Evans History and Description of the Present State of Van Diemens Land

Evans History and Description of the Present State of Van Diemens Land

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G. W. Evans History and Description of the Present State of Van Diemen's Land; Containing Hints to Emigrants, with Abstracts from the General Muster Books for the Years 1819, 1820, 1821 and Lists of the Civil Establishment

SECOND [AND BEST] EDITION, 10 + 176 pages, folding map, 8vo, original boards, rebacked, new paper spine and letter-piece, edges uncut, slight corner stain on map and title page, 1824 edition

Ferguson 940.

This edition is enlarged with new information. The copy we are offering is a variant edition. Instead of the folding view of "Hobart Town" as recorded by Ferguson, it has "A New Map of Van Diemens Land &c." size 16 X 11 ins, engraved surface 13 x 8:75 and dated 1825 as a frontispiece.