Mortimer, mrs. F.L. - Far off, or, Asia and Australia (1852)

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Mortimer, mrs. F.L. - Far off, or, Asia and Australia

Described : with anecdotes and illustrations

London,T. Hatchard, 1852, second thousand

In original gilt decorated green cloth
Small octavo
XVI, 404, 12 Pages

GOOD
Pictures are often flawed by a little stamp (see scans)

Frontispiece, folding map and numerous vignettes

Rare First edition, First issue of a work that was one of the most popular goldfields era accounts of Australia:

If you were in Sydney, you would hardly think you were in a savage island; for you would see no savages in the streets. What is become of those who once lived in these parts?
They are all dead or gone to other parts of the island. The last black near Sydney used to talk off the old times, and say, When I was a black pick-a-ninny, plenty of black fellow then. Only one left now,
Mitter.

Mortimers work went through many reprints and new editions, but the first edition is very scarce.
Lee Mortimer (1802 to 1878) was known for her works such as, The Peep of Day, or, A Series of the Earliest Religious Instruction the Infant Mind is Capable of Receiving

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