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A RESIDENCE IN TASMANIA:
by STONEY, Capt. H. Butler; WALKER, P. Benson (ed.):
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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About This Item
Hobart, Tasmania: Melanie Publications., 1982. Facsimile edition, limited to 250 copies - this copy one of 25 copies in full golden kangaroo hide by Peter Marsh, Dove Bindery, Melbourne. Presentation copy, inscribed as such in blue ink on the limitation page and further inscribed by the editor P. Benson Walker on the front endpaper: "To Dot - / with my best wishes / P. Benson Walker / 21 July '83". Octavo. The boards ruled in gilt with embossed map of Tasmania to the upper board; the spine with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Marbled endpapers by Douglas Cockerell and Son, Cambridge. The text, printed on high-quality laid paper, comprising a full facsimile of the illustrated London edition of 1856, including the original 8 tinted plates, map and in-text wood-engraved illustrations. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a very minor scuff to one of the spine bands. The contents with the odd minor mark to the edges of the textblock and a tiny nick to the margin of one of the front endpapers are otherwise clean and crisp throughout. A scarce limitation of this nicely produced facsimile of Stoney's account of Tasmania in the mid nineteenth century, handsomely bound by Peter Marsh's Dove Bindery. First published in Hobart in 1854, without illustrations, the present facsimile reproduces the illustrated London edition, first published by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1856.
[Tasmania Facsimile Editions No. 6]
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- Bookseller
- Sky Duthie Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1093
- Title
- A RESIDENCE IN TASMANIA:
- Author
- STONEY, Capt. H. Butler; WALKER, P. Benson (ed.):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hobart, Tasmania: Melanie Publications.
- Date Published
- 1982
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Natural History|History & Military|Travel & Exploration|Signed Books|Bindings
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Following a period in academia focusing on the history of ideas and after several years working for a prominent rare bookseller, the business was established in 2022 by Dr Sky Duthie.
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- Gilt
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