STEVENS, GEORGE TREACY
Lithograph of central Auckland [ca 1885 - 1886].
Title on the base, Auckland, N.Z. and described 'This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z. Lithographed at the Evening Star Office, Shortland Street. Shows all the streets are named, and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour.
Original chromolithograph mounted on cloth 675 x 910mm. Some restoration work.
The only known detailed bird's-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Rare.