A Princess of Strategy. The Life of Anne Louise Benedicte de Bourbon-Conde, Duchesse du Maine. Translated from the French of General de Piepape
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1911.
Octavo, xvi, 417, (16, catalogue) pages plus 17 illustrations (including a photogravure frontispiece).
Gilt-decorated cloth; top edge gilt; uncut; covers slightly flecked and marked; extremities slightly bumped; spine a little marked and sunned; endpapers lightly offset; a very good copy.
With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker (1841-1911), barrister, pastoralist and politician. Baker was 'the first South Australian-born member of the colonial legislature, being elected at the head of the poll for Barossa in the House of Assembly ... [and] became attorney-general in J. Hart's ministry of 1870-71, and the first locally born minister of the Crown... In 1877 he became the first native-born member to be elected to the Legislative Council; the whole colony then voted as one constituency and Baker came third in the poll. In 1885 he won the Southern seat which he represented without interruption until the formation of the Australian Commonwealth.... One of the founding fathers of Federation ... At the 1897-98 Federal convention, he played a part in the unsuccessful attempt to prevent Kingston's election as president but managed to keep him off the important drafting committee. Baker was elected to the arduous position of chairman of committees; his knowledge of parliamentary procedure, together with his tact and firmness, made him an ideal choice.' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). Baker died on 18 March 1911.
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