First Edition. 16mo Frontis Map, xii, 260pp. Newly re-backed quarter red morocco, original cloth boards. Some damage to one page edge, repaired with archival paper tape, not affecting text otherwise very good. The object of the following book is to supply intending emigrants with the information requisite to enable them to effect their purpose certainly and economically, and at the same time to give them such an outline of the colony to which they are proceeding. “Things in England cannot much longer continue as they have been : somebody must move off. The question, therefore, become – Who will go?” With chapters on Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and the Wairau, New Plymouth, Otago, Canterbury, Hints Previous to the Voyage, First steps in the Colony, The Auckland Gold Fields. (Stock ref 5)