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Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1973. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ is price-clipped and now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Previous owner's blindstamp to title page. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 132 pages. Sir Edmund DuCane has a place in the history of both Australia and England. As a young lieutenant in the Royal Engineers he volunteered in 1851 to go to Western Australia to superintend works for the convict establishment there. On returning to England much later he became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Convict Prisons. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1973.. First Edition; 8vo; pp. x, 132; colour portrait frontispiece, 14 colour and numerous b/w sketches by Sir Edmund DuCane, 9 portrait photographs, bibliography, references; chipped dustjacket with closed tear at front, a very good copy. A Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers; in 1852 he came to the Swan River Colony as Super Intendant of works for the convict establishment; he recorded many people and scenes in the colony, in watercolours and sketches, (reproduced here); he married Georgiana Molloys' daughter, Mary Dorothea.

Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1973.. 8vo; pp. x, 132; colour portrait frontispiece, 14 colour and numerous b/w sketches by Sir Edmund DuCane, 9 portrait photographs, bibliography, references; dustjacket, a fine copy. A Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers; in 1852 he came to the Swan River Colony as Superintendant of works for the convict establishment; he recorded many people and scenes in the colony, in watercolours and sketches, (reproduced here); he married Georgiana Molloys' daughter, Mary Dorothea.

Sydney, Angus and Robertson 1973.. 132pp. Large 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A few spots on edges, otherwise a very good copy.. With colour frontis. and b/w illustrations.

Sydney; Angus and Robertson; 1973. hardcover in very good condition, dustwrapper a little worn on edges, dustcover protected by clear plastic sleeve. 132 pages, colour and b/w illusts

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1973 Royal Engineer. A Life of Sir Edmund DuCane. A clean and tightly bound book. Dust jacket spine faded.

Angus & Robertson,Sydney, 1973. 8vo.pp.x + 132. profusely illustrated. Very Good in originalleather binding in slip case.