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Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. DJ is rubbed at the edges and lightly chipped at spine ends and corners & now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details [neat stamp] to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Endpaper maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 206 pages. The story of the "shepherd boys" of 1823, Robert Rowland Leake and his brother Edward John Leake, ushers in the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the first Saxon merino to arrive in Australia. R.R. Leake became the first superintendent of the Saxon merino flock imported by the South Australia Company.

xii+212pp. 8vo Original cloth in dustwrapper, backstrip svery slightly faded. Black and white plates. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, 1973. Octavo, [xii], 206 pages plus 8 pages of plates. Cloth; top edge slightly foxed; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (lightly sunned, rubbed and marked). 'R.R. Leake became the first superintendent of the Saxon merino flock imported by the South Australian Company' (dustwrapper blurb).