Salvado, R.

Memorias Historicas sobre L Australia, y particularmente acera La Mision Benedictina de Nueva Nursia, y los Usos y Costumbres de los Salvajes

Barcelona: Los Herederos, 1853. 8vo. Hardcover. pp. 8, 400, complete with frontispiece folding map of Australia , engraved portraits of Salvado (Bishop of Puerto Victoria) and Jose Serra, Bishop of Perth, 12 plates, including a view of the mission at Nueva Nursia, crossing the Murray River, indigenous people, etc. Orignsl quarter clota, marbled boards. An account of the Benedictine mission at now controversial New Nursia (Norcia) in Western Australia where Benedictine monks and nuns ran schools from 1848 through into the 1970s. Rare first Spanish edition of the memoirs first published in Italian in 1851. Very Good. Item #020754

Price: $820.00 NZD