Journal of Explorations in Central Australia, by The Central Australian Exploration Syndicate ... 1898 to 1900
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2005/ 1905.
Octavo, two volumes (comprising the text and a matching case of maps), approximately xl, 230 pages plus a few plates new to this edition (the text volume), and 2 extremely large folding colour maps presented as 5 maps in this edition: 'Map of Explorations in Central Australia ... 1898 to 1901', showing the geographical and topographical nature of the relevant regions (575 × 1550 mm, with a small section extending beyond the top margin), and one giving details of an 11,000 square mile block prospected by Davidson in the first two years (paper size 622 × 1747 mm).
Quarter calf (lettered and decorated in gilt) and cloth (with black-pictorial front covers); a fine set.
Number 61 of only 99 copies of the deluxe edition. The original (and only other) edition was South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 27 of 1905, limited to 730 copies (McLaren 7723). This new reset edition is one of the FSLSA's Australian Parliamentary Editions series, limited to only 300 copies, with the first 99 copies numbered and bound in quarter leather. The lengthy introduction by Valmai Hankel 'reveals for the first time details of his busy and adventurous life, and includes the first photographs of him to be published'. [2 items].
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