South Australia. Its Advantages and its Resources. Being a Description of that Colony and a Manual of Information for Emigrants
London, John Murray, 1848.
Octavo, xii, 392, [4] (advertisements) pages plus a folding map (215 × 170 mm).
Original blind-stamped cloth slightly bumped at the edges and very slightly rubbed at the head and foot of the spine; front joint slightly split; an excellent copy, and rare thus in our experience, as the original cloth is prone to wear.
For 'the most part the result of seven years' personal observation in the Colony of South Australia, and contains, from this source, detailed statements on the prospects of labourer and farmer, on Agriculture, Stock Farming, Building, Gardening, Manufacturing in various branches ... and Mining and Mineral Productions'. There are chapters on overlanding (31 pages) and Aborigines (52 pages). Provenance: Tom Austen Brown (1925-2009), solicitor, collector and philanthropist, with his pencilled ownership initials. 'In 2011 the University of Sydney used his substantial bequest to establish both the Tom Austen Brown Chair in Australian Anthropology, the first such chair at an Australian university, and the publication series Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology' ('Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation', online).
Item #10550
Price (AUD):
$750.00