Item #109156 History of the City of Adelaide from the Foundation of the Province of South Australia in 1836, to the End of the Municipal Year 1877, with Appendix and Map. Thomas WORSNOP.

WORSNOP, Thomas

History of the City of Adelaide from the Foundation of the Province of South Australia in 1836, to the End of the Municipal Year 1877, with Appendix and Map

Adelaide, J. Williams, Printer and Publisher, 1878.

Octavo, xvi, 457, [1] (colophon), vi, 72 (advertisements) pages with several illustrations plus a large folding map (385 × 530 mm).

Cloth lightly rubbed and scuffed, with light wear to the corners; a few tears to the map, and a short tear to the blank margin of one leaf, expertly sealed; mild signs of handling; an excellent copy.

Ferguson 18879. Provenance: Alexander John Morison, Town Clerk of Adelaide, 1937-46, with his partially erased signature on the flyleaf, and a few pencilled corrections to the text.