Author: HASLUCK, ALEXANDRA. Title: Royal Engineer. A Life of Sir Edmund DuCane.
Description: 8vo; pp. x, 132; colour portrait frontispiece, 14 colour and numerous b/w sketches by Sir Edmund DuCane, 9 portrait photographs, bibliography, references; dustjacket, a fine copy. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1973. A Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers; in 1852 he came to the Swan River Colony as Superintendant of works for the convict establishment; he recorded many people and scenes in the colony, in watercolours and sketches, (reproduced here); he married Georgiana Molloys' daughter, Mary Dorothea.
Keywords: Australian local Western Australia history wa biography Sir Edmund DuCane
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- Book number: 39827