Description of the Barossa Range and its Neighbourhood in South Australia by .... Illustrated with Maps and Coloured Plates, from Original Drawings made on the Spot, by George French Angas
Adelaide, South Australian Government Printer, 1979 (facsimile edition)/ 1849.
Large quarto, [iv], [ii] (facsimile wrapper), 19 pages plus 6 colour plates, all with tissue-guards, (after hand-coloured lithographs by George French Angas), 2 maps (one folding) and endpaper maps.
Cream cloth with a contrasting gilt-lettered title-label on the front cover; tissue-guards tanned; a fine copy in the original packaging (a little marked and slightly damaged).
Number 276 of 400 copies of the standard issue; 100 copies in full calf were also produced. The text has 'usually been attributed to John Howard Angas [the artist's brother], but there is little doubt that George Fife [Angas, his father] prepared the text, albeit with assistance from his sons and from George Gawler' (Philip Jones: 'Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand, 1844-1845', page 97).
Item #146774
Price (AUD):
$125.00