Author: PECH, EMILE.
Title: Un Oncle D'Austtralie. Text in French.
Description: Elephant 8vo; pp. [ii], 286; illustrated with 73 engravings in the text of which 18 are full page, original richly coloured pictorial and gilt decorated cloth, all edges gilt, title lettered in gilt on spine, prize label on front endpaper, good bright copy. Paris; Ancienne Librairie Furne, Combet &, Cie, Editeurs, 5, Rue Palatine; n.d. [c 1895]. Set principally in Victoria, particularly on the Victorian goldfields. The illustrations are mostly of such accuracy that they must have been engraved from photographs or other contemporary illustrations ( the Melbourne auctioneer, Gemmell Tuckett and Co's hording, for instance , [opposite page 130] is present in one full-page Melbourne street scene illustrating characters battering on a city door).
Keywords: goldfields melbourne victoria childrens literature foreign language
Title: Un Oncle D'Austtralie. Text in French.
Description: Elephant 8vo; pp. [ii], 286; illustrated with 73 engravings in the text of which 18 are full page, original richly coloured pictorial and gilt decorated cloth, all edges gilt, title lettered in gilt on spine, prize label on front endpaper, good bright copy. Paris; Ancienne Librairie Furne, Combet &, Cie, Editeurs, 5, Rue Palatine; n.d. [c 1895]. Set principally in Victoria, particularly on the Victorian goldfields. The illustrations are mostly of such accuracy that they must have been engraved from photographs or other contemporary illustrations ( the Melbourne auctioneer, Gemmell Tuckett and Co's hording, for instance , [opposite page 130] is present in one full-page Melbourne street scene illustrating characters battering on a city door).
Keywords: goldfields melbourne victoria childrens literature foreign language
Price: AUD 250.00 = appr. US$ 172.97 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 106991
- Book number: 106991