Item #113771 Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18. John OXLEY.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 (facsimile edition)/ 1820.

Quarto, with 5 plates, 3 folding charts and 2 folding tables.

Green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; edges very slightly marked; endpapers lightly browned; an excellent copy.

The record of Oxley's expeditions to chart the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers, considered to be 'the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New South Wales' (Wantrup: 'Australian Rare Books'). Peade A6: one of only 506 copies.

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