[QUEENSLAND; ABORIGINES; KELLY GANG] Les squatters et l’Australie nouvelle

Paris : Didot, [1894]. Octavo, red cloth with ornate black and gilt decoration, (rebacked, endpapers replaced), 108 pp, all edges gilt, illustrated. A very good copy. An account of contemporary life in the outback and regional centres of eastern Australia, which interweaves historical episodes into the narrative. It includes accounts of Chinese immigrants in Cooktown, Paul de Castella’s Yering Station (east of Melbourne), Belltrees Station on the Hunter River, encounters with Aboriginal culture and the story of the Kelly Gang.