'The Great South Land.' Four Papers on Emigration, designed to exhibit the Principles and Progress of the New Colony of South Australia. (Reprinted from the 'Stirling Observer')
by [SMILLIE, William]
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1962. Hardcover. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1962/ 1838. Octavo, [ii] (new preliminaries), [iv] (versos blank), iv-31 pages plus a folding map of the fledgling colony. Synthetic cloth; free endpapers tanned; a near-fine copy. Peade SA34: one of only 91 copies. This was one of the earliest facsimile editions published by the library, 'reproduced ... using the xerographic process', with the text bound from concertina-fold paper printed on one side only, uncut and unopened along the leading edges.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
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- 139837
- Title
- 'The Great South Land.' Four Papers on Emigration, designed to exhibit the Principles and Progress of the New Colony of South Australia. (Reprinted from the 'Stirling Observer')
- Author
- [SMILLIE, William]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Libraries Board of South Australia
- Place of Publication
- Adelaide
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Australia;
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Edges
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...