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VDL Company [Jorgenson, Jorgen]

History of the Origin, Rise and Progress of the Van Diemen's Land Company.

Melanie Publ. Hobart 1979 (Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions no. 2.) First published London, 1829 (Ferguson 1302). xii, 80 pp, folding 'Map of the North-West Quarter of Van Diemen's Land to accompany the Third Annual Report of the Van Diemen's Land Co. [1828]' at end. 250 numbered copies. Half maroon leather and biege cloth with glassine wrapper. Fine. ISBN ***First appeared as a serial in Andrew Bent's Colonial Advocate and Tasmanian Monthly Review and Register, from March 1828, the author being the (then) convict Jorgen Jorgenson. The tinted map does not appear in the original edition.

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