Author: Batman, John.
Title: The Settlement at Port Phillip 1835 [Victoriana Collection].
Description: [Melbourne, Carlton] Queensberry Hill Press, 1983. Hardback small octavo, full brown leather cover (boards gilt stamped), spine is ribbed (gilt lettering), very good condition, brown endpapers, two tipped in sepia (brown-tinted) drawings, large foldout map at rear. In cardboard slipcase (little creased). 57 pp. John Batman (1801 - 1839) was an Australian entrepreneur who settled in Van Diemen's Land in the 1820s, and later he explored the Port Phillip Bay area on the Australian mainland with a view to establishing a new settlement there (which later became the city of Melbourne). The treaty he negotiated with local Aborigines in 1835 to acquire land was controversial, as he offered tools, blankets and food in exchange for thousands of hectares of land. This account by John Batman is reprinted from The Journal of Australasia, July and August 1856, published by George Slater in Melbourne. It is reprinted word for word without correction to grammar, punctuation, place names or titles. (One of the Victoriana Collection by Queensberry Hill Press of heritage books. Copy 145 of limited edition of 155 copies.) ISBN: 0909174377

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