The Newcastle Packets and the Hunter Valley
Currawong Publishing Company Co
, Sydney, Australia
Put simply, Mr. Abbott is a great writer, always involving an excellent background of facts. So this book about the early days of navigation on the New South Wales Coast will always be of great interest to both ship-loving people and East Coast historians, focusing of course as the title suggests, on the Hunter Valley and Newcastle regions.
$75.00
Specifications
| Author | Abbott, J. H.M |
| Publisher | Currawong Publishing Company Co |
| Place Published | Sydney, Australia |
| Size | 8vo - Octavo, 152mm x 229mm |
| Chapters | XXVI |
| Pages | 242pp |
Condition Report
| Cover | Hardcover in patterned pale blue textured cloth boards with dark green titling original a firm spine and front board in very good condition with slightly bruised top and bottom of spine in a pictorial dust wrapper with scuffed edges and chipped spine edges in otherwise excellent condition now protected by clear archival covering. |
| Overall | Text is in an excellent condition other than the front endpaper being neatly removed as are the many black and white photographic plates throughout with a coloured frontis, elevating the book overall to very-good' status, despite its age and fep absence as mentioned. |
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