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London: John Williams and Co., Library Of Arts, 1847. Blue cloth on boards, gilt titles and gilt & blindstamped decorative surround with mild rubbing and soiling; shelf-sunned. Light rubbing to extremeties. Wear to four fore corners. Edges: gilt, mildly rubbed. Ffep with name & dates 1950 & 52. Most pages with some old foxing. Binding is VG. Large book: 375 x 280 mm 1 kg. First Edition. Hb. VG/None. Illus. by S.C.Brees, Drawn By / Henry Melville, Engraved.

John Williams & Co 1849 (2nd issue). Rebacked with new eps & original boards, all plates present, folio, red boards with gilt lettering & gilt & blind decorative rule, gilt lettering to red cloth spine, a.e.g, new eps with reinforced hinges, illus title page, 6pp + 4pp + 21 full-page plates each with tissue guard and 1 or 2pp of accompanying text, illus, VG (moderate staining to boards, bruising & fraying to board corners, heavy foxing to title page & some plates, some creasing to edges)

London: John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 1847. Book. Good. Half-Leather. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. 36 text pages, 22 plates (including the frontispiece), 2 large folding maps. Original binding with leather spine and corners, all edges gilt, new endpapers, bottom corners bumped, some foxing, closed tears in the maps. Inscribed by the author to William Bridges, Esq., a few old stamps. Beautiful illustrations of early New Zealand. .