Colonization of South Australia. (Presentation copy)

/ By R. Torrens, Esq., F.R.S., Chairman of the Colonisation Commission for South Australia. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836. Second edition. Octavo (210 x 130 mm), contemporary full calf, boards ruled in gilt (new front joint and inner hinge), spine in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting title-pieces lettered in gilt (new head and tail caps); front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Charles R. J. Glover; presentation copy inscribed on the title ‘G. W. Brande Esqr. with the author’s comps.’; frontispiece folding map Part of Southern Australia from the 132 to 141 degree of East Longitude, with an inset map of Australia, both with hand-coloured outlines; pp. xvi, 303, [blank], xcvii (Appendix, which is significantly expanded from the 1835 first edition); some light foxing to the map and preliminaries, otherwise contents clean and crisp, a very good copy of the second edition, inscribed by Torrens.

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