Author: O'BRIEN, ERIS.
Title: The Foundation of Australia (1786-1800). A Study in Penal Colonisation.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. (xvi), 432; 5 appendices, notes, bibliography, index; original stiff illustrated wrappers, flecking to page edges, spine and corners bumped, browning to front free endpaper, spotting to first front and back pages, good copy. London, Sheed & Ward, 1936. Proof copy. The 1937 Edition had the subtitle " A Study in English Criminal Practice and Penal Colonisation in the Eighteenth Century".

Keywords: Australian local history New South Wales convict penal settlement colonisation 1786 1800 Australia foundation NSW nsw Sydney