Louis de Freycinet, Reflections on New South Wales 1788-1839, Hordern House 2001
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Author: Louis de Freycinet
Title: Reflections on New South Wales 1788-1839
Published: 2001
Publisher: Hordern House
Book Condition: Very Good; spine, top of front and back cover very lightly sunned, cloth boards clean, unworn and unbumped, some discolouration to text block at bottom-right edge (see photos).
Covered in protective removable plastic.
This first edition is limited to 300 copies only. Quarto, 670 pages, pale green cloth boards with dark green lettering to spine. B&W frontispiece plate, colour plates and B&W illustrations, and illustrated endpapers.
This work comprises a comprehensive reporting from Freycinet and observations of others on the first 50 years of European settlement in Australia.