Author: LEE, SARAH. [Mrs. Robert] (Formerly Mrs. T. E. Bowdich,).
Title: The Australian Wanderers Or The Adventures Of Captain Spence In The Bush And The Wilds: Containing Accurate Descriptions of the Habits of the Natives, and the Natural Productions and Features of The Country.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. xii, 364, plus 20 pages of advertisements at rear; engraved frontispiece, text with three full paged engraved illustrations, advertisements, bound in original blue blind-stamped cloth, title and decoration in gilt on spine, some mild foxing to early and last pages, good copy. London; Grant and Griffith; 1851. Fictionalized account of wanderings throughout Australia. Ferguson 11534. Muir (4159) supposes text was originally intended for children.

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