Author: MELVILLE, HENRY
Title: The Present State of Australia, including New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and New Zealand, with practical hints on emigration: to which are added the land regulations, and description of the Aborigines and their habits.
Description: London, G. Willis. 1851, First Edition. Leather. Book, xiv, 392 pages, frontispiece and one map of Hobart and southern parts of Tasmania. Ex-General Assembly Library New Zealand with gilt stamp on front cover, front board detached. Includes general account of Aborigines; relations with settlers; history of Tasmanian Aborigines physical description; customs; life-style; government policy; account of trials and executions of Aborigines; Demarkation Proclamation, 1828; the black war; the last Tasmanians, 1848; includes extracts from History of Colonel Arthur's administration, 1836. Good-.

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