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Lot 227

[PHOTGRAPHY]. Original Albumen Photo of a “Young New Zealan...

Estimate: $200 - $400

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[PHOTGRAPHY]. Original Albumen Photo of a ?Young New Zealand?" Native Boy, Mounted in ?Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times?" [Photograph: New Zealand, n.d., ca. 1900s; book: Christchurch, Wellington: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1906]. Photo mounted onto verso of ffep; approximately 5 ? x 3 ?". With manuscript ink caption: ?Young New Zealand (Ramona Maisihsera [?])". Book: 8vo. Illustrated. 350 pp. Publisher's full brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in dark brown (spine toned, binding worn, newspaper clippings mounted on endleaves, manuscript fair copy of a poem on ffep, signed (?Robert Gaul [?] Kahakund [?] Seatonie [?] 1907"), some foxing in text, a few pages and plates loose). Fair. An unusual photographic portrait of a young native of New Zealand.