History and Description of the Present State of Van Diemen's Land; Containing Important Hints to Emigrants, With Abstracts from the General Muster Books for the Years 1819, 1820, 1821, and Lists of the Civil Establishment. ... 2nd Edition.

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London: Printed for John Souter, 1824. Roy. 8vo. Orig. stained plain paper boards with the now illegible printed paper titling-label to spine. (viii, 2, 174pp.). With folding engr. view of Hobart-Town with identification of the principal buildings. Uncut. F. 940. Slight foxing, but a good tight unsophisticated copy. Rare. NOTE: Surveyor George Evans (1780-1852) was the first European to cross the Great Dividing Range in 1813.