Description
8vo, XIII, 200pp. Hardcover in chocolate brown with silver titles on front cover and spine with only minor shelf wear and edge scuffing thus being in very good shape with an illustrated d/w also in very good condition now protected by clear archival covering, text is in pristine condition with beautiful map illustrated endpapers and neatly pen-signed by author on the title page. A compact book in near fine or better condition that is an absorbing biography of an ‘amost-successful government official and his immediate family based on British and New South Wales records. “Samuel Bates was not a high-achiever, his tumultuous life moved from one crisis to another, often financial ones, but without him, New South Wales in the early 19th century would have been the poorer”.