Author: JAMES, T. HORTON.
Title: Six Months in South Australia; With Some Account of Port Philip and Portland Bay, in Australia Felix. Introduced by Valmai Hankel.
Description: Limited Special Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. (xvi), 300; 1 fold out b/w map; bound in original quarter leather with green cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, a fine copy. Adelaide; Friends of the State Library of South Australia; 1999. Title originally read "Six Months in South Australia; With Some Account of Port Philip and Portland Bay, in Australia Felix; With Advice to Emigrants; to which is added a Monthly Calender of Gardening and Agriculture. Adapted to the Climate and Seasons.". The original copy was published in 1838 in London by J. Cross Holborn and Simpkin and Marshall. This copy is a limited edition of 600 copies of which 99 are numbered and bound in quarter leather, this being No. 51.

Keywords: South Australia local Australian history Australia discovery exploration T. Horton James