xxxi 415 pages, indexed. This is an ex library copy. The library damage is limited to the preliminaries and the back end paper amnd paste down as well as an ownership stamp on the head of page xi. Overall the book is in excellent condition, clean and solid, and appears to have been rarely borrowed. "Selected correspondence between the Governor of New south Wales, Sir George Gipps, and his subordinate, C.J. La Trobe, Superintendent of the Port Phillip District, from 1839 to 1846 ; includes discussion of the problems posed by the conflict between the European settlers and Aboriginal people and the failure of the Aboriginal protectorate." (Trove)