Item #88044 Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria. T. L. MITCHELL.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria

Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1848.

Octavo, [xvi], xvi (last blank), 438 pages with 11 illustrations (including the title page vignette) plus 12 plates and 7 maps (4 folding).

Gilt-pictorial quarter calf and blind-decorated cloth; a fine copy.

Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 220; there were only 99 numbered copies of this deluxe issue (in a total edition of 600 copies). This is an unnumbered out-of-series copy. The 14-page introduction by Valmai Hankel and Valerie Sitters is new to this edition.

Item #88044

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