A RARE BOUND GROUP OF NEWSLETTERS FROM THE 19TH CENTURY AUST...

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A RARE BOUND GROUP OF NEWSLETTERS FROM THE 19TH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN WOOL SHIP PARRAMATTA

The Parramatta Echo being a series of papers established on the homeward voyage of the S. Parramatta, comprising 35 leaves of ‘Weekly Expense and Remains of Provisions on board the Parramatta', 9 lithographed plates and portraits, errata slip, frontispiece portrait and title-page laid down, a little foxing, later polished calf, title in gilt on spine and front cover -- 8½ x 5½in. (21.5 x 14cm.) together with a colour print of the Parramatta

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Parramatta was launched at Sunderland in 1866, and plied between England and Australia (mostly carrying wool from Australia) and England and America until she foundered in 1898