{"product_id":"2026200013536-secondhand-a-geographical-dictionary-or-gazetteer-of-the-australian-colonies-1848","title":"A Geographical Dictionary Or Gazetteer Of The Australian Colonies 1848","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First Facsimile Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Slight tear to edge of DJ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1848 and now preserved in this facsimile edition, A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies stands as one of the most indispensable primary sources for understanding the geography, settlements, and administrative landscape of colonial Australia at the height of the pre-Gold Rush era. William Henry Wells systematically catalogues the towns, rivers, mountains, pastoral runs, and districts of the Australian colonies, presenting a meticulous record of a young nation still being mapped, named, and contested by European settlers — all while the continent's vast interior remained largely unknown to the colonial gaze.\n\nThis landmark reference work offers historians, genealogists, and geography enthusiasts an unparalleled window into mid-nineteenth-century Australia, capturing the nomenclature and territorial organisation of a rapidly transforming society on the edge of the world. Wells writes with the precision of a surveyor and the ambition of a chronicler, documenting place names and descriptions that in many cases have since vanished from the modern map. The facsimile edition ensures that this rare and fragile document remains accessible to scholars and collectors alike — a faithful reproduction of a text that continues to raise questions about who named the land, and what was lost in the naming.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203339362523,"sku":"2026200013536-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/eac8497d-f2f4-44d5-a856-85b3284a0ec4.png?v=1788147865","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013536-secondhand-a-geographical-dictionary-or-gazetteer-of-the-australian-colonies-1848","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}