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ROSS, JAMES. - The Settler in Van Diemen's Land.

Title: The Settler in Van Diemen's Land.
Description: Limited First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. 127; tipped-in frontispiece, 5 b/w. tipped-in drawings; original quarter leather, title lettered in gilt on spine, fine copy.(original was issued with a dustjacket). Melbourne; Marsh Walsh Publishing; 1975. Limited edition of 350 numbered copies. This being copy number 44. The text for this volume is taken from the Hobart Town Almanack for 1836 edited and published by Ross. The illustrations to the text were chosen from 'A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies' by James Backhouse, London 1943.

Keywords: Australian local history Tasmania Van Diemen's Land bushrangers education settler Hobart town gazzette

Price: AUD 95.00 = appr. US$ 65.73 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 120714