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GOUGER, Robert

South Australia in 1837, in a Series of Letters. With a Postscript as to 1838

London, Harvey and Darton, 1838 [first edition]. A presentation copy in a presentation binding, inscribed on the flyleaf to 'The Revd. H.M. Villiers, with the author's best regards'. Robert Gouger (1802-1846), 'Earnest, persistent and practical, ... [with] a pleasant manner and a persuasive tongue, but he was inclined to exaggerate..... More

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Item #139452 The Founding of South Australia, as recorded in the Journals of Mr Robert Gouger,...

[GOUGER, Robert] HODDER, Edwin (editor)

The Founding of South Australia, as recorded in the Journals of Mr Robert Gouger, First Colonial Secretary

London, Sampson Low, Marston, and Company, 1898. The first publication of these important foundation journals. Ferguson 10475 (noting only the frontispiece portrait). Provenance: James Angas Johnson (1875-1947, a great-grandson of George Fife Angas), with his armorial bookplate. A couple of marginal notes in pencil are presumably in his hand. More