[AUSTRALIA] Mudie: The Picture of Australia
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Robert Mudie
The Picture of Australia, exhibiting New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, and all the Settlements, from the First at Sydney to the Last at Swan River
London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1829.
21cm x 12.5cm. 12 advertisments, x 370 pages, 1 folding map, [2] advertisements. Later half leather, marbled boards, gilt lettering, all edges uncut.
With descriptions of the geography, botany, zoology, history, the Great Barrier Reef, and new Swan River Colony (now Perth). This copy also has 12 pages of publisher’s advertisements for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green dated September 1829 bound in at the front. FERGUSON 1282.
Leather covering of spine dry and flaking, map with old linen-backing, map, title and first and last few leaves foxed. Good Condition.
Provenance: Bookplate of G. K. Cowlishaw.
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