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United Empire The Royal Colonial Institute Journal. Volume II (New Series) 1911
by Colquhoun, Archibald R. [Editor]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. 1911. Large Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Red cloth boards. Ex Royal Society of South Australia Library with several stamps. 3 fold out maps, in-text maps. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Spine a little sunned. 922 pages. Twelve issues of the Journal. Includes considerable material on [then] African colonies, Australia and Canada, New Zealand, South East Asia. Also includes an 2 part essay 'Ceylon, The Malay States and Java Compared as Plantation and Residential Colonies' and 2 part essay on Imperial Telegraphs (Bright), Papua and Papuans (Jenkins), The Universities of Australia (Inglis), British Diplomacy and Canada (Includes fold-out maps). There is also a paper 'Deadlocks in the Australian Parliament' by Harney. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB322496
- Title
- United Empire The Royal Colonial Institute Journal. Volume II (New Series) 1911
- Author
- Colquhoun, Archibald R. [Editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
- Bookseller catalogs
- History-UK & Ireland;
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