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Sidney’s Australian hand-book.

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Sidney’s Australian hand-book.: How to settle and succeed in Australia: comprising every information for intending emigrants. By a bushman. Fifth thousand.

by [SIDNEY, John and Samuel]

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Small 8vo, pp. 123, [1], [8, advertisements]; slightly browned, advertisements loose; very good in later snakeskin binding, gilt-lettered spine label, with original green printed wrappers bound in.

A handsome copy of the 'fifth thousand' of this very successful handbook for prospective emigrants to Australia, published only six weeks after the first issue. The handbook was the work of the brothers John (b. 1821) and Samuel Sidney (1813-1883), the former having settled in New South Wales around 1838. 'It was an immediate popular success, seven 1000-copy editions being sold in five months. Of particular interest ... is the anti-Wakefieldian espousal of the general values of squatters, who were called "the heart's blood of Australia"' (ADB).

The first part ('How to emigrate') includes chapters on the necessity for emigration, a description of Australia and the Bush, on wives and children, on the choice of colonies, on cattle, horses and sheep, on Bush roads, and on necessary provisions. Part II ('How to colonize') includes discussion of the 'cardinal errors of Wakefield system', 'the share of the working man in emigration', and 'selfish monopolies and idle schemes'. The advertisements at the end include medicines and clothing.

Ferguson 4891. This issue not on Library Hub; no copies in the US on OCLC.

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Bookseller
Bernard Quaritch Ltd GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
G537
Title
Sidney’s Australian hand-book.
Author
[SIDNEY, John and Samuel]
Book Condition
Used
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Publisher
Pelham Richardson
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1848
Weight
0.00 lbs

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