[Rarebooks] FS: Uncommon and Attractively Illustrated Title on Australia, 1883
Charles Agvent
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Tue Sep 2 09:26:53 EDT 2014
BONWICK, James. PORT PHILLIP SETTLEMENT. London: Sampson Low, Marston,
Searle, & Rivington, 1883. First Edition. Octavo (5-1/2" x 9") bound in
the original blue cloth with a gilt-decoration of an Aboriginal hunting
a kangaroo on the front cover; x, 537, [1], [2 - ads] pages. Illustrated
with four folding facsimiles of letters; one folding facsimile of a
handwritten newspaper; a folding map; a double-page plate with numerous
facsimile signatures of Men of the Period; four full-page lithographed
views; 42 half-page illustrations on 21 lithographed plates (19 with 38
views, two with four portraits); four lithographed portraits of Hamilton
Hume, the White Wild Man, John Pascoe Fawkner, and Angus McMillan; and a
color lithograph frontispiece with a view of 'Melbourne, from the Falls,
1837.' Pencil signature of H. Britton dated 1884 on the front endpaper
and below that of Rod M. Sutherland dated Nov. 1949. Occasional light
spotting to text. A half-inch tear to the top of the spine, mild rubbing
to the edges. Near Fine copy of an uncommon book. (#015475) $350.00
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