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The discovery, survey & settlement of Port Phillip / by G.W. Rusden
Bib ID 3774690
Format BookBook
Author
Rusden, George William, 1819-1903
 
Printer (Melbourne : Printed by Walker, May and Co.)
Description Melbourne : George Robertson, 1871 
[viii], 56, [4] p., 1 folded leaf of plates : 1 facsim., 1 map ; 22 cm. 
Summary

An unrecorded variant and superior issue of Ferguson 15214, with the map and letter.

Notes

Includes a folded facsim. letter by Matthew Flinders, 24 Sept. 1803 written on board the Cumberland to Governor King giving details of his voyage. Lithographed by H.G. DeGruchy, Melbourne, 1870.

Includes a folded handcoloured map lithographed by De Gruchy and Leigh in Melbourne and dated 1870. This map shows the earliest disposal of Crown Lands in the Port Phillip District of New south Wales in 1836 and is a Melbourne printing of the 1836 London printed map that would be included in the 1872 edition.

Related Material Letter, 1803 Sept. 24 [by Matthew Flinders] at MS 2312 available through the Manuscript Reading Room. 
Subjects Port Phillip Bay Region (Vic.) - Discovery and exploration.  |  Victoria - Discovery and exploration.  |  Victoria - History - 1834-1900.  |  Victoria - History - To 1834.
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