Item #55170 A contemporary handbill advertising 'Stuart's Journal of Exploration through the Interior of Australia and Across the Continent', published in Melbourne in 1863. John McDouall STUART.
A contemporary handbill advertising 'Stuart's Journal of Exploration through the Interior of Australia and Across the Continent', published in Melbourne in 1863

A contemporary handbill advertising 'Stuart's Journal of Exploration through the Interior of Australia and Across the Continent', published in Melbourne in 1863

[Melbourne, Bailliere, 1863].

A handbill (218 × 137 mm), printed on blue paper; the recto carries the advertisement for Stuart, the verso carries a general advertisement for Bailliere; apart from occasional slight creases to the edges, in fine condition.

The full text of the advertisement is: 'Will be Published, shortly. Stuart's Journal of Exploration through the Interior of Australia and Across the Continent. F.F. Bailliere, 85 Collins Street East, Publisher in Ordinary to the Victorian Government, and Publisher and Importer of British and Foreign Medical and other Scientific Books. || Landsborough's Journal of Exploring Expedition. Portraits and Coloured Maps, showing Tracks of All Explorers. Price: Coloured Copies, 6s.; Plain, 5s. At All Booksellers. A large collection of the Early Voyages to, and Travels in the Australias, on hand'. The text is centered on both sides of the leaflet, and there is no sign along any of the edges that it has been disbound or detached. A horizontal crease across the centre adds further weight to the fact that this is a separately issued handbill advertising the imminent publication of the first account of Stuart's successful sixth expedition, on which he became the first man to cross the continent from south to north and return alive (in December 1862). A rare piece of printed Australian exploration ephemera.

Item #55170

Price (AUD): $550.00

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