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Author: Munday, Godfrey Charles
Title: Our Antipodes: or Residence and Rambles in the Australsian Colonies with a Glimpse of the Gold Fields
Place Published: London
Publisher:Richard Bentley
Date Published: 1852
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3 volumes. xii, [17]-410; 405; 431, [1] pp. With 15 tinted lithographic full-page plates. (8vo) 22x14 cm (9x5") original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt design and spines. First Edition.



A notable work of Australian travel literature and one of the fist eye-witness accounts of the gold fields. Mundy's very early account of the gold discovery and of a trip to Ophir in July 1851 concludes the third volume. In addition, three of his fine lithographs show scenes at the diggings drawn within two months of the first rush making this one of the earliest artistic records of the gold fields. Abbey 563; Bagnall 3671; Ferguson 12957

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Fair amount of wear and soiling to bindings, rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, some splitting to cloth at spines, 2 volumes leaning; rear hinges cracked on vols. 2 and 3, others starting, loose gathering in vol.2, toning and light scattered foxing affecting plates; good.
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