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Editore: Hardpress Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1314129082ISBN 13: 9781314129083
Da: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Da: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condizione: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1968 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 154 Language: English Pages: 154.
Editore: Hardpress Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1314129082ISBN 13: 9781314129083
Da: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Regno Unito
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Editore: Hardpress Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1314129082ISBN 13: 9781314129083
Da: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Regno Unito
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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Editore: London: Richard Bentley, 1862., 1862
Da: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
GILES, Ernest (1835-1897) - JESSOP, William Rowlestone Henry (died 1862). Flindersland and Sturtland; or, the Inside and Outside of Australia. London: Richard Bentley, 1862. 2 volumes. 8vo., (8 x 4 7/8 inches). Half-titles. Original purple cloth, each front cover decorated with a fine and large gilt stamp of a Quokka, by Edmonds & Remnants, with their ticket on the rear paste-down of the first volume (spine a little dulled, corners bumped). Provenance: with the 19th-century library label of J. Pythian on the front free endpaper of each volume; with the small ink library stamp of Hugh Selbourne, his sale, Bonhams, 8th March 2016, lot 261 First edition and a bright and attractive copy, principally because "In the twenty-fourth chapter of the second volume Jessop records in interesting and accurate detail an early expedition of one Ernest Giles whom the author met at Wilpena where Giles had stopped on his homeward trip from the north. This expedition, in the company of a Mr Mole, was from Adelaide to the northward in search of new pastoral land. It does not appear to be elsewhere recorded." (Wantrup). Although Giles made no major discoveries, "he is among the more interesting Australian explorers by virtue of his journals which, although overwritten, display a fine descriptive ability and constitute a record of inner experience as well as outward observation." (Louis Green, 'Giles, Ernest (1835 1897)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University). Jessop's style may also be described as 'overwritten'."I have a mortal hatred of any old place being called new. I do not like to see a greybearded old fellow using hair-dye; hence I have a great objection to these islands being christened New. It is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warrant, at least a very slender one, of antiquity, and is rather repugnant to science. Consequently, I hold the Dutch in abhorrence for having nicknamed the principal part of Australasia, the largest of all islands, New Holland. A noble comparison, forsooth! a brave christening this! A land, as dry as a bone, sandy, stony, burning hot; a wilderness, an earthly furnace; cloudless, windless, fruitless. This, according to the wise men of Dutchland, bears a strong resemblance to their own muddy, marshy, flat, damp, squashy, slushy Holland! What perversity of bodily sense could have operated in them to make so huge a blunder? They are ever slow-goes, they are more than a century behind other people, obstinate, strange, and covetous; without natural attachment for their country, which they once thought of quitting; with an inordinate hankering for what does not belong to them. Could they have been so foolish, coidd they have been so vain-glorious, so mighty fine, so perking, so blind to their own littleness, so contemptuous of others' greatness, as to suppose, to take for granted, that calling this country New Holland would make it theirs? Had they no knowledge of other people? Did they not feel that they were living of sufferance, and not of their own vigour? They should have been more respectful; a little modesty would have become them; it would have saved them from being treated with indifference" (page 20). Ferguson, 10940; Wantrup, pp. 265-7.