Trout In New Zealand: Where To Go And How To Catch Them

Incomplete, lacking index pages and folding map. Ex-library with remains of library slip on front endpaper. No other library stamps or markings. Edges of boards worn and rubbed. Spine cloth rubbed and worn with one 3/8" chip and a couple of 1/4" tears to the cloth. 1/8" missing to cloth at each end of spine. Gutters roughly reinforced with paper at hinges.; [2], ii, (94) of 99 pages + 2 plates of Brown Trout + 1 folding colour plan of the Acclimatisation Society's Ponds at Masterton. Lacking the folding map and the 3 leaves of Index at rear. Blue boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 210mm x 135mm. "Seven great rivers - The Clarence, the Waiau, the Waimakariri, the Rakaia, the Waitaki, and the Clutha - find their exit into the sea on the east coast of the Southern Island Of New Zealand. They are cradled in the great Southern range, the Southern Alps, which form the backbone of the South Island." - the opening sentences. [References: Bagnall S1363; Corliss pp.199-200].; 8vo.