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‎EARLY SKETCHES AND CHARTS OF BANKS PENINSULA 1770-1850‎

‎Maling, Peter BromleyEARLY SKETCHES AND CHARTS OF BANKS PENINSULA 1770-1850Wellington, 1981, A.H. & A.W. Reed, First New Zealand Edition. 103 pp., numerous maps, charts and drawings, with 82 plates, of which 27 plates are beautifully colored and tipped-in from publisher. Hardcover Folio, in boxed case. Blue cloth boards with leather spine. Page dimensions: 390 x 271mm.Contents: Cook to D'Urville (1770-1840); Stanley and the Arrival of the French Settlers (1840); An Unknown Artist and the Infant Settlement at Akaroa (1841); Charles Meryon and the Rhin (1843-46); A Trio of Journal Artists: Selwyn, Barnicoat and Mantell (1844-49); William Fox and the Canterbury Settlement (1848-50); Richard Aldworth Oliver (1848-50); Notes on Sources; Index. Spectacular illustrations and plates in a quality production, decorative endpapers, fine paper and blue boxed (faded) case. No. 417 of a deluxe limited edition of 500 copies.Fine condition with ex dono of the prime Minister of New Zeeland, Jim Bolger‎