"Charles Joseph La Trobe arrived in Melbourne in 1839 as Superintendent of the Southern, or Port Phillip, District of New South Wales. The pastoral invasion of Port Phillip was under way and the "village" on the Yarra, though barely four years old, was already being engulfed in the township created by the boom in sheep and wool. Few towns anywhere in the world have grown so prodigiously, and the turmoil of Melbourne's early municipal politics marked but the beginnings of the controversies that beset La Trobe's tenure of office. .A biographical portrait of Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor has been log awaited; Mr. Gross has succeeded admirably in presenting both the personality of the Governor and the changing picture of those stormy years. The illustrations including of early Melbourne and the gold fields by S. T. Gill and William Liardet." --- Original red cloth boards, lettered gilt on spine (22 cm height). Endpapers: tinted illustration of early Melbourne. Signed by Author on Half Title. Very faint flecking to boards. Illustrated dustwrapper, some chips to spine ends, now protected. Pp. ix (i) 157 including Preface, List of Illustrations (Frontispiece: "Charles Joseph La Trobe, portrait by F. Grant): + 11), Appendix I: Chronology, Appendix II: Population, 1839-53, Appendix III: Public Expenditure, 1851-53, Appendix IV: Genealogy, Bibliography, Index.

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Title: Charles Joseph La Trobe
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
Publication Date: 1956
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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