WISE & COY [2 volumes]
New Zealand Directory 1878.
Pagination iii, xvii, [9]p, 708p, 36p [postal rates], 108p [adverts]. The text has been rebound into the original blind stamped cloth binding with gilt titles, throughout the text, several groups of pages which have been missing have been photocopied and expertly bound in, making it a very tidy copy of a rare and early directory. 2. Bound copy of Wise and Co, New Zealand Directory 1878 maps. 160mm, approximately six original folding maps of cities of New Zealand. Auckland Directory map, and the City of Wellington have both been restored using Japanese tissue. The Cities of Christchurch, Canterbury. Dunedin. Nelson and Timaru are all complete, some creased and badly folded, mainly VG. All have been rebound into modern blue cloth boards with gilt titles.