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Book Description 4to, 256pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 119355
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine and part of front jacket sun faded. Covered in mylar since new. Internally Fine. Seller Inventory # 012102
Book Description 1st Ed. 256 PP with 243 b/w or colour plates and appendixes, notes, bibliography & index. Original cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edges. Folded flyer loosely inserted. Fine. 35 x 25.5. A collector's item. Seller Inventory # 14110
Book Description Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 256 pp., list of plates, acknowledgements, 4 appendices, notes, bibliography and index. Dark blue coloured endpapers. Illustrated title page, showing an early parrot illustration. The text is illustrated with over 240 illustrations -- some full-page & many coloured. Bone/ecru coloured cloth binding with gilt line down spine gutter edge and gilt writing on the spine. Illustrated dust wrapper, showing a Port Jackson Aborigine, with pale blue background with white and black writing on the front panel and on the spine. Within the book there are many illustrations which are published for the first time. The book provides for the first time a comprehensive visual supplement to the First Fleet journals of Governor Phillip, Surgeon John White, Captain Watkin Tench, Captain John Hunter and Judge-Advocate David Collins. The illustrations include over 70 of the aborigines, over 90 topographical views and original sketch charts etc., over 70 natural history subjects (including some superb coloured illustrations of birds) and a number of other illustrations of historical interest. Expert commentary on the illustrations of aborigines is by R. J. Lampert; on the maps and topographical drawings by T. M. Perry; on the social history and depiction of the early settlement by Alan Frost; on the natural history and scientific knowledge by J. H. Calaby; and on the artwork and its historical context by Bernard Smith. ] the book is second-hand. There is no damage to detail. Size: Folio ( 12"- 15" tall ). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Australia; History. ISBN: 0195548884. ISBN/EAN: 9780195548884. Inventory No: 0248977. Seller Inventory # 0248977
Book Description Small folio,256 pp.,illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. This volume contains many little-known works of art from the voyage of the first fleet and from the early years of settlement, selected from more than 600 drawings and paintings of Australian subjects held in the British Museum (Natural History). Seller Inventory # 419
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket, large folio art book Size: Folio. Seller Inventory # 220124-MB22