The Founding of South Australia, as recorded in the Journals of Mr Robert Gouger, First Colonial Secretary
by [GOUGER, Robert] HODDER, Edwin (editor)
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- Hardcover
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston, and Company, 1898. Octavo, 239 pages plus 2 plates (a frontispiece portrait, and 'Mr Gouger's Tent and Hut' opposite page 203). Cloth very lightly rubbed and bumped; acidic text paper discoloured (mainly around the margins, as ever); a near-fine copy. The first publication of these important foundation journals. Ferguson 10475 (noting only the frontispiece portrait). Provenance: James Howard Johnson (1875-1947, a great-grandson of George Fife Angas), with his armorial bookplate. A couple of marginal notes in pencil are presumably in his hand.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 139452
- Title
- The Founding of South Australia, as recorded in the Journals of Mr Robert Gouger, First Colonial Secretary
- Author
- [GOUGER, Robert] HODDER, Edwin (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Australia;
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