Author: BRODRIBB, WILLIAM ADAMS; BENNETT, LAVINIA HASELL.
Title: Recollections of An Australian Squatter by William Adams Brodribb & Account of a Journey to Gipps Land by Lavinia Hasell Bennett.
Description: Limited Edition; Med. 4to; "Recollections of an Australian Squatter" pp. xiv, 1-166; 1 tipped-in plate, 6 appendices; "Account of a Journey to Gipps Land", pp. (iii), 172-202; 2 full page tipped-in plates, 13 small tipped-in text illusts., sources, index; bound in quarter brown leather with beige cloth boards, housed in beige cloth illustrated slipcase, very good copy. Melbourne; Queensberry Press; 1976. Limited edition of numbered 350 copies. `Recollections of an Australian Squatter', has valuable source material on early pastoral development and the exploration and settlement of Gippsland. `The Journey to Gipps Land', is a diary record of the trials and tribulations of the first overlanding of cattle from Port Phillip to Gippsland in 1844.

Keywords: Australian Local History Victoria Gippsland