Miscellaneous Works. With memoirs of his life and writings. Composed by himself: illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield. In three volumes. Vol. iii [only]

Edward GIBBON

Verlag: Dublin: printed for P. Wogan [& others], 1796

Beschreibung

Contemporary mottled calf. Spine a little worn. On the front pastedown (under a bookseller's price "Vol III only 3/6") the pencilled ownership signature of Michael Davie (future Editor of the Melbourne Age), "Sydney, April 26 1946"; and on the half-title the earlier inscription "The Gift of Thomas Woore to Mrs Woore - May 22nd 1813". Thomas Woore, of Londonderry, married in 1798 Catherine Darcus, who gave birth on 29 January 1804 to a son, also Thomas, who first visited Sydney in 1829 and settled in New South Wales in 1839, buying a station, Pomeroy, near Goulburn; a naval hydrographer and pioneer pastoralist, Woore fils is now highly regarded for his watercolour sketches.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3M00051

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Miscellaneous Works. With memoirs of his life and writings. Composed by himself: illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield. In three volumes. Vol. iii [only]
• Verlag: Dublin: printed for P. Wogan [& others]
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1796
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good