Travel

A Journey to the Haast and Mount Aspiring, New Zealand, Second edition, frontispiece and numerous b&w illustrations from photographs, two folding maps (see specimen below), xx & 222 pp, blue boards (no d/w, but it is questionable whether there was one), extremities a little rubbed, closed edges of pages browned, otherwise in very good condition, Whitcombe & Tombs, undated (c.1913)

21.6 x 13.3 cm, 700g, no ISBN

That is, the western coastal area of South Island.  See below the description from the book’s preface, and the route-map.

This is one of those books which American paperback reprinters have fallen on, and their products are available in this country at £18.99.  However, our copy is a proper sewn hardback, and will open flat.