Author: DAY, DAVID.
Title: Smugglers And Sailors. The Customs History of Australia 1788 - 1901.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 528; illustrated endpapers, 24 pages coloured plates, numerous b/w. text illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Canberra; Australian Government Publishing Service; 1992. Smugglers and Sailors tells the dramatic story of European civilisation being carved onto the Australian continent, as observed through the windows of the various colonial Custom Houses. The early Customs officers were assigned to supervise trade and commerce, promote the manners and morals of their fellow pioneers and raise the all-important revenue for the colonial treasuries.
Keywords: Australian Customs Service history administration New South Wales nsw
Title: Smugglers And Sailors. The Customs History of Australia 1788 - 1901.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 528; illustrated endpapers, 24 pages coloured plates, numerous b/w. text illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Canberra; Australian Government Publishing Service; 1992. Smugglers and Sailors tells the dramatic story of European civilisation being carved onto the Australian continent, as observed through the windows of the various colonial Custom Houses. The early Customs officers were assigned to supervise trade and commerce, promote the manners and morals of their fellow pioneers and raise the all-important revenue for the colonial treasuries.
Keywords: Australian Customs Service history administration New South Wales nsw
Price: AUD 35.00 = appr. US$ 24.22 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 120361
- Book number: 120361