HISTORY OF AUSTRAL-ASIA: Comprising New South Wales, Van Diemen's Island, Swan River, South Australia, &c.
London: John Mortimer, 2, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, MDCCCXXXVI (1836). First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original brown cloth decorated in blind on front & rear covers & spine, spine lettered in gold. Pp [i] - vi]; [1], 2-371; [372: printer's imprint]; [372-381: Prospectus, Synopsis, Critical Reviews]; 24 pp publisher's catalogue, undated, bound in. Frontispiece engraving of Sydney Harbour, title leaf with small engraved vignette of The Great Seal of New South Wales; two engraved folding maps hand-coloured in outline: one of "New South Wales, Eastern Coast of Terra Australis, Or, New Holland", the other of "Van Diemen's Island". Small stains to margins of the frontispiece. Cloth split along top2-inches of front spine hinge; two horizontal splits to cloth on spine, neatly repaired; a good to very good copy. Item #313670
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