David Douglas. Explorer and Botanist
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Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2. Under Command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the Cost of Sir Thomas Elder GCMG for the Purpose of completing the Exploration of Australia ... [Together with] The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-2. Photographs ... [Together with] The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-2. Confidential Report
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1893; 2002 [first thus]; and 2003 [first thus]. Each of the three parts is limited to 400 numbered copies; the three were published at different times and the volumes offered here do not carry the same edition number. The two maps accompanying the..... More
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-92. Under Command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the Cost of Sir Thomas Elder GCMG for the Purpose of completing the Exploration of Australia ...
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1893. Number 31 of only 50 sets of this deluxe edition (in the total print-run of 400 sets). The publisher's Catalogue Number 3 (January 2000) is loosely inserted. [2 items]. More
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-92. Under Command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the cost of Sir Thomas Elder GCMG for the purpose of completing the exploration of Australia ...
North Adelaide, Corkwood Press, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1893. One of only 400 numbered sets. The map in the original edition is here in duplicate; the second copy is the geological map, overprinted in colour. Not previously reprinted (hence great value at the price). More
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-92. Under Command of D. Lindsay. Equipped solely at the Cost of Sir Thomas Elder GCMG for the Purpose of completing the Exploration of Australia ...
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1893. The journal was originally published with two maps; they are basically identical, but one has added chromolithographic geological features, and a key. This second map is not offered here. McLaren 12614 (the dimensions for the maps are larger than those we have recorded here, because McLaren..... More
An Expedition across Australia from South to North, between the Telegraph Line and the Queensland Boundary, in 1885-6. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, Volume XI, Number 11, November 1889
London, Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society, 1889. An account of Lindsay's private expedition of 1885-86, in which '... he took seven men and twelve camels from Hergott Springs to the Gulf of Carpentaria, tracing the Finke River to its mouth and seeking information about Ludwig Leichhardt. Lindsay surveyed..... More
The Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch. Explorations in the Northern Territory of South Australia [cover title]
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer [for the RGSSA], 1888. This rare pamphlet contains an account of Lindsay's 'Arnheim's Land Explorations in 1883', but it primarily concerns a more recent expedition, 'a private one, fitted out at my own expense'. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has the following to say about..... More
![Item #110166 'Territoria. The Great Lone Land. Land of the Dawning' [cover title]. David LINDSAY,...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/110166_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669591424)
'Territoria. The Great Lone Land. Land of the Dawning' [cover title]
Adelaide, Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League, 1909. The sub-title beneath the drop-title 'Territoria' at the beginning of the text proper on page 5 is instructive: 'A Sketch of its Immense Resources. Reasons for Past Failures. Suggestions for Future Successes. The..... More
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