Author: MARCET, Edouard:
Title: Australie un voyage a travers le bush.
Description: Genève, Imprimerie de Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1868, in-8vo, 268 p. + 20 photogr. d'après les dessins de MM. G. Liquier et D. (d'après les indications de l'auteur) (10 à plein page de scènes rurales et avec aborigènes + 10 plus petites in-texte (animaux et curiosités (e.a. pyramides de pierres géantes d'Australie), reliure en d.-veau d'époque, dos à cinq nerfs orné or, pièce de titre. ¶ Illustrated with 20 original albumen prints (Poney phot.) after drawings (10 full-page, mounted on inserted leaves of heavy paper as plates, and 10 smaller images, mounted in-text in left out spaces for that purpose). Contemporary h.-calf, spine on 5 bands richly gold-tooled, with title piece. First edition, the original French edition, of Marcet's fictional narrative of life in Queensland, remarkably illustrated with mounted photographic reproductions of drawings. Edouard Marcet was a Swiss settler in Queensland, who also published two factual accounts of life in the colony. The present work includes descriptions and illustrations of dramatic encounters between settlers and the aboriginal people. It further describes Queensland's natural history. In very good condition, with only some spotting. A fascinating account of life in Queensland, illustrated by drawings reproduced as albumen prints. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Bibl. of Australian lit. III, p. 305; Boom & Rooseboom (eds.), A new art: photography in the 19th century, B265; Ferguson 12251.

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