The Genesis of Queensland

Henry Stuart Russell
Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1888.
First Edition.

27cm x 16.5cm. [ii], 633, [3], pages, frontispiece portrait, 4 folding plates (3 maps, 1 facsimile of Cook’s Log). Brown cloth, gilt lettering.

An account of the first exploring journeys to and over Darling Downs: The earliest days of their occupation; social life; station seeking; the course of discovery northward and westward; and a resume of the causes which led to separation from New South Wales with portrait and facsimiles of maps, log, &c., &c. FERGUSON 15296.

Rubbing and chipping to cloth. Foxing, mostly to first and last pages. A few small tears and soils. Good Condition.

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