Author: CONGREVE, HARRISON, BEESLY, PEMBER, BRIDGES, COOKSON & HUTTON
Title: International Policy. Essays on the Foreign Relations of England WITH MAPS
Description: London, 193 Piccadilly, Chapman & Hall. 1866, First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Hardback, demy 8vo. 140mm x 235mm tall (5.5" x 9.25" approx.). Pp xii, 603 plus a single-sided leaf with two small maps, one (partly hand-coloured) "The Cape of Good Hope, British Kaffraria & Natal" and the second, line-drawn, "British Kaffraria", plus a multi-folding plate containing a map to illustrate the Waikato War and Taranaki Campaign 1863-6; an "Ethnographic Map of the Pacific Ocean"; a map showing the [hand-coloured] route by which the Malays migrated from Sumatra to New Zealand; a hand-coloured map "The Islands of New Zealand 'to illustrate the last Essay on the Foreign relations of England' "; "A Table "Distribution of Territory in the North Island (approximate in the year 1867); ; a steel-engraving "New Zealand Plan (Phormium Tenak) Maori Village, with Swing and Pah in the Distance"; a hand-coloured "Map to Illustrate the Taranaki War 1860-61, and a table "The Population of New Zealand (approximate) giving figures of the European Census of 1861 with the Maori Census of 1877-8, and also the population figures, divided between European & Maori, for 1861, for each of the areas Aukland, Taranaki, Hawke Bay & Wellington, plus a 16pp Publisher's price list for October, 1866. Contents: Essay I. "The West", by Richard Congreve, M.A. Essay II. "England and France", by Frederic Harrison, M.A. Essay III. "England and the Sea", by E.S. Beesly, M.A. Essay IV. "England and India", by E.H. Pember, M.A. Essay V. "England and Japan", by Charles A Cookson, B.A. and Essay VI. "England and the Uncivilised Countries" by Henry Dix Hutton, Barrister-at-Law. The Introduction, although written in the first-person, is unattributed. Minor light rubs to edges and a faded stamp impression to front free endpaper, otherwise very good, in the original blind-decorated, maroon cloth-covered boards/gilt spine title and decorations and with, to the back pastedown, the postage-stamp-style binder's ticket for Virtue & Co.. Very Good.

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