Item #16207 Australia, Its History and Present Condition; Containing an Account Both of the Bush and of the Colonies, with their Respective Inhabitants. Rev. W. Pridden.
Australia, Its History and Present Condition; Containing an Account Both of the Bush and of the Colonies, with their Respective Inhabitants.
Australia, Its History and Present Condition; Containing an Account Both of the Bush and of the Colonies, with their Respective Inhabitants.

Australia, Its History and Present Condition; Containing an Account Both of the Bush and of the Colonies, with their Respective Inhabitants.

London: James Burns, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Includes many descriptions of the bush; rivers of New Holland; "comparative advantages of Europeans over Savages"; Means of Subsistence; Aboriginals; Infancy of New South Wales; settlement of Van Diemen's Land; Climate; Inhabitants of Australian Colonies (convict life); and Emigration.

Black and white folding map as frontispiece featuring the 2 new colonies of West and South Australia. Most chapters headed by steel engraved vignettes.

16mo, frontispiece, xiii, 363 pp, all edges gilt. Folding map of Australia as frontispiece, slightly ruffled at foredge. Three quarter black calf and blue cloth. Spine rubbed, some cracking along spine edge & front board; damp staining at margins only of early and late pages. OCLC: 492433. Good condition. Item #16207

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