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Zustand: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. pp.xvi+272. 18.5cm. Index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Decorated boards. Light wear to the jacket. A good clean copy Wheelwright, hunter, naturalist and writer, migrated to Australia in 1852. Unsuccessful at the Diggings he made a living in the bush . . Facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1861. [384g].…

Barre, 1973. 102 pp. Ills. Stiff softcover.

2nd edition. 8vo. viii + 407pp. 6 colour plates. Small library inkstamp to title page ans small bookplate to front pastedown. Pages browned. One plate slightly frayed to fore-edge. Hinges detached with several pages being unprofessionally restubbed. Frayed and worn original red cloth with gilt device to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Lower joint split with tear extending across spine. With all faults. With the signature of Ann Savours Shirley. US$73.…

first edition).Duodecimo,272 pp.Publisher's blindstamped blue cloth, a very good copy. The first edition was issued without plates, the second edition has sixteen uncoloured plates. The first edition does not have plates, they appeared with the second edition. Horace William Wheelwright (1815-1865) was a qualified attorney who migrated from England to Australia in 1852. He came in search of gold, was unsuccessful, and decided to put his love of field sports into practice by becoming a professional shooter of game. He supplied the Melbourne market with duck, quail, pigeon and kangaroo before leaving for Europe in 1859. An account of his Scandavian experiences was published posthumously in 1866. He died in 1865 from injuries sustained from a fall in a London street. His account is one of the most informative and readable narratives of early bush life in the colony. …

first edition).Octavo,272 pp.Publisher's mauve cloth, Lengthy insciption "H. W. Wheelright to his old friend Caspar Lexow", then presented through other hands and ulitmately to Dr R. Soderberg. The first edition does not have plates, they appeared with the second edition. Horace William Wheelwright (1815-1865), writing under the nom de plume "An Old Bushman", was a qualified attorney who migrated from England to Australia in 1852. He came in search of gold, was unsuccessful, and decided to put his love of field sports into practice by becoming a professional shooter of game. He supplied the Melbourne market with duck, quail, pigeon and kangaroo before leaving for Europe in 1859. An account of his Scandinavian experiences was published posthumously in 1866. He died in 1865 from injuries sustained from a fall in a London street. His account is one of the most informative and readable narratives of early bush life in the colony. Horace William Wheelwright (1815-1865), writing under the nom de plume "An Old Bushman", was a qualified attorney who migrated from England to Australia in 1852. He came in search of gold, was unsuccessful, and decided to put his love of field sports into practice by becoming a professional shooter of game. He supplied the Melbourne market with duck, quail, pigeon and kangaroo before leaving for Europe in 1859. An account of his Scandinavian experiences was published posthumously in 1866. He died in 1865 from injuries sustained from a fall in a London street. His account is one of the most informative and readable narratives of early bush life in the colony.…

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1865. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth. Spine and frontcover gilt. Professionally rebacked preserving orig. spine. Light edgewear. Small stamps on verso of title-page and on foot of last leaf. XVI,592 pp. + Publisher's catatalogue. Internally fine and clean. First edition.