Novissima Sinica [title page].
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'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 opposite edge of the earth.' So wrote G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716), the German philosopher and mathematician, in his preface to Novissima Sinica (News from China), a collection of missionary reports and letters on China. Two questions from the text highlight the practical nature inherent in the book: 'Whether nothing is known of the sea between North Asia and North America' and 'whether there were any artificial economic devices of the Chinese for toiling the field and garden, which are of worth and useful to be described?' This is the second edition of 1699.
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Novissima Sinica, historiam nostri temporis illustratura in quibus De christianismo publica nunc primum autoritate propagato missa in Europam relatio exhibetur, deqve favore scientiarum Europaearum ac moribus gentis & ipsius praefertim monarchae, tum & de bello Sinensium cum Moscis ac pace constituta, multa hactenus ignota explicantur. Edente G.G.L. ... [Leipzig?] 1699.
[Leipzig?].
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Old mission station at Waikouaiti. 1887
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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 Matinaka & was on the native reserve two minutes walk from the sea beach & from the spot where the moa bones were found by Mr Walter Mantell in 1849. The first occupant was the Rev James Watkin after whom Mount Watkin is called (1840-440 - the second, the Rev Charles Creed (1844-49), both Wesleyan Missionaries. Earliest built house in Otago. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; margin below image r. in ink: [plan & specifications of house & cemetery]; margin above image in ink: Bay of Waikouaiti drawn by Dr Shortland, 1843 [copy of map of Bay].
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Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
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Pepepe Church Missionary station. On the Waikato River New Zealand.
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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 me these sketches which he commenced to take from the time of his arrival in New Zealand in 1842.
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Sketchbook bequeathed to Dr T.M. Hocken by Sir William Fox in 1893; Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Smith, Elder & Co. London.
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