NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL MAP, AND TASMANIA Greenwich & Environs with title and author's name

with title and author's name stamped in gilt on upper board

The roundels themselves are set in a trompe l'oeil edifice decorated with palms

They manage therefore to show a combination of antiquarianism and the new developments that characterised the railway age

a notch gone from midway right hand side

On a cliff on which a small British lion lies on a scroll inscribed: 'Qui uti scit ei bona' ['good things to him who knows how to use them']

NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL MAP, AND TASMANIA Greenwich & Environs with title and author's nameColour lithograph. George Philip and Son, The London Geographical Institute, published by The Amagamated Press, [no date] 1900. Image size: 480 x 350mm 18 7 8 x 13 3 4" approx, plus borders. Generally good condition throughout: a horizontal centre fold, as issued; two creases evident at centre right (would probably press out). The map shows the North and South islands of New Zealand in clear and concise detail. The counties, main centres of habitation