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Prospectus and Specimen Pages of
Fix this textA Bibliography of Australasia
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Fix this textCompiler of “ The York Gate Catalogue : an Index to the Literature of Geography , Maritime and
Fix this textInland Discovery, Commerce and Colonization Member of the Library Association of the
Fix this textUnited Kingdom, F.R.G.S., F.L.S., &=c., &>c.
Fix this textBy EDWARD AUGUSTUS PETHERICK
Fix this textIn One Volume, Imperial Octavo, 900 or icoo pages.
Fix this textPrice, about £3 10s.
Fix this textlong-promised Contribution to NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY is
Fix this textS founded upon an extensive private library of several thousand volumes,
Fix this textpamphlets, newspapers, &c., collected by the Compiler during a period of
Fix this textmore than thirty years, and upon original researches made in the
Fix this textAustralian Colonies, as well as in British and Continental libraries.
Fix this textThe Work will contain titles and references to all known publications, articles in
Fix this textperiodicals, and papers in transactions —in any language—relating to Australia,
Fix this textTasmania, New Zealand, and other Island Groups of the Pacific Ocean, since the
Fix this textbeginning of the 16th Century, including publications issued in the Southern Colonies
Fix this textAn examination of early and later files of Australasian newspapers and other periodical
Fix this textpublications, has resulted in the discovery of the names of many writers who have long
Fix this textbeen forgotten, and of a mass of Colonial literature —political, religious, poetical,
Fix this textscientific, biographic, and critical —literature which, if not recorded and indexed, and
Fix this textthus, in a manner, made accessible, might soon have been lost beyond recovery.
Fix this textThe Titles —over thirty thousand —are fully given (with place of publication, date,
Fix this textpagination, illustrations, maps, and translations), arranged in chronological order and
Fix this textgrouped under the subjects, colonies, islands, dialects, &c., to which they refer —
Fix this textcross references being made to voyages and explorations and other comprehensive
Fix this texttreatises catalogued in general sections. The work is thus adapted and rendered
Fix this textuseful for literary and historical purposes —to the journalist, the statesman, the
Fix this textstatistician, the man of science, the scholar and the student, as well as to the librarian,
Fix this textthe bibliographer, and the bookseller.
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