Item #134302 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

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

Quarto, [ii], xvi, 408 pages plus 5 plates (one folding, 2 in colour), 2 folding tables and 3 folding maps.

Green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; cloth a little scuffed and lightly bumped at the extremities; free endpapers tanned; front pastedown slightly bubbled; a very good 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.

Item #134302

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