Australasia.- New Zealand.- Barraud (Charles Decimus) and W.T.L.Travers. New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive, first edition, additional lithographed decorative title with mounted oval chromolithographed vignette of 'The Remarkables', list of subscribers, map, 24 mounted chromolithographed plates after Barraud, 6 plates of tinted lithographs, wood-engraved illustrations, text with light offsetting from plates, plates clean and bright, slightly trimmed, a couple with minor marginal tears/fraying to outer margin (repaired), with additional colour wood-engraved plate 'The Haunt of the Lyre Bird' after Louis Buvelot bound in at end (lightly spotted, central horizontal crease where previously folded), modern half green morocco, part of original gilt pictorial cloth cover with title loosely inserted (stained), folio, 1877. ⁂ Including scenes of Wellington, Auckland, Tarawera Lake, the geothermal terraces of Rotomahana, and Mount Cook.
Australasia.- New Zealand.- Barraud (Charles Decimus) and W.T.L.Travers. New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive, first edition, additional lithographed decorative title with mounted oval chromolithographed vignette of 'The Remarkables', list of subscribers, map, 24 mounted chromolithographed plates after Barraud, 6 plates of tinted lithographs, wood-engraved illustrations, text with light offsetting from plates, plates clean and bright, slightly trimmed, a couple with minor marginal tears/fraying to outer margin (repaired), with additional colour wood-engraved plate 'The Haunt of the Lyre Bird' after Louis Buvelot bound in at end (lightly spotted, central horizontal crease where previously folded), modern half green morocco, part of original gilt pictorial cloth cover with title loosely inserted (stained), folio, 1877. ⁂ Including scenes of Wellington, Auckland, Tarawera Lake, the geothermal terraces of Rotomahana, and Mount Cook.
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