Author: Godfrey Charles Mundy
Title: Our Antipodes or Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies with a Glimpse of the Gold Fields
Description: Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1852. Second Edition, Revised, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Blue blind-printed covers with gilt decoration and lettering. Spines are worn at ends and corners are bumped and scuffed, cloth is rubbed and beginning to split on rear joint of volume I and paper is split showing webbing on front inner hinge volume III. Plate between pages 340 and 341 in volume III is partially detached Separation between pages 208/209 in Volume III, Binding is otherwise sound although a little skewed. All 15 plates are present with tissue protection leaf. Pages are a little darkened and there is intermittent foxing of varying intensity. Darkened endpapers with previous owner's name at front. Plates are: Mounted Police and Blacks, a Hencounter; Hartley Chapel and Court House; Coombing Near Carcoar; Fording the Bell River; A Kangaroo Hunt; Sydney - Government House and Farm Cove; Auckland, New Zealand; Rocking the Cradle, Turon River; Illawarra - a Salt Lagoon; Mountain Road, Five Islands; Eagle Hawk Neck; Convict Tram-Way; Ophir Gold Mines; Summerhill Creek ner Land's Point; The Lower Wallari Rocks. 3-volume set (complete). No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-4kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 60716031315. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.. ISBN: 0718510925

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