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(AUSTRALIA - POLITICAL SCIENCE) Sir Henry Parkes
Fifty Years in the Making of Australian History. (First Edition - Two Volumes)London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. First Edition. Two octavo volumes, Portrait frontispiece + folding plate, xi, [1], 355, [24, adverts.] + portrait frontispiece, ix, [1], 444 pages. Publisher’s original cloth with gilt lettering. Short tear to crown of first volume; bindings of both volumes slightly rubbed and slightly soiled; two corner tips rubbed open, insignificant and scattered light foxing. Clean endpapers, unbroken hinges, no prior ownership markings whatsoever.
Sir Henry Parkes (1815-1896) Australian statesman and close friend to the poet, Alfred Tennyson. Parkes was a strong proponent of Australian federation and democracy. He has been called “[T]he largest figure of nineteenth-century Australian politics”. [ODNB] A very good set and difficult to obtain in presentable condition, and/or without having been de-accessioned from an institution or library.
Ferguson 13815.
$100
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