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Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1800 :[Twelve engravings from Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage p...
Date: 1826 - 1836 - 1829
By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-
Reference: A-433-013/024
Description: See individual records Quantity: 12 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on pages, sizes varying around 280 x 183 mm.
Chaffers, Edward Main, 1806-1845: New Zealand Land Company's possession's [copy of ms map]
Date: 1839
By: Chaffers, Edward Main, 1806-1845; Bett, Francis Arnot Blackader, 1873-1957
Reference: MapColl-830gbba/1839/Acc.131
Description: Depicts the lower half of North Island from approximately Hamilton to Gisborne, referred to as Province of North Durham, also the top half of South Island from approximately Greymouth across to Kaikoura, referred to as Province of South Durham. The map is annotated 'The dotted line denotes the boundaries of the provinces' and this line is marked diagonally between Pt. Tebouka kore in the Wellington Region and a point north of Tui Bay in the Taranaki Region. Some bays are named as are points including Kidnappers Pt., and capes including Foulwind, Farewell, Palliser and Egmont. Also named are Queen Charlotte Sound, Cook's Strait, Hawke Bay and the islands D'Urville, Kapiti, Mana and Sugarloaf. Mount Egmont, Ruapehu and Tonga Volcano are marked. Original photograph of this map is larger than this copy. Information found in original card index record. Explanation on reverse as follows: Photograph of Chaffer's map of New Zealand Company's purchases, 1839. Received from Dr. Bett about March 27, 1945. Original attached to some land claims in the Lands Office in Nelson. Signature of E.M. Chaffers, 1839 is written at bottom right corner on original. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, black and white, 15 x 22.4 cm.
Ollivier, Isabel, 1949-2020: Research notes relating to French explorers to New Zealand
Date: [1985-1994]
By: Ollivier, Isabel, 1949-2020
Reference: MS-Group-0078
Description: Translations and transcripts of manuscripts on French explorers in New Zealand including Adolphe-Pierre Lesson's botanical notes on the voyage of the `Astrolabe', (Astrolabe Harbour, Jan-Mar 1827); Lesson's medical report on the voyage of the `Astrolabe',(Toulon 3 Apr 1829); a report (Mar 1826) and instructions for Dumont D'Urville, Captain of `La Coquille' (re-named `Astrolabe') on his voyage of exploration, with a covering letter signed by Count de Rosily of the French Admiralty; report by Dumont d'Urville (Bay of Islands 14 Mar 1827) on the voyage of the `Astrolabe' and a report by Dumont D'Urville on possible sites for a colony in New Zealand. Also a transcript of pages 389-859 of Lesson's Journal Historique, the original of which is in the Bibliotheque Municipale de Rochefort. Electronic material of these transcripts and translations accompanied this material. Source of title - supplied title Material supplied by Isabel Ollivier for `Early eyewitness acounts of Maori life'; volume five. Quantity: 57 folder(s). 8 microfilm reel(s). 5 megabyte(s) textual material. 0.60 Linear Metres.