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WENTWORTH, William Charles.
Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, and its dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land, with a particular enumeration of the advantages which these colonies offer for emigration...
Doubleday Sydney 1978 Facsimile reprint, first published 1819 (Ferguson 771). xii, 466pp - with 5ppnew Foreword by W.C. Wentworth (the great-grandson). Faux leather, gilt tiles on spine and upper board, with dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned). Very good. ISBN ***The first book written to encourage emigration to the Australian colonies, and the first published work by an Australian-born author.
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