Item #101654 A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light, the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia. Thomas GILL.

GILL, Thomas

A Biographical Sketch of Colonel William Light, the Founder of Adelaide and the First Surveyor-General of the Province of South Australia

Adelaide, Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, 1911 [enlarged edition].

Octavo, [viii], 108, [vi], 84 pages plus 18 plates, 2 folding maps and 2 folding facsimile documents.

Gilt-pictorial full red roan, top edge gilt, others uncut; leather a little rubbed, a little discoloured on the spine and lightly marked on the front cover; an excellent copy.

Number 92 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by Thomas Gill. This is a deluxe, enlarged edition of a work first published as the Supplement to Volume 11 of the Proceedings of the RGSSA in the same year. The extra material includes text, maps and facsimile documents.