New Zealand Illustrated.

£2,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Scarce. Wakefield's New Zealand Illustrated gives a fine visual record of New Zealand cities in the nineteenth century including Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Queenstown. The natural wonders include a folding plate of the eruption of Mount Tarawera. First edition; landscape folio; chromolithographed frontispiece 14 plates (1 folding) after William Potts, 1 plain plate featuring 3 cave scenes, one longer running through text with tape repair, folding plate with tear running into image, 2 other plates with short marginal tears, light finger-soiling; original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and soiled, some wear to corners, a good copy. Bobins 1477.

• Binding: Hardcover

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