Item #136184 SOME PROPOSALS FOR ESTABLISHING COLONIES IN THE SOUTH SEAS. George Mackaness.

SOME PROPOSALS FOR ESTABLISHING COLONIES IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

Pp. 64(last blank), 5 full page illustrations; small cr. 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled, edges a trifle rubbed and creased; the title page faintly soiled; privately printed, Sydney, 1943. Edition limited to 100 copies, numbered and signed by the editor. Australian Historical Monographs series Volume VI. *'Intended to set out, from the original sources, and as far as possible, in the original form, the most important historically of the schemes for establishing colonies in the South Seas which have come down to us in printed form, extending from the days of James I, to the final plans which became reality in the year 1788, when Governor Phillip founded Australia' [Introduction]. Item #136184

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