Moko; or Maori Tattooing

by Major-General Horatio Gordon Robley

$2,750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Frontispiece, 180 illustrations from drawings by the author and from photographs. xxi, 216 pp. 4to. A very good copy in original brown pictorial cloth, with Maori tattoo illustration on the covers. Gilt lettering on cover and spine, bookplate of I. Eliot Hodgrin to front pastedown. Extremities rubbed,occasional foxing throughout. Bagnall R856; Hocken p436; An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, 1966. Item #304798

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