rubbing and couple of tiny cracks to foot. Boards extremeties: tiny indent to front top and bottom edges; light rubbing to bottom edges. Edges: moderately aged yellow; small light… smudges to bottom edge. Frontis: b/w photograph of Sir Julius von Haast about 1863. Refp with fldg maps of: 1.Topographical Map of Central & Westernpart of the Province of Nelson; 2. Province of Canterbury 3. Map of the Southern Alps 4. Map of Province of Canterbury with scale. All clean & intact. Binding is As New 1142p Heavy book: nearly 2 kgs.
Published by Royal Geographical Society 1870
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Add to basketpp.(433-442). Colour folding map. Disbound, enclosed in black wrapps. with clear film. Extracted from Volume XL. of the Journal of the Royal Geographic Society. US$74.
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Published by The Phoenix Publishing Co., Miami 1981
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 139 pages. SIGNED and inscribed by Bill Haast (of the Miami Serpentarium) on the front free endpaper. Signed by Author(s). Book.
More imagesPublished by Christchurch Press, Christchurch 1864
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Add to basketCard Covers. Condition: Fair. pp 63. Large folding, coloured geological section maps (Sections across the Canterbury Plains: Sections Parallel to the Rivers of the Canterbury Plains - Rangitata, Rakaia, Waimakariri) Lacks geological sketch map, but retains the 2 best maps. Original card covers with cloth spine. Considerable stai…ning to cover, internally good. Rare.
Published by Printed by C. and J. Elliott, Nelson 1861
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library, General Assembly Library of New Zealand, Parliamentary Library, New Zealand Collection. Library stamps, labels and markings. Brown half-calf leather binding with gilt lettering on spine. Joints rubbed. Abarsions to leather. The original green printed paper w…rappers are not present. Burgundy pebble grain cloth boards. Gilt stamps of the General Assembly New Zealand Library at tail of spine and on front board. Page edges sprinkled red. ; Uncommon. (iii)-viii, 150 pages. Half-calf binding. Page dimensions: 211 x 131mm. Spine title: "WESTERN DISTRICTS OF NELSON. HAAST." "Yesterday evening I had set fire to the high fern before us in order to have an easier walk with our heavy loads, and during the night it was a splendid sight to see the surrounding country in flames, the ti trees amongst the fern appearing like distinct columns of fire." - pages 19-20. "Before starting, I had rather a stormy scene with the native whom I had engaged at the Mawhera pah, because I would not permit him to select his own load, but compelled him, as was fair, to take that which was determined to be his by lot. To this he would not submit, and seizing the paddles, he attempted to take the canoe, which did not belong to him, and return to the pah. It is scarcely necessary to assert that I objected strongly to his proceedings, and it was only after considerable time that I could bring him back to his duty." - page 33. "The river bed was here very narrow, all before and around us were breakers formed by the rushing of the torrent over snags, which encumbered the river in every direction. We travelled at the rate of ten miles an hour at the least, and all the skill and energy of the Maories were required to guide the canoe safely through: not a word was spoken, everyone looked before him, expecting each moment that the canoe would be dashed to pieces agains a tree." - page 42. "[. . .] arrived at the famous cliff of the Miko. As this cliff is not merely perpendicular, but in some places overhangs, the Maories have constructed two ladders, one fifteen feet, and the other thirty-one feet in length, and consisting of pieces of rata lashed together with flax, the steps being placed at irregular intervals." - pages 47-48. "I was much interested here on observing the tracks of numerous kakapos, or night parrots, which seemed to lead a tranquil life, unmolested by wild dogs, by which these beautiful birds have almost been extirpated in other places, existing now only on the mountain tops and in a few very remote valleys." - page 57. "No large myriapode came within my observation, and the few ants which we met with occasionally were never troublesome." - page 145. [Bibliographical references: Bagnall 2401 - "Although much of Haast's Nelson survey of 1860 which he undertook for the Nelson Provincial Government was in the footsteps of Heaphy, Brunner, the Mackays and Rochfort, the journey was the first scientific appraisal which included the discovery of the Coalbrookdale (Denniston) coal field. The eight months' walk with James Burnett and five others was from Rotoiti and Rotoroa to the Buller, the Maruia, Rahu Saddle to the Grey, the Mawheraiti and thence up the coast to Collingwood. The first 69 pages of the Report describe the journey; Chapter II covers physical geography, III Geology and the final three, roads, passes and land, zoology and botany."; Hocken p. 208 - "An eight months' exploration, in 1860, from Nelson to the Grey, Buller, &c., and back. The account of bird-life is especially interesting."].
Published by The "Times" Office, Printers, New Zealand 1879
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Add to basketHb. Condition: VG. None. First Edition. Green cloth on boards with quarter leather; few only patches of specks and marks. Spine: gilt title over red label, gilt bands and three blindstamped decoratives; light scuffing; wear to head of rearside corner. Boards fore corners with small bumping and light wear. Edges: lightly browned…and old foxing. Eps: marbled; some paperpeel to fep. Splitting to front & rear hinges. Penciled names to second eps. Frontis: fldg illustration by R.V.Waldheim, Wiem, of Canterbury Museum, Christchurh, NZ. Light few only foxings to a few pages, albeit mostly to the margins. All fldg b/w & coloured maps/ illustrations are present. One with white tape repair on the reverse side. Binding is As New. 486p followed by illustrated References to Sections 2 to 9.
More imagesPublished by Printed at the "Times" Office, Gloucester Street and Cathedral Square, Christchurch 1879
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Binding worn. Spine leather rubbed with abrasions. 10mm loss of leather at head of spine. Loss of leather at edges of corners of boards. Hinges broken. Some foxing. Complete with all plates. Map I with paper tapes repairs and strengthening along folds. Map IV with large…tear. Page numbers of all the pages which the maps and plates are facing have been added neatly in pencil to the list of Illustrations. ; Uncommon. ix, [3], 486 pages + folding frontispiece + 4 maps (3 folding) + 11 plates of geological sections + 9 folding plates of "Views" (including several of glaciers, one of the gorge of the Rakaia river, one of the skeleton of a Moa, Dinornis Maximus, compared with that of a Chatham Islands Moriori). The plates include photogravures printed by M. Jaffe, Vienna. Contemporary green half calf binding and green cloth boards. Red lettering piece on spine. 6 gilt bands on spine. Marbled endpapers. Page dimensions: 209 x 133mm. Aside from the geological aspects, the work for this book involved much arduous exploration of rugged terrain. "With a hand trembling from the cold, I executed a panoramic sketch of this grand alpine scenery to fix the bearings of the principal topographical features around us, my assistant, Mr. A. D. Dobson, having no little trouble to keep the stand of the instrument steady from the strong blasts of wind sweeping over this exposed height." - page 34. Haast was the Director of the Canterbury Museum, and Government Geologist to the Province of Canterbury. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall 2391 - "Haast's scientific classic was written as a 'final report' and is a distillation of his numerous earlier papers."] ; 8vo.
More imagesPublished by Printed at the "Times" Office, Gloucester Street and Cathedral Square, Christchurch 1879
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Leather spine and joints with moderate rubbing and superficial abrasions. 60mm split to leather at head of rear joint. 3mm missing to leather at head of spine. Front hinge broken, with split to gutter between title leaf and following preliminary leaf. A couple of m…aps with a small 25mm tear to margins. Plates and maps generally in very good condition. Some foxing. Overall quite a nice copy of this title.; Uncommon. ix, [3], 486 pages + folding frontispiece + 4 maps (3 folding) + 11 plates of geological sections + 9 folding plates of "Views" (including several of glaciers, one of the gorge of the Rakaia river, one of the skeleton of a Moa, Dinornis Maximus, compared with that of a Chatham Islands Moriori). Contemporary half calf binding and maroon cloth boards. Spine with red lettering piece, gilt and blind decoration. Page dimensions: 213 x 135mm. Marbled endpapers. Aside from the geological aspects, the work for this book involved much arduous exploration of rugged terrain. "With a hand trembling from the cold, I executed a panoramic sketch of this grand alpine scenery to fix the bearings of the principal topographical features around us, my assistant, Mr. A. D. Dobson, having no little trouble to keep the stand of the instrument steady from the strong blasts of wind sweeping over this exposed height." - page 34. Provenance: This copy inscribed by the author on front endpaper, but not signed. The inscription reads: "The Revd. A. G. Purchas / with kindest remembrances / from / his old friend the author / Aug 20th 1879". Arthur Guyon Purchas (1821-1906) "was a clergyman, missionary, surgeon, musician, engineer, inventor, pioneer, geologist and botanist born in the Wye Valley, who lived most of his life in Auckland, New Zealand." - Wikipedia entry on Arthur Guyon Purchas, accessed December 2020. Haast was the Director of the Canterbury Museum, and Government Geologist to the Province of Canterbury. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall 2391 - "Haast's scientific classic was written as a 'final report' and is a distillation of his numerous earlier papers."] ; 8vo.
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GULLY, JOHN & VON HAAST, DR JULIUS (Descriptive Letterpress)
Published by Marcus Ward & Co 1877 1877
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Add to basketFIRST EDITION, ALL PLATES PRESENT, elephant folio, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, aeg, unpaginated, illus/plates- no tissue guards, VG- (heavy creasing & cracking/tearing to spine, moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate foxing & soiling to eps, heavy c…racking to gutters, moderate foxing throughout inc. plates, verso pages of plates discoloured due to lack of tissue guards).
More imagesPublished by London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1877. 1877
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- First Edition
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Contact seller5-star sellerFolio (21 x 17 inches). 15 chromolithographed plates mounted on card (small tears in text leaver where plates have adhered). Original green cloth, gilt (rebacked to style). Provenance: with the bookplate of Forbes Library Northampton, Mass, on the front paste-down and their perforated library stamp on the title-page. "Mr. Gully…ranks as one of the most accomplished artists New Zealand has produced" (Hocken). First English edition, first published in Dunedin, New Zealand, the same year. With an introduction and explanatory text by his friend and patron, the geologist, von Haast, who through "achievements and his encouragement, science in New Zealand came of age": "It is impossible, without having seen them, to form any adequate idea of the grandeur of those gigantic masses of rock, snow, and ice which abound in the wild and desolate region of these Southern Alps. It was the privilege of the writer to have been the first explorer and delineator of these regions, it is almost impossible to convey through a small number of pictures and adequate representation of the varied scenery of these beautiful islands, but those which Mr. Gully has selected for publication are well chosen, and are sufficiently striking and characteristic to give the lover of nature some idea of the infinite beauty of that land" (Introduction). While drawing master at Nelson College, in New Zealand, from 1861 to 1863, Gully he sketched in the Nelson Lakes area and painted local scenes. "More importantly, he produced 12 watercolour paintings of South Island mountains and glaciers from sketches by Julius Haast. This set of paintings was used to illustrate Haast's lecture on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury province, which was read to the Royal Geographical Society in London on 8 February 1864. Gully exhibited at the New Zealand Exhibition in Dunedin in 1865, showing work on behalf of the survey office and on his own account. He gained a silver medal and sold all the paintings he exhibited. This recognition placed his name at the forefront of New Zealand watercolourists. His reputation was further enhanced by his exhibits at the Nelson Institute Exhibition in February 1866. The paintings included scenes of the town of Nelson, the Kaikoura Mountains, Mt Cook (from sketches by John Rochfort), and the West Coast. Some of the paintings went on to the Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia in Melbourne in 186667. Two paintings sold for £60 each and Gully made arrangements for agents to sell his work in Melbourne. He began an association with the Victoria Academy of Arts and was represented at many of its exhibitions. In 1873 he visited Victoria briefly and praised the people as his first real patrons. In 1865 there had been an unsuccessful attempt to publish a portfolio of his paintings of New Zealand. In 1877 the project finally came to fruition with the publication in Dunedin and London of New Zealand scenery. The 15 chromolithographs based on Gully's original watercolours were accompanied by descriptive text written by Haast. The plates depict prominent landmarks and scenes, from Mt Taranaki and Lake Taupo in the north to Bradshaw Sound in the south. Gully was disappointed with the reproductions, which are gaudy by comparison with the light and airy originals" (The Encyclopedia of New Zealand online). Ellis 926-940; NBNZ 2377. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.
