History of Australia

A$500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Melbourne : Melville, Mullen Slade, 1897. Second edition. Three volumes, octavo, in fine presentation binding of gull polished calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled, lettered nd tooled in gilt, contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, armorial stamp for Scotch College, Melbourne to upper panels, edges slightly scuffed, marbled edges and endpapers, prize label to front pastedown of the first volume, pp. xxiv; 625; xiv; 688; x; 522; xcii, a fine set. A detailed timeline of European settlement of Australia, outlining the administrations of individual colonial governors, early immigration, the cessation of convict transportation, and the gold rushes, with an unusually sympathetic treatment of the indigenous population. First published in 1883, this is the second, revised edition.

• Binding: Hardcover

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