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Hursthouse (Charles). New Zealand, or Zealandia, the Britain of the South, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edward Stanford, 1857, 7 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece, errata leaf, 2 linen-backed hand-coloured folding maps in end-pockets, frontispiece spotted, maps browned, early-20th-century brown half morocco, together with: [Swainson, William], Auckland, the Capital of New Zealand, and the Country Adjacent: including some Account of the Gold Discovery in New Zealand, 1st edition, Smith, Elder & Co., 1853, folding tinted lithographic panorama as frontispiece, large folding map with partial hand-colouring, both with repairs verso, frontispiece partially torn in gutter, 19th-century ink-stamps (Devon and Exeter Institution) to versos of frontispiece and map and to p. 162 margin, advertisements discarded, contemporary quarter calf, japon fore edges, rubbed, Polack (Joel Samuel), New Zealand: being a Narrative of Travels and Adventures during a Residence in that Country between the Years 1831 and 1837, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Richard Bentley 1838, 6 aquatint plates including frontispieces, folding map, a little light spotting to plates, frontispieces offset, contemporary blue half calf, rubbed, Wakefield (Edward Jerningham), Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839 to 1844; with some account of the Beginning of the British Colonization of the Islands, 2 volumes, 1st edition, John Murray 1845, folding map by Arrowsmith (stub-mounted, split in places), contemporary tan calf, gilt arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet to covers, rubbed, joints cracking, and 3 other 19th-century works on New Zealand, leather-bound, all 8vo (Qty: 10) Abbey 593 for Hursthouse. The panorama and map are often missing from Swainson's work.