SAUNDERS, TRELAWNEY. WILLIAM [1821-1910]
Part of the Canterbury Settlement.
Map of Canterbury Region incorporating Mandeville District, Christchurch [including town of Lyttelton] and Lincoln District. Shows land division, native reserves. swamps, vegetation cover and 'anchorage' of H.M.S.V. Acheron' [1848-51]. Relief shown by hachures and bathymetric soundings. Framed folding map, hand coloured, mounted on cloth. Light neat pencil notations [names] in the land sections. 970 x 680mm, some light toning, VG.
London Day & Son lithrs to the Queen. Trelawney William Saunders [1851].
‘A rare map, almost certainly the map referred to on page 317 of the Canterbury Papers and can thus be dated as 1851, pre July. It depicts the survey work carried out in the Canterbury settlement before the arrival of the Charlotte Jane. It shows 'Lyttelton' on the site of Christchurch, and 'Lyttleton' [sic.] as the port’ – P.B. Maling, Historic charts & maps of New Zealand.
Provenance: Library of C.R. Straubel with a small neat pencil notation by him beneath the title.