I have here for sale a book entitled AUSTRALIA THE COUNTRY AND ITS INHABITANTS Abridged from the larger work of DR K E JUNG With Sixteen Full-Page Illustrations and an Index published by W Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London, in 1884.  This book describes Australia in the 1880s and includes chapters on the physical geography of Australia, its fauna and flora, the Aborigines, colonists, Chinamen and Polynesians, farmers, squatters and bushmen, diggers and miners, and the commercial importance of Australia.  There are 12 full-page b/w illustrations.

Red pictorial cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front board and spine.  Minor marks on the boards and bumping to the top and bottom of the spine.  Decorated endpapers and gilt page edges.  Browning to rear endpaper with minor marks and light foxing to some pages.  Title-page, Preface, Contents and Index pages detached, but all others are firm and the book is in very good overall condition.  xiv, 250 pages.  19 x 13.5 cm.

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