Rare Book
Tuesday, 23 April - Thursday, 9 May 2024
Brees Sameul Charles - Guide And Description of the Panorama Of New Zealand
Estimate $200 - $350
Realised: $650 plus premium
Lot Details
Illustrating The Country, Habits Of The Colonists, Public Buildings, Houses, Farms, And Clearings, Customs Of The Natives, Pa's Habitations, Canoes, etc and Life In The Colony And In The Bush. Printed by Savill & Edwards, London, first edition, ND (1849), with 54 plates including frontis and map, original blind stamped gold cloth with title in gilt, retailers label to pastedown for Newbold's Bookshop Ltd, Dunedin. A Nice and very scarce copy. The Panorama, to which the guide was an illustrated catalogue, was opened on 24th December 1849 at Leicester Square.
