Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), rightly called the 'Father of Modern Cartography', developed the idea of assembling a compendium of maps to form an atlas. The first edition of his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" was published in 1570 and it was a great…
Margin below image on stone: This church, which is 80 feet long, 36 feet broad and 40 feet high, has been erected by the voluntary labour of the Maories, under the superintendence of Archdeacon Hadfield and the Rev. H. Williams. The timber for the…
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Born at Nottingham, Feb. 11th 1792. Entered the Royal Navy in 1806, serving in various successiv vessels, taking part in the last naval engagement of the American war - that…
Dessiné par L. Le Breton. Lith.é par P. Blanchard. Lith de Thierry frères Paris. Gide Editeur. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Océanie. Atlas pittoresque. pl 181 [1846]
From the middle of the seventeenth to the beginning of the nineteenth-century, Japan, through the Tokugawa Shōgunate, was successful in rigorously enforcing a policy of seclusion. No Europeans were allowed into Japan except the Dutch who were…
Through image on stone: JB; To England, S.E.R.J., Bankruptcy, Gas Comp. Transfer Shares; through image in ink: 1. 2. 3. 4; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: 1. Shadrach Edward Robert Jones of the Provincial Hotel, Dunedin, a smart rogue & bankrupt.…
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Edmund Storr Halswell, B.A. of Cambridge, a barrister & elected F.R.S. in April 1834 was appointed by the NZ Company in 1840 Commissioner for the Management of Lands reserved…