Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sir Piercy Brett, 1709-81. Admiral, Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty. Cook named after him Cape Brett and Piercy Island or rock at the entrance to the Bay of Islands. T.M. Hocken.
(Autograph copy of parole on his release from 6 years captivity in the Isle of Mauritius). Port Napoleon, Isle de France, 7th June 1810 (Signed) Matt.as Flinders. Litho-Photographed from the original miniature painted 1801, age 27. Published by…
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dr John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. 1715-1773, Edited Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere including Captain Cook’s First Voyage. T.M. Hocken; label: Na te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Lieut. Willoughby Shortland, R.N., Drawn for me by his niece from a portrait. Landed…
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dr Johann Reinhold Forster 1729-1798. Naturalist, with his son on Cook’s second expedition, described the natural history of the voyage. The genus Forstera is named after him. T.M. Hocken; label: Na te Hakena…
Margin below image ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Henry Samuel Chapman (of the Inner Temple.); on mount: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Edited the New Zealand Journal until appointed in 1843 to judge of the Supreme Court at Wellington.…
On mount in ink: T.M. Hocken. John Robert Godley was born in 1814 at Killigar, Ireland. Educated at harrow & Christchurch, Oxford. He then travelled extensively & in 1844 published his Letters from America marked by great ability & thought. This work…
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: John Montagu fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1718-92, First Lord of the Admiralty, after whom Cook called the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Island. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
Lower left (l.l.) each image with brush: JTT 1879; on mount in pencil: J.T. Thomson Del.t 1879.Three Otago worthies: His Honour Captain Cargill; Sir John Richardson; Rev.d Dr Burns, D.D.