Australia The First Hundred Years: Being A Facsimile Of Volumes I & Ii Of The Picturesque Atlas Of Australasia 1888
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Step back into the colonial world of the nineteenth century with this remarkable facsimile of The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, originally published in 1888 — one of the most ambitious publishing endeavours ever undertaken on Australian soil. Edited by the Hon. Andrew Garran, M.A., LL.D., M.L.C., this sweeping visual and historical record chronicles the landscapes, cities, townships, and peoples of Australia and the broader Australasian region during its first century of European settlement, brought to vivid life through seven hundred engravings on steel and wood. The work stands as an irreplaceable primary document of Australian cultural and social history, capturing a nascent nation on the cusp of federation with extraordinary pictorial detail and editorial authority. Garran's editorial vision presents a continent in transformation — its harbours teeming with tall ships, its streets alive with colonial industry — offering modern readers an unmediated window into a world that has long since vanished. For historians, collectors, and lovers of Australiana alike, this facsimile edition poses one irresistible question: how much of that vanished world shaped the Australia we know today?
Author: Andrew Garran
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Step back into the colonial world of the nineteenth century with this remarkable facsimile of The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, originally published in 1888 — one of the most ambitious publishing endeavours ever undertaken on Australian soil. Edited by the Hon. Andrew Garran, M.A., LL.D., M.L.C., this sweeping visual and historical record chronicles the landscapes, cities, townships, and peoples of Australia and the broader Australasian region during its first century of European settlement, brought to vivid life through seven hundred engravings on steel and wood. The work stands as an irreplaceable primary document of Australian cultural and social history, capturing a nascent nation on the cusp of federation with extraordinary pictorial detail and editorial authority. Garran's editorial vision presents a continent in transformation — its harbours teeming with tall ships, its streets alive with colonial industry — offering modern readers an unmediated window into a world that has long since vanished. For historians, collectors, and lovers of Australiana alike, this facsimile edition poses one irresistible question: how much of that vanished world shaped the Australia we know today?