Author: SCHAEFER RUTLIDGE, CHARLES,
Title: Guide to Queensland. Compiled from Official and Private Records, with the recognition of The Hon. Sir Horace Tozer. [First edition].
Description: London, Dean & Son, [Circa], 1900. Small 8°. Original cloth. Large gilded and coloured image of a boomerang tooled on front cover, partly gilded and coloured title tooled on spine. [6], 174, [4]pp. Many captioned monochrome plates after photographs mainly featuring topographical views of buildings, 2 portraits, comparative tables in text, notice on Queensland mineral resources, very large coloured engraved fold. map at front illustrating Queensland Reilway system including branch tracks, local advertism. throughout, index, table of contents. Copy inscrubed by author, not signed however. Supplies ample detailed information on Queensland at the turn of the nineteenth century: Progress and range of Natural resources, Agriculture, Horticulture, forestry pisciculture, Mineral, wealth, Cities and Towns, Features, means of access, commercial, and social conditions. Very good copy in orig. decorative publ. cloth. Inscribed copy.

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