Hocken : prince of collectors /

"Dr Thomas Morland Hocken (1836-1910) arrived in Dunedin in 1862, aged 26. Throughout his busy life as a medical practitioner he amassed books, manuscripts, sketches, maps and photographs of early New Zealand. Much of his initial collecting focused on the early discovery narratives of James Coo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kerr, Donald, 1953- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Hocken, Thomas Morland, > 1836-1910. Hocken, Thomas Morland, > 1836-1910 > Library. Book collectors > New Zealand > Biography. Book collecting > New Zealand > History. Biography: historical, political & military > c 1800 to c 1900 > New Zealand. Australasian & Pacific history > c 1800 to c 1900 > New Zealand. Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 > c 1800 to c 1900 > New Zealand. Book collecting. Book collectors. Libraries. New Zealand. Privatsammlung. Neuseeland. Bibliofiler. Biography: historical, political & military > New Zealand > c 1500 onwards to present day > 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899. Australasian & Pacific history > New Zealand > c 1500 onwards to present day > 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899. Biography. History. Biografi.
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Table of Contents:

1. Childhood and schooling
2. Surgeon and sailor
3. Early beginnings in Dunedin
4. Home and garden
5. A fondness for anything New Zealand
6. Cultivating contacts
7. Good fortune, Dr Hocken, FLS
8. In her own right
9. A reputation established
10. A very big affair indeed
11. Bibliographic connections
12. The fieldwork continues
13. A gift, a literary venture and the South Seas
14. For a boxful of such rubbish I should be infinitely obliged
15. A welcome break
16. The CMS, the Colonial Office and home
17. Marsden or some other old historical subject
18. The pinnacle
19. An act of patriotism
20. The Hocken legacy.