Brees (Samuel) Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, 22 engraved plates including additional title, one double-paged, tissue guards, publisher's red cloth, upper cover titled and decorated in gilt, gilt edges, modern lower endpaper, rebacked retaining original spine, some staining and marking to covers, [Bagnall 647], housed in a clamshell red half morocco box by Bayntun (Riviere), box rubbed, folio (367 x 270mm.), John Williams and Co., 1849.See also: Bagnall, St. C.M. Murray-Oliver & Curnow, S.C. Brees, Artist and Surveyor (Alexander Turnbull Library, Occasional publications No 2 (n.s.), reprinted from the Turnbull Library Record Vol 1 (n.s.) No 4 November 1968. (This publication notes that the 1849 edition was published without 2 maps which appear in other editions of this work.)Provenance:Rex de Charembac Nan Kivell (1898–1977), New Zealand-born art collector, bookplate in lid of box. Sotheby's: lot 58, 26/09/2017.