A Journal of Events from Melbourne, Port Phillip, to Mount Schank in the District of Adelaide ... undertaken in 1843 ... with a Flock of 4000 Sheep ...
Hobart, Sullivan's Cove (hand-set and printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch), 1975/ 'first published Sheerness circa 1844'.
Small octavo, 46, [1] (colophon) pages.
Cloth with the two-colour paper title-label on the front cover; a fine copy with the dustwrapper very lightly tanned on the spine and a trifle marked.
Number 135 of 150 copies. The full title is almost a spoiler: 'A Journal of Events from Melbourne, Port Phillip, to Mount Schank in the District of Adelaide, New Holland, a Distance of 400 miles, undertaken in 1843 by Messrs Edward and Fortescue Arthur, sons of Captain Arthur, R.N., with a Flock of 4000 sheep, also, An Account of the Difficulties they experienced during a Sojourn of Twenty Months, which ended in the Total Failure of their Enterprise'. Provenance: Tom Austen Brown, with his pencilled initials on the front flyleaf.
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