Lydekker Huia

Print description

Description:

 

SDUK: The Islands of New Zealand
hand coloured steel engraving,

From:

 

The Family Atlas of the Society For The Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Edward Stanford, London, 1857.

Artist:

Engraved on steel by J & C Walker

 

Addional Notes:

This is a rare map from one of the most accurate mapmakers of the mid nineteenth century, The Society For The Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The SDUK maps were published from the 1830's, the earlier maps were only coloured in a faint outline. The later maps from the 1850's were fully hand coloured.

 

Display &
Framing Notes:

 

Do not hang in direct sunlight.
This print is framed with acid free archival matting and archival glass.

 

 

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