A Successful Exploration through the Interior of Australia, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria. From the Journals and Letters of William John Wills. Edited by his Father, William Wills
London, Richard Bentley, 1863. The first issue of the first edition, with the inappositely festive endpapers and the 32-page publisher's catalogue. Wantrup 172a (and page 313: 'In view of the grisly outcome of the Burke and Wills expedition these cheerful, if somewhat garish, endpapers are without doubt the single most..... More