Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences (Illustrated) Together with Portraits of some of the Founders of Australia. ... Ed. by J.J. Knight.

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Brisbane: Gordon and Gotch (1896). Small 8vo. Orig. red cloth (slightly discoloured with bumped spine). Gilt. (viii 424pp.). With folding frontispiece 22 full-page b/w plates dec. initials dec. tail-pieces and patterned endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate in the front end-paper. End-papers are slightly soiled otherwise fine copy. NOTE: An important work focusing on Australia from 1849 to 1894. With much on Melbourne Sydney Brisbane and the relevant states; subjects like 'The Lady Augusta' the Constitution the Anti-Transportation debate 'The Incursions of the Blacks' Squatting John Petrie and the Liberty of the Press.