FROUDE, James Anthony. Oceana or England and Her Colonies. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886.
8vo. Origianal publisher's pictorial cloth; pp. xi, 396, wood-engraved vignette to title-page, wood-engraved frontispiece and seven wood-engraved plates; minor rubbing to extremities; internally very good apart from previous bookdealer's pencil annotations to endpapers; contemporary bookdealer's label inside front cover, contemporary bookplate of Leopold de Rothschild above; a very good copy.
First edition, rarely encountered in the publisher's binding. This book deals from a geopolitical and Imperial perspective with the British colonies South of the equator. There is a strong focus on the Cape Colony, Australia and New Zealand. The eminent Victorian historian Froude, after the death of his wife, began to travel the Southern parts of the British Empire, and wrote this book from fist-hnd experienec and conversations with Colonial administrators.
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