A Flower Hunter in Queensland and New Zealand
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1898. 1st Australian ed., pp.xvi, 272, b&w fronts and b&w plates including plate showing 'Corroboree' (page 44), repair to double-page colour chromolithograph plate, prev. owners inscriptions to title-page, foxing and tanning to earlier and latter pages, remains to early tape to eps, scattered light foxing, bookseller's ticket (N.H. Seward, Melbourne) to front paste-down. Publisher's original gilt-decorated cloth boards, cnrs bumped. Good condition
Rare Australian edition published in Sydney same year as the London edition. Marian 'Ellis' Rowan is best known for her Australian wild flower paintings. Item #99529
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