Author: FLETCHER, PRICE; BOYD, A. J; POOLE, WILLIAM; EARLE, HORACE; STAIGER, K. T; WRIGHT, THEODORE: GORDON, P. R.
Title: Queensland: It's Resources And Institutions: Queensland An Introductory Essay: The Mineral Industries Of Queensland: Agriculture Of Queensland: The Sugar Industry Of Queensland: The Pastoral Industry In Queensland: Horticulture: Hints To Immigrants. A Practical Essay Upon Bush Life In Queensland: A Popular Sketch Of The Natural History Of Queensland: Essays. Issued In Connection With The Colonial And Indian Exhibition, 1886.
Description: First Edition: 8vo; pp. 220 approx; numerous b/w sketch illustrations; rebound in modern black cloth; pages have foxing; some pages chipped and worn; a good copy. London, William Clowes, 1887. Essays. Issued In Connection With The Colonial And Indian Exhibition, 1886 published in book form in 1887. Large folding map of Queensland. Articles covered within the Essays includes railways, waterworks, physical features, telegraphies, religion and large article on Defence and recent threat of war with Russia and arrival of two gun boats and a torpedo boat and gunboat " Gayundah " and torpedo boat "Mosquito" The Hints to Immigrants by Price is illustrated and includes many essential aspects such as tent life, bark huts, tree falling and tools, splitting shingles, slab huts, hut furniture [fire crane to hang pots over fire place]: and how to preserve meat. Includes Ferguson 9642, 9643, 9645, with only the one map of Queensland tipped in as frontispiece.

Keywords: queensland natural history geology sugar cane pastoral sheep horticulture johnsonian club