A Cruise in the SS 'Governor Musgrave' among the Islands in Spencer's Gulf, January 1907
Adelaide, J.L. Bonython and Co., 'The Advertiser' Office, 1909 ('Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographic Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch', Volume 10, 1907-8).
Octavo, viii, 162 pages with 52 illustrations (19 unnumbered) and 2 folding maps.
Original cerise wrappers, the front cover printed in black and decorated in silver, with a reproduction of the title page illustration of the 'Governor Musgrave' mounted on it; minor expert infill to the leading edge of the rear wrapper and the spine; trifling signs of use and age; an excellent copy.
'Notes on the Physical Geography and Early History of Kangaroo Island and some of the Islands in Spencer's Gulf. Also Reports on Ornithology, Botany, Geology, and on the Aborigines of the Localities visited by Scientists and others in the SS "Governor Musgrave" in January 1907.' The title page is inscribed 'Dr H. Basedow | with the | Compiler's Compliments' (to the anthropologist and explorer Dr Herbert Basedow).
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