STORY OF THE DANDENONGS 1838-1958 Tapa dura - 1982

Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1982. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. foreword by R.G. Casey, acknowledgements, list of illustrations, notes to chapters, three appendices and index of names. Illustrated endpapers, both different, front endpaper : -- showing pastoral runs -- 1864, rear endpaper: -- showing State forests. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece showing timber splitters in the forest near Sherbrooke 1894. The text is illustrated with 52 pages of black and white plates. Green coloured boards with gilt illustration of Fern Tree Gully Shire 1889 emblem. Gilt titles to the backstrip, within a black insert. Illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound) with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. An almost an essential item in any local historian's library. The history of the Dandenong ranges between the years in 1838 to 1958. Minor rubbing of the book corners and softening of the back strip edges. Hint of sunning to the top book… Leer más