Snell Edward Griffiths Tom Editor (3 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HEAVY. xliv, 400pp, index, bibliography, bw & col ills, maps. Brown boards in jacket. Light edge wear, tiny (5mm) tear at top of rear flap fold, sticker remnant on rear. Edward Snell's Australian diary, long regarded as one of the treasures of the State Library of Victoria's Australian Manuscripts Collection, is here published in its entirity for the first time. Size: 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. North Ryde, Angus & Robertson, Publishers and The Library Council of Victoria, 1988. Quarto, xliv, 480 pages with numerous illustrations (some in colour, including 2 double-page) and 7 maps. Papered boards slightly rubbed at the bottom edge; top edge and endpapers slightly foxed; endpapers lightly tanned; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (lightly sunned and bumped). With an informative introduction by the editor.…

First Edition. Pp. xliv+480, frontispiece portrait, numerous text illustrations (mostly black & white, several full or double page), 7 maps (full or double page), bibliography, indices; thick cr. 4to; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, several small mall surface grazes to bottom edges and one near head of spine; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1988. First edition. *The diary records Snell's voyage to and from the colonies, and his experiences in South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria - where, after spending time on the goldfields near Bendigo, he won the contract to build Australia's first country railway, from Geelong to Melbourne.…