Irwin captain frederick chidley (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1835. Octavo, [viii], 144 pages plus an erratum slip. Original cloth, rebacked retaining most of the backstrip, with a new paper title-label to the spine; covers bumped, worn and sunned; new endpapers (splitting at the front hinge); edges uncut; outer leaves a little foxed and marked; a handful of leaves with tiny nicks at the edges; small pencil mark at the foot of each page; overall, a very good copy. One of the earliest accounts of the European settlement of Western Australia. Irwin was twice acting head of government of the Swan River Colony, and during the first occasion was involved in controversial execution of Noongar leaders Midgeroo and Yagan. Irwin refers to this incident in his ten-page chapter on the local Aboriginal people: 'These acts of justice so completely succeeded in their object of intimidating the natives on the Swan and Canning rivers, that recent accounts from the colony represent the shepherds and others in the habit of going about the country, as having for a considerable time laid aside their usual precaution of carrying fire-arms; so peaceable had the conduct of these tribes become' (page 25). Two of the ten appendices have good Indigenous Australian content: 'Native Institution' (pages 134-136) and 'Extraordinary Recovery of a Child by two Swan-river Natives' (pages 136-139). Ferguson 1973, noting also a later issue with two advertisements (not present here).…

Boards. 1st edition. 1st ed., octavo, pp vii, 143, i. Original cloth boards, spine rebacked with new paper spine label, corners bumped, markings to boards, small fishing holes to upper corners earlier pages, foxing and light staining to endpapers. Stamp of Henry Prinsep ("H.P.") to front and rear paste-downs with offsetting from stamp to end-papers. Contents generally clean. Very good condition. Irwin arrived in the Swan River Settlement in June 1829, as commandant of the military forces. His book was the first published account of the Colony and remained a valuable source. It includes a chapter on Aborigines. This book from the library of Henry Prinsep with his stamp (H.P.) to both boards. Prinsep was an early settler in Western Australia and had an interest in art and literature. Prinsep's 1875 and 1876 drawings of incidents in the explorations of Sir John Forrest and Ernest Giles were included in the published accounts of their expeditions.…

Boards. 1st edition. 1st ed., octavo, pp vii, 143, i. Bound in with one page of publisher's advertisement for the book and including Erratum slip. Original cloth boards with rubbed remains of original paper title label to spine, faded, fragile and starting to fray, top edge faded, corners bumped. Previous owner's signature front free endpaper, "E.J. Parkinson (?), Dublin 1835", some foxing endpapers (including 'Advertisement' page), otherwise contents clean. Very good condition. Irwin arrived in the Swan River Settlement in June 1829, as commandant of the military forces. His book was the first published account of the Colony and remained a valuable source. It includes a chapter on Aborigines. The book is inscribed by previous owner from Dublin (E.J. Parkinson ?) and dated 1835, most likely by member of the "Swan River Mission" which was initially formed in 1834 (in Dublin) with the purpose of sending out Missionaries to the colonists and Aborigines of Western Australia. …