Australia as it is: Its Settlements, Farms, and Gold Fields.
London: Colburn & Co, 1852. Hardcover. Australian content includes: on Western Australia, zoology (kangaroos), farming, wine growing, New South Wales, gold discoveries, flight to the diggings, geology of the gold fields, Victoria & gold fields, South Australia, Adelaide, and the discoveries of Sturt and Barker. Book plate of the noted Western Australian Paul Hasluck, Australian statesman who served as the 17th Governor-General of Australia.
2 volumes. 8vo, xii, 318pp, 16pp ads, engraved frontispiece "View of South Adelaide" (&) vi, 304pp, 16 pp ads, frontispiece. Chipping at edge of spine; front end paper Volume I detached but present. F11299. Good condition. Item #2551
Price: $400.00