Australasia & Pacific

36x26 cm

Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin with illustrations by H.Winkles, engraved by T.Wrightson. Published in The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World...Edited by R. Montgomery Martin Esq. by John Tallis and Company, London and New York 1851.

Vignettes of Kalakakooa, Sandwich Islands (Kealakekua, Hawaii), Otaheite (Tahiti), Resolution Bay Marquesas, and Harbour of Dory New Guinea.

A good example without centrefold in original outline hand colour from the first edition. With accompanying page of typeset text description of the Polynesian Islands.