BOYCE, WILLIAM D. - Australia and New Zealand

Rand McNally. 1922, 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition (NAP). Green silk binding with heavy gold titles at front and spine, top edge gilt. Four-color map endsheets. Signed on custom bookplate pasted to second leaf verso. Illustrated with many B&W photos throughout. Entire book printed on heavy coated stock. Some of the topics covered include the early aboriginal population, a short history of mining and agriculture, native flora and fauna, and the various provinces, with a separate section on New Zealand. Book very good with faint spotting to endmatter, tear to bookplate at front, evidence of waterstain at lower foreedge causing slight rippling of text block. DJ very good minus with some loss to spine-ends and flap corners. 381 pp. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.