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Uncut and In original Australian binding - "A Geographical Dictionary of the Australian Colonies" - Sydney 1848 - With locally printed map of Australia and early plates of Sydney
Uncut and In original Australian binding - "A Geographical Dictionary of the Australian Colonies" - Sydney 1848 - With locally printed map of Australia and early plates of Sydney
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"A Geographical Dictionary; or, Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies: Their Physical and Political Geography, together with a brief notice of all the Capitals, Principal Towns and Villages; Also of rivers, bays, gulfs, mountains, population and general statistics."
This is interesting contemporary description of Australia, Illustrated by a folding hand coloured map of Australia, 22 full-page lithographic hand coloured county maps and 4 full-page engraved views of Sydney.
-Published and printed in Sydney by W. & F. Ford, 1848.
-Royal 8vo. Bound in contemporary cloth biding, rebacked, with small printed map of Australia laid down on front cover. Some foxing and old pencil marks to pages.
-Binding with ticket of Kern and Mader, 7 Hunter Street, Sydney
-Complete: xvi, 438, 16pp of advertisements
At the end of the book, 16 pages of adverts give an interesting insight into trade at the time. They include a fascinating image of a man smoking a hookah as an advertisement for tobacco.
Ferguson 4949.
