Recollections of an Australian Squatter by William Adams Brodribb, & Account of a Journey to Gipps Land by Lavinia Hasell Bennett
Melbourne, Queensberry Hill Press, 1976 (first thus).
Quarto, [iii]-xiv, 205 pages with 16 tipped-in plates (13 of them facsimiles of pages in Lavinia's diary; one outside the pagination) plus a folding map.
Quarter calf and cloth (hand-bound at the Dove Bindery, Melbourne); a couple of trifling finger marks internally; a near fine copy in the near fine slipcase (with a circular plate mounted on the front panel).
Number 173 of 350 numbered copies. William Adams Brodribb (1809-1886) was a pioneering pastoralist and politician in Victoria and New South Wales. His 'Recollections of an Australian Squatter, or Leaves from My Journal Since 1835' was first published in Sydney in 1883. It is paired with the diary of his sister Lavinia Hasell Bennett, published here for the first time, recounting the first overlanding of cattle from Port Phillip to Gippsland in 1844. Loosely inserted is a copy of the original prospectus (a bifolium, subsequently folded in three).
Item #148067
Price (AUD):
$180.00