Convicts and the Colonies, First Edition (21 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A clean unmarked copy.

400pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. A very good copy. First MUP edition.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4 Pages. e.t.c. small tear to right side not affecting text. Original pamphlet, first Edition, act of Parliament, disbound with usual glue and stitching residue from nonce volume of that year.

1st. Ed. 8vo. xvi + 270pp. B/w ills. Original boards with d/w, slight shelf wear. Edited by W Hugh Oldham with commentary by Dan Byrnes. ISBN 0 908120 77 X US$12.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. GEORGII IV. REGIS. CAP. XLVII. 4pp. vgc. Extracted from the annual book of Acts. UK Post and packing will be loess than quoted by abe at £3.95.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "Shaw discusses the changing British views on punishment, the attempts made by administrators in Australia to meet these views and the reasons for their final failure; but, in addition to considering British policy, he is concerned with the convicts as colonists. .Whether or not the system was a success depends on what one's criterion for success should be." --- Shaw: Professor of History, Monash University, Victoria, formerly Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sydney. --- Original black cloth boards, lettered gilt on spine (22.2 cm height). Previous owner inscription front free endpaper. Printed dustwrapper, price-clipped, some rubbing and fraying to ends and corners. Now protected. Pp. 399 including List of Tables (9), Preface, References and Abbreviations, Introduction, Appendix: The Numbers Transported, Select Bibliography, Index.

400pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket has light general wear and no tears. Internally clean. Binding tight. 183pp Size: 220mm x 300mm. Book.

First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 400p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Penal colonies -- Great Britain. Exiles -- Australia. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 399pp, index, bibliography, appendix. Or black cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped with some minor foxing. Prev owner name on front free endpaper, endpapers and page edges with minor foxing. Size: 8vo.

First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 400p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Penal colonies -- Great Britain. Exiles -- Australia. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1990. Octavo, xvi, 270 pages with a map and 5 plates (plus the dustwrapper illustration). Synthetic cloth; a fine copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. xvi 277p hardback, black illustrated dustjacket, a fresh and clean copy without name or stamps, no traces of use, very good indeed Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Used.Hardcover in unclipped dust-jacket.1st impression.Some very mild spotting to top page edges.No inscriptions.Jacket rubbed and worn to spine-ends with two closed tears to head of spine.Generally good to very good.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 399pp., appendix, tables, bibliog,., index, Tiny ownership signature o/w nice copy.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xiii + 270pp., b/w pls., text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index,

HARDCOVER. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 8vo in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 277pp, bibliography, index CONDITION: An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy (merest hint of tanning to leaves) in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy ] ._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1823 An Act for Authorizing the Employment as Labour in the Colonies of Male Convicts under Sentence of Transportation Four pages cpmplete. Taken from a bound up book that would have held the acts of parliament for that period. This was quite common to bind up the acts to keep them together probably for public or business use. Pages are in good condition. A little light marking and edge separation where it was taken from the book. More images can be taken upon request. Ref13929.

Disbound. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Complete, original newspaper in near fine condition. Essay on the history of the colonization of Australia by the convicts of the British Empire.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 399 pages recent full leather binding with five raised bands gilt lettered title on spine, gilt decorated spine, gilt ruled edges on covers. Notation on fly leaf and previous owner's details at back of title page.