An Historical Account of the Colony of New South Wales

by James Wallis

$38,500 · Offered by Hordern House

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1821. Folio, with a map and 12 engraved plates, six of them large and folding, the other six full-page; complete with the half-title and the preliminary leaf not always present containing extracts from the Sydney Gazette; a very good copy with large margins in a fine russia leather binding by Aquarius. Australia's first view book, celebrating Macquarie's New South Wales

• Binding: Leather

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