Author: RUSSELL, HENRY STUART.
Title: The Genesis Of Queensland. An account of the first exploring journeys to and over the Darling Downs: the earliest days of their occupation; social life; station seeking, the course of discovery, northward and westward and a resume of the causes which led to separation from New South Wales with Portrait and fac-similes of maps, &c., &c.
Description: First Edition; Roy. 8vo; pp. xvi, 636; portrait frontispiece (Patrick Leslie), folding sketch map of the Balonne river, folding sketch map of Botany Bay, folding plan of the entrance of Endeavour River, folding facsimile of portion of muster roll of H.M.S. "Resolute" and facsimile portion of Cook's Log of H.M.S. "Endeavour", bound in original brown cloth, title and decoration on spine, some mild foxing to first and last few pages, contemporary inscription on front endpaper, nice bright copy. Sydney; Turner & Henderson; MDCCCLXXXVIII, [1888]. Fergusson 15296. Reminiscences of a pioneer with much early exploration interest.
Keywords: discovery exploration Queensland discovery exploration Torres Quiros separation Doctor Lang Patrick Leslie Melville island Allan Cunningham Norfollk Island Port Essington Owen Stanley Rattlesnake Moender Bremer Captain Philip King Mermaid Captain Logan La
Title: The Genesis Of Queensland. An account of the first exploring journeys to and over the Darling Downs: the earliest days of their occupation; social life; station seeking, the course of discovery, northward and westward and a resume of the causes which led to separation from New South Wales with Portrait and fac-similes of maps, &c., &c.
Description: First Edition; Roy. 8vo; pp. xvi, 636; portrait frontispiece (Patrick Leslie), folding sketch map of the Balonne river, folding sketch map of Botany Bay, folding plan of the entrance of Endeavour River, folding facsimile of portion of muster roll of H.M.S. "Resolute" and facsimile portion of Cook's Log of H.M.S. "Endeavour", bound in original brown cloth, title and decoration on spine, some mild foxing to first and last few pages, contemporary inscription on front endpaper, nice bright copy. Sydney; Turner & Henderson; MDCCCLXXXVIII, [1888]. Fergusson 15296. Reminiscences of a pioneer with much early exploration interest.
Keywords: discovery exploration Queensland discovery exploration Torres Quiros separation Doctor Lang Patrick Leslie Melville island Allan Cunningham Norfollk Island Port Essington Owen Stanley Rattlesnake Moender Bremer Captain Philip King Mermaid Captain Logan La
Price: AUD 390.00 = appr. US$ 269.83 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 116384
- Book number: 116384