Our Pastoral Industry
Adelaide, Australian 'Garden & Field', 1910.
Quarto, [ii] (title leaf, verso blank), vi, 56, viii, 57-684, xvi pages with numerous illustrations from photographs (including a folding panorama) plus 19 folding panoramic plates, a colour plate and an erratum slip (at page 563: 'For "Bennett" read "Bennet" throughout this section').
Original half morocco and cloth, with marbled edges and gilt-patterned endpapers (but lacking the rear flyleaf); cloth mottled (as often) and slightly worn along the edges; a few small stains and creases internally, with some short marginal tears expertly sealed; a very good copy.
A rare South Australian pastoralists' who's who. Provenance: 'E.A. Brooks, Buckland Park, S. Aust' is written in ink across the front pastedown, and in pencil at the head of the title page. The pioneering pastoralist George Brooks (1849-1926) and his son Edmund Albert Brooks purchased 'the picturesque estate at Buckland Park, comprising 20,000 acres ... situated about 25 miles north of Adelaide' from Leonard Browne in 1910. The property is featured in this volume under 'The Brownes of Moorak, Buckland Park, and Booboorowie' (pages 137-156 plus two large folding plates). George Brooks appears as the owner of Boconnoc Park (pages 503-510 plus a large folding plate).
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