Australians. A Historical Library. 10 volumes, including Index (Second Hand Book)

SECOND HAND BOOKS: 10 VOLUMES

Publisher: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, Sydney

Publication Date: 1987

1st edition

Missing 2 volumes:

`Australians: A Guide to Sources’ ed. by D.H. Borchardt; `Australians A Historical Atlas’ ed. by J.C.R. Camm & John McQuilton; A further volume (not offered here), was published in 1989

Published for the Australian Bicentennial Authority in 1988, to celebrate 200 years of European settlement in Australia. This claims to be the largest publishing venture ever undertaken in Australia, with the foremost historians and scholars in their fields being commissioned. Comprising `Australians to 1788′ edited by D.J. Mulvaney and Peter White (covers the Aboriginal population before White settlement); `Australians 1838′ ed. by A. Atkinson & M. Aveling; `Australians 1888′ ed. by Graeme Davison, J.W. McCarty, & Ailsa McLeary; `Australians 1938′ ed. by Bill Gammage & Peter Spearritt; `Australians from 1939′ ed. by Ann Curthoys, A.W. Martin & Tom Rowse; `Australians, Events & Places’ ed. by Graeme Alpin, S.G. Foster & Michael McKernan; `Australians: Historical Statistics’ ed. by Wray Vamplew; `Australians: A Historical Dictionary’ ed. by Graeme Alpin, S.G. Foster & Michael McKernan; `Australians the Guide and Index’ and `Australians 1988′ edited by Kim Anderson.

In 12 volumes, totalling over 5,000 pages, profusely illustrated in colour and black & white (many full or double page, some folding), numerous text maps, tables & diagrams, patterned endpapers, endnotes, indices; demy 4to; qr. light brown art. leather, spines lettered in black, cream papered boards, each volume featuring a different coloured pictorial onlay at centre of upper board

$260.00

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