The Colony of Western Australia :

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Limited edition

a manual for emigrants to that settlement or its dependencies : comprising its discovery, settlement, Aborigines, land-regulations, principles of colonial emigration, statistical, financial, and agricultural reports, also instructions and hints to settlers, directions for the anchorages, c., with the most correct map extant. By Nathaniel Ogle. With an appendix, containing the governor s commission, land-regulations, a list of the names of the proprietors, their original grants and number of acres, tenures, conditions, transfers, c., taken from official documents. London : James Fraser, 1839. Octavo, original cloth (rubbed, corners bumped), lettered in gilt on spine; pp. xii, four engraved plates (two folding), 298, lx (the last four leaves being folding tables); hinges cracked, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. This important early emigrant s manual was issued in two states: the first had a folding map in an end-pocket, while the second state, as here, was issued without a map. Ferguson, 2819 (second issue).

• Binding: Hardcover

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