A History of Australia, Volume IV: The Earth Abideth for Ever, 1851-1888

First softcover edition. viii [8]pp, 478pp, plus occasional monochrome plate illustrations. In printed light card covers. 8vo. Covers a little brushed and faded, gently rubbed at edges in places, reader's creasing on spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring some pencil annotations of first leaf. The fourth volume of Manning Clark's monumental history of Australia continues the narrative from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilisation to Australia on 26 January 1888.