Author: STORY, WILLIAM.
Title: Essay Upon The Agriculture Of Victoria. With Reference To Its Climate Advantages, And The Geological And Chemical Character Of Its Soils; The Rotation Of Crops, And The Sources And Applications Of Manures; The Zoological Economy Adapted For The Australian Colonies; And The Introduction Of Cotton And Other Warm-Climate Products Into An Australian System Of Husbandry: Being With Some Additions, Which Are Printed In A Lesser Type, The Essay Which Bore The Title "Agrarian." Illustrated By A Plan Of A Model Domain.
Description: 8vo; pp. x, 156, 145, iv, 100, iv, 48, iv, 29; fold out map frontispiece to William Story, appendix to Charles Mayes essay, appendices and index to William Henry Archers essay, fold out map frontispiece to Frederick Achesons essay; modern half leather binding retaining original purple boards, raised bands, title in gilt on maroon label on spine, cloth and leather dirtied and marked, new endpapers, a good copy. John Ferres Government Printer Melbourne, 1861. Melbourne, Blundell & Co. Printers, 1867. (All essays were pubished in 1861 except for William Henry Archers which was published in 1867). Bound together with four other essays Charles Mayes Essay On The Manufactures More Immediately Required For The Economical Development of the Resources Of The Colony; William Henry Archers The Progress of Victoria: A Statistical Essay; Frederick Achesons Essay on the Collection and Storage of Water in Victoria; and Henry Rosales Essay on the Origin and Distribution of Gold in Quartz Veins.

Keywords: Australian general history geology quarz veins gold mining agriculture soil crops resources progress