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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. title page clipped. Seller Inventory # 012601
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Printed in double column. xiii, 353pp, b/w ills throughout, notes, five appendices, bibliography, index, end-paper maps: Van Diemen's Land. Olive cloth boards in dust-jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket inc 1cm tear at top of rear spine fold, some minor silverfishing to bottom edge of boards. The book traces 'the lives and experiences of the specially selected 308 convicts transported in HMS Calcutta in 1803. The convicts arrived at Port Phillip and moved to the Derwent where they began the settlement which became Hobart. As social history, the book reveals much about the interchanges between felon and free, male and female, in early colonial days. The work also includes meticulous biographies of every Calcutta convict, with many surnames of the thousands of descendants. Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 051614
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Map of Van Diemen's Land front and back cover. Including insert of the Furneaux group of islands. B&W photographs and illustrations throughout. Includes Biographies p.248 to p. 326 and Appendices A to E (p. 327 to 331). 29 cm x 22 cm. 353 pp. Over 1 kg, may require extra postage. Seller Inventory # 003163