The Genesis of Queensland

Henry Stuart Russell

Toowoomba

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Vintage Books

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1989

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Facsimile Edition.

24cm x 16cm. [ii], 633, [3], pages, 4 folding plates, maps. Quarter bonded leather, cloth, metal corners.

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. First published in 1888 this is a limited facsimile edition, of which this copy is numbered out of series.

Very minor mark to top edge. Near Fine Condition.