Swan River Booklets 1-12 by Cygnet

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some booklets have stamps on covers and preliminary pages. Other booklets have rust on the binding staples. Some have moisture stains, but all pages are separate.

Subtitle: A Series of Booklets Dealing with the Early Days of Western Australia.

Originally published in the late 1930s by Swan River Press. The booklets here are the 1956 reprints. Cygnet was a pseudonym of Dr Cyril Bryan.

• No. 1 The Story of H.M.S. Success, 1823-1849: The Ship in Which Captain Stirling Explored the Swan River in 1827
• No. 2 The Story of Foundation Day, June the First, 1829: The Day From Which Governor Stirling Dated the Foundation of the Colony
• No. 3 The Story of H.M.S. Challenger, 1826-1835: The Ship in Which Captain Fremantle Took Possession of Western Australia for the British Crown in 1829
• No. 4 The Story of the Birth of Perth, August the Twelfth, 1829: The Day on Which Perth was Founded by Chopping Down a Tree
• No. 5 The Story of H.M.S. Sulphur: The Ship Which Escorted the Parmelia to Western Australia in 1829
• No. 6 The Story of Dirk Hartog: The First White Man to Land in Australia (October 25th, 1616)
• No. 7 The Story of the Parmelia: The Ship Which Brought Governor Stirling and the First Settlers to Western Australia (June 1st 1829)
• No. 8 The Story of William Dampier: Pirate and King's Captain: The First Englishman to Land in Australia (1688-1699)
• No. 9 The Story of the Rockingham: The Ship Which Pioneered the Peel Settlement, and Ran Ashore at Rockingham, May 14, 1830
• No. 10 The Story of the Perth Causeway: How the River was Bridged Over 100 Years Ago
• No. 11 The Story of the East India Merchantman Success: launched 1840: Later an English Emigrant Ship, a Convict Hulk and finally a Show Boat in American Waters (not to be confused with H.M.S Success)
• No. 12 The Story of the Perth Town Hall: How it was Built 1867-1870

Well illustrated.