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Novissima Sinica [title page].
'I consider it a singular plan of the fates that human cultivation and refinement should today be concentrated, as it were, in the two extremes of our continent, in Europe and in Tshina (as they call it), which adorns the Orient as Europe does the…
Old mission station at Waikouaiti. 1887
Margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: The old mission station at Waikouaiti. Built in 1840. Sketch made September 3rd 1887. The house had then long been empty & was thoroughly out of repair. It was E. by N. - true - almost directly facing…
Pepepe Church Missionary station. On the Waikato River New Zealand.
Lower right (l.r.) on plate: FA [monogram]; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the interest I took in old New Zealand & was a frequent visitor at my house, promised to bequeath…