Reflections on New South Wales 1788-1839

A$3,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Sydney : Hordern House, 2001. Deluxe edition, on large paper and custom bound, limited to 28 copies (this is no. 20). Large quarto (310 x 225 mm), in the publisher s specially commissioned binding by Newbold and Collins of quarter vellum over glazed boards, spine stamped in gilt; pp. xxxii, 670; with a frontispiece portrait, 20 maps and illustrations, and 8 colour plates; tiny mark to upper board, a touch of foxing to the top- and fore-edges of the text block, otherwise pristine. This, along with the regular issue, represents the only edition in English of Freycinet s comprehensive examination of early New South Wales, one of the most important historical texts to deal with Australian settlement, and especially with the city of Sydney. (Hordern House)

• Binding: Hardcover

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