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WAKEFIELD, Edward. New Zealand Illustrated. The Story of New Zealand and Descriptions of its Cities and Towns. Wangnanui, New Zealand: Printed and Published by A.D. Willis, 1889. Oblong folio (280 x 482 mm). Title-page and text with red lithographic borders. 14 fine chromolithographic plates after photographs by Burton Bros., E. Wheeler, W. Tyree, Collis, S. Carnell et al by A.D. Willis, including the famous double-page plate Mount Carawera in Eruption June 10 1886; three lithographic views of interior of the Waitomo Caves on one plate. (Some very pale occasional spotting.) Original black morocco-backed boards, the front cover a chromolithographic panel with a view of Queenstown. FIRST EDITION. Bagnall 5786.
WAKEFIELD, Edward. New Zealand Illustrated. The Story of New Zealand and Descriptions of its Cities and Towns. Wangnanui, New Zealand: Printed and Published by A.D. Willis, 1889. Oblong folio (280 x 482 mm). Title-page and text with red lithographic borders. 14 fine chromolithographic plates after photographs by Burton Bros., E. Wheeler, W. Tyree, Collis, S. Carnell et al by A.D. Willis, including the famous double-page plate Mount Carawera in Eruption June 10 1886; three lithographic views of interior of the Waitomo Caves on one plate. (Some very pale occasional spotting.) Original black morocco-backed boards, the front cover a chromolithographic panel with a view of Queenstown. FIRST EDITION. Bagnall 5786.

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WAKEFIELD, Edward. New Zealand Illustrated. The Story of New Zealand and Descriptions of its Cities and Towns. Wangnanui, New Zealand: Printed and Published by A.D. Willis, 1889. Oblong folio (280 x 482 mm). Title-page and text with red lithographic borders. 14 fine chromolithographic plates after photographs by Burton Bros., E. Wheeler, W. Tyree, Collis, S. Carnell et al by A.D. Willis, including the famous double-page plate Mount Carawera in Eruption June 10 1886; three lithographic views of interior of the Waitomo Caves on one plate. (Some very pale occasional spotting.) Original black morocco-backed boards, the front cover a chromolithographic panel with a view of Queenstown. FIRST EDITION. Bagnall 5786.