Augustus Koch. Mapmaker. A very unusual book

A very unusual book

Details the interesting past and present of Banks Peninsula plant life and describes it’s great diversity

There is also propagation and cultivation advice

First published in 2012 this is the latest revised edition

and of the people who made them

Augustus Koch. Mapmaker. A very unusual bookRolf W. Brednich. German born Koch settled in New Zealand in 1858. Hie brought with him one of the first lithographic presses and became the finest mapmaker in the country, working for the Dept. of Lands and Survey. Complete with his memoirs, this work illuminates the exploration and documentation of early European New Zealand. Superb full colour reproductions of some of his maps. A very large and impressive publication. 425mmx300mm. Steel Roberts