Author: BLOSSEVILLE ( ERNEST PORET MARQUIS DE ). Title: Histoire de la colonisation penale et des etablissements de I'Angleterre dans I'Australie. French Text.
Description: Demy 8vo; pp. [iv], viii, xxxii, x, 569; marbled endpapers, contemporary quarter leather, marbled boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, bookplate on front endpaper, some foxing, good copy. Evreux; Impimerie De Augste Herissey; 1859. Ferguson. 7152a. First published in 1831 under title Histoire des colonies penales de I'Angleterre dans I'Australia. Same edition published in 2 tomes in 1859 and also this single volume edition published in the same year. Jules Blosseville spent nearly a month in New South Wales in 1822 the reports that he made at that time along with his diaries form the basis of this book written by his older brother Ernest.
Keywords: New South Wales pernal colony history
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