Item #84746 Three Years' Cruise in the Australasian Colonies. R. Edmond MALONE.
Three Years' Cruise in the Australasian Colonies

Three Years' Cruise in the Australasian Colonies

London, Richard Bentley, 1854.

Small octavo, viii, 304 pages with a quantity of tables.

Contemporary half calf and marbled papered boards, the spine gilt-decorated in compartments, with a contrasting title-label; marbled paper rubbed (heavily in spots), and worn along the edges; leather lightly rubbed at the extremities and a little worn at the corner tips; front flyleaf removed; occasional light foxing and minimal signs of use; a very good copy.

Malone, a ship's paymaster, was 'appointed to HMS "Fantome", going to the Australia and New Zealand station . from 1850-53. Having seen all parts of the Australian colonies - having mixed in every society - and having formed an impartial judgment as to their several merits, some little account of the trip . may probably be of use at the present time. I passed nearly two years in the North American Colonies, and have visited the States, and can therefore speak of the Antipodean possessions in relation to them' (preface). Ferguson 12214.

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