Item #10731 Journals of Expeditions in Van Diemen's Land, 1833. John Charles DARKE.
Journals of Expeditions in Van Diemen's Land, 1833

Journals of Expeditions in Van Diemen's Land, 1833

Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove ('set and printed entirely by hand at the Nag's Head Press in Christchurch'), 1985.

Duodecimo, 43, [2] (blank, colophon) pages.

Cloth with a paper title-label on the front cover; a fine copy with the plain opaque-paper dustwrapper lightly chipped at the foot of the spine, with a tiny sealed tear to the rear bottom edge.

Number 97 of only 175 copies initialled by the publisher (James Dally); the first publication of these expeditions (from the original manuscripts in the Archives Office of Tasmania). They are 'To the Peak of Teneriffe 1833' and 'South West of the Peak 1833'. The publisher notes that the 'Peak of Teneriffe' is Wyld's Craig, and that Darke's 'Derwent' is the Nive.

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