The Bushrangers: A Yankee's Adventures during his second visit to Australia

Thomes, William H. The Bushrangers: A Yankee's Adventures during his second visit to Australia (The Gold-Hunter's Library). Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1865. Later printing. [10915] Green pebble cloth with blind borders, gilt to spine, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 1880 owner's signature on ffep, tight. Wood-engraved frontispiece, extra engraved title page, several additional plages. 480 clean pages. Very good. Hardcover. 1865 copyright; this printing circa 1880.  William Henry Thomes (1824-1895), b. Portland, Me; Thomes was a journalist, editor, travel writer, and novelist. He wrote several rollicking tales of adventure. In 1842 he went to sea on the ship Admittance, and sailed round the Horn to California. After returning to Boston he caught the gold fever of the great Gold Rush, and returned to San Francisco. He then joined a ship's crew bound for the Orient, and visited Hawaii, Guam, Manila and China, then spending a year or more in Australia. "He returned to Boston and to the printing trad