John Robinson Mclean (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In stock ready to dispatch from the UK.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good clean copy with an ownership stamp. A modern, well?illustrated history of the 1864 Tauranga campaign. It brings together the political background, the inter?iwi dynamics, and the British military objectives that led to the battles of Pukehinahina (Gate P?) and Te Ranga.

Condition: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Condition: Used. pp. 656.

Condition: Used. pp. 656.

Condition: Used. pp. 656.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. Tremlett, David (illustrator). First Edition. 4to. Eight separate publications houses in a two-piece cardboard box with printed paper covers that replicate, in reverse colors, the design of the Catalog (48 pp.) and Bibliography (36 pp.) housed within. Box in Very Good condition. There are six pieces commissioned by the Yale Center for British Art in this collection: Richard Long's "Stones and Suilven/Scotland 1981"; Victor Burgin's "I'Vegno Per Menarvi a l'Altra Riva"; Gilbert and George's "Life Without End. 1982"; Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document. Postscriptum. Summer 1983"; Robert McLean's "Piece Peace a Piece of Shit"; and David Tremlett's "Old Tom and Hotel Room" which is signed by him in pencil on the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First. 328pp, w/full markings, pocket, wear/soil. Weight is 3.5 lb. Ex-Library Size: 4to. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. ix, 160, [1 (blank)] pages + 30 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 209 x 146mm. Colour and black and white illustrations. New Zealand history, Maori history. "'Gate Pa and Te Ranga: the Full Story' describes the historical background for the decision of Ngaiterangi warriors to join the fighting against the British, including their attacks on South Auckland settlers and troops. Ngaiterangi fought as part of a pre-Treaty alliance, formed during the bloody inter-tribal wars of the 1820s and 1830s. The reasons why almost 2,000 British troops were sent to Tauranga in 1864 are more straightforward. Tauranga was not only an important staging post for tribesmen from the East Coast and Bay of Plenty on their way to fight alongside the Kingite rebels in the Waikato, but was also supplying the Kingites with food and gunpowder. It was to stop all this and to impose law and order in what was a rather lawless place the British carried out a military campaign, in co-operation with the loyal Arawa tribe, in and around Tauranga in the first half of 1864." - from blurb on rear cover.

See the three men's entries in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with tape from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf, which is docketted by Manby. Signed 'J Emerson Tennent'. Folded once. He explains that a friend of his, 'who is much interested about the Suez Canal, is going to Egypt next week', and that he has that day promised, if he can, 'to obtain for him, a copy of an Address which you once gave me, (but which I have put away so carefully that I cannot find it now) delivered by J. M. McClean, to the Institution, in which he stated the cost already incurred and the large balance, still required to complete the canal'. This is, he believes, 'an un-satisfactory inference as to the power of raising so great a sum, or [rending it re-production?]'. In addition to the address, he would like 'any later documents shewing the state & prospects of the enterprise'. The Suez Canal took from 1859 to 1869 to build.