HISTORICAL RECORDS OF VICTORIA. Foundation series.
Seven volumes in eight, totalling over 4,000 pages, with 56 coloured plates (8 folding), numerous black & white text illustrations (2 folding), pictorial endpapers Volumes 1-6, maps, addenda, indices; narrow cr. 4to; Volume 1 full brown leather, spine lettered in gilt, upper board lettered and decorated in blind, all other volumes in the standard issue grey cloth, spines lettered in gilt, a couple of tiny bruises to bottom edges Volumes 2A & 7; dust wrappers, backstrip of Volume 5 a trifle marked; security sticker on lower pastedown Volume 7; Victorian Government Printing Office/ Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1981-1998. Volume I first deluxe edition, others first trade edition. *A cumulative index was later published as Volume 8. The volumes are: 1. Beginnings of Permanent Government; 2A. Aborigines of Port Phillip, 1835-1839; 2B. Aborigines and Protectors 1838-1839; 3. The Early Development of Melbourne, 1836-1839; 4. Communications Trade and Transport, 1836-1839; 5. Surveyors' problems and achievements, 1836-1839; 6. The Crown, the land, and the squatter, 1835-1840. 7. Public Finance of Port Phillip 1836-1840.. Item #177494
Price: $500.00