All Prices listed are in Canadian Funds. Canadian residents to add 5% GST. Shipping charges will be added. U.S. clients will be billed in U.S. funds at the current rate of exchange.
RASHLEIGH, Ralph. The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh A Penal Exile in Australia 1825-1844. With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Earl of Birkenhead.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1929). First edition. Tall 8vo., cloth, (350), (2)pp.ads. Near fine in the d/w with a piece out at the top of the spine but still very good.
"...relates the real adventures of a man transported to Australia at the beginning of the last century. It reveals, through the sufferings and vicissitudes of a single convict transported to New South Wales for burglary, a clear and vivid picture of the conditions under which the penal code was administered less than one hundred years ago..."