Australian Antiques: First Fleet to Federation

DE Caroline Simpson, Kevin Fahy and others. John Delacour (Photographs). The Golden Press in Association with The National Trust of Australia (NSW) Women's Committee, Sydney, 1978. Texto en inglés. Photographs by John Delacour Ilustrador. 144 pp, 29 x 22. illustrated throughout in full colour, bibliography, index, illustrated end-papers. Cloth boards in protected dust-jacket. This volume is the first comprehensive picture of Australian antiques to be published and includes objects of the useful and decorative arts made in this country from the time of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788 and the beginnings of European settlement until the federation of the Australian colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Hardcover. Good condition. ISBN: 0855586230