Cattle Chosen, The Story of the First Group Settlement in Western Australia 1829 to 1849

WEST AUSTRALIANA SCARCE

The story of the first group settlement (Bussell family) in Western Australia 1829 to 1841, by a professor of history and economics at the University of Western Australia.

Edward Shann’s classic case study of the Bussell family illustrates the hardships of the early European settlement of south-west Australia.

FIRST EDITION> 8vo, xi, 186pp, b&w frontispiece portrait, folding map.

• xi, 186 p. : ill., map, port. ; 19 cm.

Orange cloth with titles in black at front board and spine. #081123

(Notes by previous owner on fpd, some scoring of dates, handwritten genealogical details of Bussell family on fep.)

Facsimile edition was published in 1978. This is the 1926 First Edition!

A VERY SOUND & TIGHT COPY (No dustjacket.)

• Land settlement — Western Australia — Cape Leeuwin — History
• Leeuwin, Cape, Region (W.A.) — History