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pictorial cloth, some wear along joints of spine covers. Wein 1864;
Hocken page 212 (2)
$1200 – $1800
Early Tourism, Rotorua,
the Hot Lakes District
411. (Alpers Oscar T.J.) Three in a Coach. A descriptive
account of a tour through the Hot Lakes and Geysers District
of the North Island together with the Maori legends that refer
to the localities and a guide by Two of Them. Octavo, original
pink wrappers, 83 pages, advertisements. bound in linen backed
boards, notes on front endpaper by Johannes Anderson attributing
the authorship of the pamphlet, tipped in a letter from Russell
Duncan, Spa Hotel, Taupo regarding details of Alpers stay on 26th
Dec 1890. Christchurch, Press Company 1891. A rare classic.
Bagnall A395
$300 – $600
412. Barraud Charles D. New Zealand Graphic and
Descriptive. The illustrations by C.D.Barraud. Edited by
W.T.L. Travers. Folio, original brown gilt pictorial half calf,
frontispiece title, 25 chromolithograph plates, plain lithographs,
wood engravings in text, corner of one margin stained, isolated light
browning on few pages of text. London, Sampson Low 1877
$1500 – $2500
413. Chapman george T. Traveller’s Guide through
New Zealand. A Picture of New Zealand, geographical,
topographical, and statistical, places visited and described…
Octavo, folding map, plates, plans of four large towns, original grey
title covers. Auckland, G.T. Chapman 1872. Arguably the first
guide book for New Zealand. Very complete with some quaint
cynical descriptions eg Hutt Valley, Dunedin gaol and Mount
Egmont. Bagnall 1042
$300 – $600
414. Chapman george T. Traveller’s Guide through the
Lake District. The Boiling Lakes and Springs, the intermitting
fountains, the burning mountain, and mud volcanoes, in the
Province of Auckland. As issued with no folding map, octavo, blue
paper covers. Auckland, Geo T Chapman (1873) Tourist visits
began after the Duke of Edinburgh’s visit in 1869 Bagnall
1043
$300 – $600
415. Chapman george T. The Natural Wonders of New
Zealand (The Wonderland of the Pacific): its Boiling Lakes,
Steam Holes, Mud Volcanoes, Sulphur Baths, Medicinal
Springs and Burning Mountains. Octavo, frontispiece, ( folding
map), rare tipped- in-section with caption title. Supplement to the
Natural Wonders of New Zealand, by William A Ellis, 4 pages.
G.T. Chapman Auckland Second edition (1881?) Bagnall 1045
$200 – $600
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412
416. (Mclean Patrick Stirling). Hot Lakes, Volcanoes,
Geysers of New Zealand with Legends by Terence Gordon.
Octavo, grey paper covers, tear top right corner, plates after Kate
Mc Cosh Clark, folding map, text, advertisements with Spa Hotel
lithograph. Napier, Dinwiddie Walker 1889. Bagnall 3311 The
best early Taupo guide book.
$200 – $400
417. Henley Frank. Bright Memories: Being
reminiscences of Frank Henly. Compiled chiefly from letters
containing an account of his visits to Australia and New
Zealand. Illustrated by views of the hot lake district, the scene
of the eruption of 1886. For Private Circulation. octavo, gilt
cloth, plates. Torquay, W.H. Goss 1887. Bagnall 2569: Bracken
Thomas. The New Zealand Tourist. Octavo, paper covers,
frontispiece mounted photograph, maps. Union Steamship Company,
Dunedin, McKay Bracken & Co, 1879. (2)
$100 – $200
418. (Henshaw William?) The Newest Guide to the Hot
Lakes, by a man constantly in hot water. 18 pages signed T.T.H.
Octavo, paper title wrappers, advertisement for and engraving of
the Palace Hotel Ohinemutu on back cover, notes preface name W.
Henshaw as Auckland agent for Wm Kelly owner of the Palace
Hotel. Auckland, Wilson & Horton 1880. Does not appear to
be listed in New Zealand bibliographies. rare
$150 – $300
419. New Zealand Survey Department.The Thermal
Springs of the North Island of New Zealand, Rotorua,
Rototiti, Tarawera, Kakahi, Taupo, Rotomhana from sketches
& photographs. Green paper covers, quarto, lithographic plate.
(Wellington 1882.) Bagnall 4253; A Trip To Wonderland by
Nibor. Our trip to Wairakei, Taupo, December 1884-January
1885. Small oblong octavo, stiffened paper covers, 52 page.
Wilson & Horton, (1885?). Inscribed inside front cover ‘Mrs
Colenso with the author’s compliments Sept /89’. Not listed in
bibliographies and broken run of ‘Picturesque New Zealand’ by
C.O. Montrose. 1882-83.(2)
$300 – $600