The World of John Boultbee Including an Account of Sealing in Australia and New Zealand

No signatures. Sprinkle of foxing to top page edges. No tears to dustjacket. Some fading to dustjacket spine. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 329 pages + 133 plates + 30 figures. Brown boards. Page dimensions: 235 x 146mm. "John Boultbee is probably a unique historical figure. He could be the only educated well-brought-up young Englishman ever to have worked as a common sealer among the ruffians usually employed to make up the small gangs left by the early sealing vessels on the islands of Bass Strait and on the southern coast of New Zealand [. . .] His account of his adventures, which he called Journal of a Rambler, was recently made available by the Boultbee family in England." - from dustjacket blurb. Contents: Introduction; The Old World; Van Diemen's Land; Preservation Island; King Island; Phillip Island; Return to Hobart Town; Interlude at Port Macquarie; The Hawkesbury Sealers; Sealing in Fiordland; The Maoris of Foveaux Strait; Stewart Island; The Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land; Bay Whaling; The Last Journeys; Appendices; References Cited; Acknowledgements; Index.; 8vo.…