Historic Charts & Maps of New Zealand, 1642-1875 BY Peter Bromley Maling.
Historic Charts & Maps of New Zealand, 1642-1875 BY Peter Bromley Maling.
Published by Reed, Auckland, 1999.
Very Large Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 410x310mm. 316 pages, 141 colour and b/w plates, endpaper maps. Good condition. Binding is shaken so that page block is uneven but there are no loose pages. Some bumping to spine ends and corners, pages very good, minor marks, no inscriptions. Jacket has some rubbing and chipping, some scratches and marks.
"The book is designed to tell the story of how New Zealand (Aotearoa) was "put on the map". Here will be found some of the results of the work of all those navigators who made worthwhile contributions to the charting of the coastlines of these islands".
ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.
Heavy book - will require extra postage costs outside of New Zealand.
All books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand.
