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Shire of Toodyay > Records

GIBRALTAR AND ITS SIEGES

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c. 1888

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Hardback book titled 'Gibraltar and its Sieges'.
Brown cover with title in embossed block print with gold highlights. Cover illustration - behind title text - is a black outline of a mountain range with flag and banner at lower foreground draped over a cannon. Cover has deteriorated in places and book is worn.
Publisher: London: Thomas Nelson.
(Originally published in 1879, the date of this edition is unknown.)
158 pages, including plates, illustrations, maps.

Inside cover label affixed "Seventh Prize Third Class Presented to Miss M Solomon, June 22nd 1888"

Historical information

The original owner, per the inscription, is believed to have been Mabel Patti Solomon: born 11 Oct 1877. Mabel married William Patrick Dempster and had 8 children. She died on 18 Nov 1924 in Northam, WA.
Mabel was the younger sister of Emma Amalie Solomon (1873-1960) who was the original owner of the book, 'Claudia, A Tale', Shire of Toodyay collection 2001.1810.

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Inside cover label affixed "Seventh Prize Third Class Presented to Miss M Solomon, June 22nd 1888"

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CLAUDIA : A TALE BY A.L.O.E.

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