[Sullivan's Cove]. DARKE, John Charles

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.

Green cloth with a paper title-label on the front cover; a fine copy with the plain glassine dustwrapper.

One of only 175 copies initialled by the publisher (James Dally). This is 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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