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[LEPORELLO] Album of New Zealand by Anon

by Anon

[LEPORELLO] Album of New Zealand by Anon

[LEPORELLO] Album of New Zealand

by Anon

  • Used
  • Hardcover
[Germany] : s.n., [c.1888]. Octavo, original cloth backed blue pebbled boards with gilt embossed lettering and decoration, including the Australian coat of arms (rubbed and sunned, some chipping to fore-edges, backstrip with loss in a couple of spots), containing a leporello concertina foldout with [12] panels of views of New Zealand including Dunedin, Christchurch, Auckland, Rotomahana, and Wellington; internally very good. Views of Dunedin include: Knox Church, First Church, Grand Hotel, Princes Street, Union Steam Ship Coy's Offices, Bank of New Zealand, Town Hall, the Octagon, University, High School for Boys, Saint Clair, the Resevoir, the Caves, Entrance to Milford Sound, Mitre Peak, Port Chalmers, and Dunedin from Roslyn. Views of Christchurch include: Post Office, Hospital, Christchurch from the Cathedral, Armagh Bridge, and Victoria Bridge. Views of Auckland include: Queens Street, The Tabernackle, Albert Park, Waiwera, Auckland from the North Shore, Atemuri Waikato, and Birds Eye View of Auckland. Views of Rotomahana include: Rotomahana Springs, Umbrella Buttress, Top of White Terrace, White Terrace, Lake Rotorua, Native Meeting House-Ominemutu, and Rotomahana Lake. Views of Wellington include: Post Office, Queens Wharf, and Te Aro. Other views include: Napier, Lyttelton Harbour, Queens Town Lake Wakatipu, Eyre Peaks-Lake Wakatipu, Nelson looking West, and Oamaru Breakwater. Bagnall, 69. A single copy is recorded in Australian collections (State Library of New South Wales).