John McDouall Stuart's Explorations, 1858-62. South Australian Parliamentary Papers, 1858-63
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2001 (first thus)/ 1858 to 1863.
Octavo, xxxvi, 396 pages with a frontispiece portrait plus a large folding map.
Black-pictorial tan cloth slightly marked near the head of the spine; an excellent copy.
Australian Parliamentary Editions Number 3; one of only 500 copies. The prospectus is loosely inserted. 'This work republishes the five ... papers published soon after the end of each of Stuart's journeys' (with the exception of the second expedition from April to July 1859, which was not published as a parliamentary paper); the map is reproduced from the 1865 edition of the journals, edited by Hardman. The 29-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition.
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