Australia, Its History and Present Condition: Containing an Account both of the Bush and of the Colonies, with Their Respective Inhabitants.
Rev. W. Pridden. Published by James Burns, London 1843. 363pp.+12p. ads. Also folding map frontispiece (no cartographer or publisher), and 9 small engraved vignette chapter headings.
Fourteen chapters encompassing the 'bush', geography, history, inhabitants, ‘natives' and fauna (in typically Anglocentric manner….'Disgusting food of the Natives'), Convicts, Van Diemen's Land etc.
Original blue cloth covered boards are bumped and very worn. Losses to the spine ends and a tear midway. Internal front hinge cracked, with evidence of inscriptions to the pastedown. Contents very mildly foxed and toned. Binding holding. (17x12cm)

Estimate $120-200