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TASMANIA -- Meredith (Louisa Anne): Bush Friends in Tasmania; Native Flowers, Fruits and Insects, Drawn from Nature, London and New York, Macmillan & Co., [1891], number 246 of 700 copies signed by the author, last series, folio, inscribed at foot of title: 'Dearest Emmie desires me to write in her child's book - May she be as bright, honest and charming as her dear Mother! L.A. Meredith. London, Octr. 29th '91', chromolithographed additional title, dedication, 11 plates, 9 uncoloured plates, illustrations (additional title lightly spotted and marginally damp-stained, several leaves detached, edges bumped), original cloth (foot of spine torn, small hole at head of spine, extremities rubbed). [Nissen BBI 1339; Ferguson 12513]; Our Island Home; A Tasmanian Sketchbook, Hobart, J. Walch & Sons, London, Marcus Ward and Co., 1879, first edition, folio, 12 autotype plates after Meredith, original pictorial cloth, g.e. [Ferguson 12513] (2)