Round the Compass in Australia. Presentation copy
by Parker, Gilbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good overall
- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson, 1892. Hardcover. Very good overall. Presentation copy to the Authors' Club of London, "the Rt. Hon. Sir Gilbert Parker" written in period ink on the bookplate of Authors' Club, and dated in period ink December 1925. The bookplate of Dr. Ian Keith McGill also present. Much material on Victoria, SA, NSW, Queensland & Western Australia, including the centennial Exhibition, forest conservation, Broken Hill, railways, Perth & Fremantle, and Confederation 1890 & 1891.
8vo, frontispiece portrait, xii, 448,(4), illustrations in text. Bound in the original silver gilt maroon cloth, chipped at base of spine; text and illustrations bright and clean. Trove 2199027; Ferguson 13776.
8vo, frontispiece portrait, xii, 448,(4), illustrations in text. Bound in the original silver gilt maroon cloth, chipped at base of spine; text and illustrations bright and clean. Trove 2199027; Ferguson 13776.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12428
- Title
- Round the Compass in Australia. Presentation copy
- Author
- Parker, Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good overall
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIA;
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