Item #32928 Explorations ... between Fowler's Bay and West of the Head of the Great Australian Bight (since called 'Nullarbor Plain' and 'Bunda Plateau') made in October and November 1860. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 19, Session 1917-18. Major Peter Egerton WARBURTON.

WARBURTON, Major Peter Egerton

Explorations ... between Fowler's Bay and West of the Head of the Great Australian Bight (since called 'Nullarbor Plain' and 'Bunda Plateau') made in October and November 1860. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 19, Session 1917-18

Adelaide, RGSSA, 1919.

Octavo, [10] pages (in a total of xvi, 162, [1] pages plus plates and a folding map).

Original wrappers slightly chipped at the ends of the spine and a little unevenly sunned; an excellent copy.

The first publication in book form of this account, which originally appeared in the 'South Australian Register', 26 December 1860. McLaren 16513. Offered with a fine copy of Volume 21 of the Proceedings (xviii, 136, [1] pages with illustrations plus plates and folding maps); together they contain approximately twenty articles (totalling 107 pages plus 16 plates and a folding map) on the exploration and history of the Nullarbor. Articles include a translation of Purry's 1718 Memoires, detailing the first proposal to establish a Dutch colony on the south coast of Australia; first-hand accounts by Delisser, H.Y.L. Brown, L.A. Wells and others, plus a description of Ooldea Water by Daisy Bates. [2 items].