Australien. Geschichte und Beschreibung der drei Australischen Kolonien: Neu-Süd-Wales, Victoria und Süd-Australien. Nach der 2ten Auflage des englischen Originals übersetzt von C. Volckhausen. Zweite Ausgabe
Hamburg, Otto Meissner, 1857 (second edition)/ [1854 (first German edition)/ 1853 (second edition)/ 1852].
Octavo, vi, 410 (last blank), [6] (index) pages.
Original half cloth and marbled papered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges marbled; covers slightly worn at the extremities; cloth on the spine a little marked, with an old indistinct shelf number at the foot; inner endpaper hinge broken, but the cover is still firmly attached by the cords; title leaf foxed, with scattered foxing elsewhere; minor signs of use and age; a very good copy.
A German-language edition of 'The Three Colonies of Australia. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. Their Pastures, Copper Mines, & Gold Fields'. Provenance: the Nuriootpa Institute library, with its contemporary 'Extracts from Rules' paper label on the front pastedown (with the reference number G363), and an inkstamp on both flyleaves (with the reference number 172 in ink inside the front one). The Barossa Valley, where Nuriootpa is situated, attracted large numbers of German immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s, fleeing religious persecution in their homeland.
Item #131000
Price (AUD):
$400.00