Queensland and British New Guinea 1898

Queensland. Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly during the Session of 1898, Being the Third Session of the Twelfth Parliament, with the Various Documents Connected Therewith. (In Four Volumes.) Vol. II
Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, 1898.
33cm x 21cm. Approx. xxxiv, 1169 pages, 2 folding tables, 36 plates (3 folding), 11 folding maps. Papered boards, cloth tape spine, paper label.
Contains the Finance papers, including Savings Bank, Queensland National Bank, Trade, Navigation, and Commerce, Insurance, Agent-General and Immigration, Labour Bureau, "Coloured Labour" [blackbirding], and the detailed reports on New Guinea and the Western Pacific which include many folding maps, lithographic and photographic plates.
Some soiling to boards. Some cracking to joints and spine, still firm. Foxing to endpapers, minor to edges, interior clean. The plates in Fine Condition. The first folding map with a few tears, the second with a short closed tear at the hinge, the rest Fine to Near Fine.
Maps & Atlases, Queensland, Australia, Pacific

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