Minimal, if any, discernible shelf wear to the dustjackets from storage, the interior is tight and spotlessly clean with 258,  274  and 382 pages respectively.  Each volume signed by the author. A set of three titles as an Anniversary History to Celebrate Victoria’s 150 Years.   A 3 volume official anniversary history to commemorate 150 years of European settlement in Victoria all heavily illustrated.

In original green buckram leatherette HARDcover bindings, with publisher's glossy pictorial dustcover. *There is a further associated clear plastic cover which has 'Victoria 150, an anniversary history' with blue writing on  front panel.

Physical Description

Volume I Arriving has xiv, 258 pages with endpaper maps, 6 colour illustrations, numerous b/w. illustrations, maps, tables, notes on sources, an Index.

Vol. II Settling   has xiv, 274 pages, endpaper maps, 8 colour illustrations, numerous b/w. illustrations, maps, table, notes on sources, iand an Index;

Vol. III Making Their Marks has. xiv, 382 pages; illustrated endpapers, 7 colour illustrations, numerous b/w. illustrations, maps, some colour, chronology, and an Index.

ALL have their dustjackets which are NOT price-clipped and are protected; a fine set.

SYNOPSIS

Arriving : - by Richard Broome.  Focussing on migration. Over the last 150 years more than 2 million people have immigrated permanently to Victoria where they populated and changed the land and were affected by it. Tells the story of the newcomers, explains why and how they came and what became of them ....  
In this book the author deals with the migration of people to Victoria, from the aboriginals through to the more than 2 million migrants who had made Victoria their permanent home

Settling ~ by Tony Dingle

A new interpretation of Victoria's past. Familiar episodes are presented in a new light and matters not discussed in other general histories are here given prominence. Looking at how the land has been used and changed, first by hunters and gatherers and more recently by pastoralists, miners, farmers, manufacturers and city dwellers as they earned their living and created homes for themselves.

Making Their Mark  by Susan Priestly

This book gives an account of the changing look of Victoria expressly over last 150 years, although the impact made by the aborigines' lifestyle before contact with Europeans is also briefly covered. In a lively and readable style the author traces the historical scene in which Melbourne, its suburbs, country towns, roads, railways, reservoirs, farms, holiday places and other elements in the Victorian landscape have evolved.