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HASLUCK, ALEXANDRA. - Royal Engineer. A Life of Sir Edmund DuCane.

Title: Royal Engineer. A Life of Sir Edmund DuCane.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. x, 132; colour portrait frontispiece, 14 colour and numerous b/w sketches by Sir Edmund DuCane, 9 portrait photographs, bibliography, references; chipped dustjacket with closed tear at front, a very good copy. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1973. A Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers; in 1852 he came to the Swan River Colony as Super Intendant of works for the convict establishment; he recorded many people and scenes in the colony, in watercolours and sketches, (reproduced here); he married Georgiana Molloys' daughter, Mary Dorothea.

Keywords: Australian local Western Australia history wa biography Alexander Hasluck Sir Edmund DuCane

Price: AUD 19.00 = appr. US$ 13.15 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 106377