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Wallace, Robert
The Rural Economy and Agriculture of Australia and New Zealand
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London;
Date of Publication: 1891
Stock Code: 4127
Large octavo. xvi, 541 pp, [1], [2] advertisements. Photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue guard plus 89 full page plates and 24 illustrations in text. 8 fold-out maps in colour. Book Condition: Very Good. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt vignette to upper board; black endpapers. Cover cloth a little rubbed to edges and bumped to upper corners but clean and bright. A handsome example of the agricultural classic; subject matter covers crops, Merino sheep and other breeds, cattle and the meat trade, and pests such as rabbits. £80.00