Australasia & Pacific

27x37 cm

Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin with illustrations by H. Warren, engraved by J.B.Allen. 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 Auckland, Mount Egmont from New Plymouth, Wellington, The Seal of New Zealand and a Maori native. Decorative Maori design border.
Two small inkspots top left border (near seal) and slight discolouration to edges outside decorative border. A good example without centrefold in original outline hand colour from the first edition. With accompanying page of typeset text description of New Zealand.