94
Edward Jerningham Wakefield 'Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand'
Estimate:
$15,000 - $20,000
Sold
$27,000
Live Auction
191 The Collection of John Elliot Lawford | Part 1: Live Auction (Lot 1-94)
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Edward Jerningham Wakefield
Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand
Lithographed from original Drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wickstead, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S Brees & Captain W Mein Smith.
London: Smith Elder and Co 1845, first edition, one of the rare hand-coloured copies. Pagination: 2 l., title page with hand coloured vignette and description of plates, coloured lithographs on 15 l., [including 5 fldg panoramas], 360mm. Marginal finger marks, spotting, and browning mainly on the fldg panoramas, plates mainly clean. Rebound in later half green leather with pale green cloth boards. Bagnall 5820
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand
Lithographed from original Drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wickstead, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S Brees & Captain W Mein Smith.
London: Smith Elder and Co 1845, first edition, one of the rare hand-coloured copies. Pagination: 2 l., title page with hand coloured vignette and description of plates, coloured lithographs on 15 l., [including 5 fldg panoramas], 360mm. Marginal finger marks, spotting, and browning mainly on the fldg panoramas, plates mainly clean. Rebound in later half green leather with pale green cloth boards. Bagnall 5820
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
