The New Zealand Year-Book 1900. Ninth Year of Issue
Wellington, NZ: John MacKay, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 1900. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in cloth backed paper boards, with paper spine title. 648pp, with color frontis map of New Zealand, photographic plates, and a folding plate in the rear of occupational and other statistics. Good+. Foxing, rubbing, and soil to boards. Creasing to spine cloth and wear to title label. Offsetting to front flyleaf. Minor foxing to margins. Contents remain clean and unmarked. Housed in mylar. A wealth of statistical information on New Zealand at the turn of the century, including information on population, school attendance, births, deaths, drunkenness and other crimes, and the economic output of the island in farming, mining, and exports. Also includes history New Zealand starting with the Maori and several photographic plates of the islands. Rare, with only 2 copies available on OCLC. Good+. Item #z09980
Price: $281.25