Item #76248 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyage of HMS 'Beagle' (in 1837-43) ... Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. J. Lort STOKES.

STOKES, J. Lort

Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyage of HMS 'Beagle' (in 1837-43) ... Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969 (facsimile edition)/ 1846.

Octavo, two volumes, [ii], xvi, 522 and [ii], x, 543 pages with 28 illustrations plus 29 plates and 8 folding maps.

Synthetic cloth slightly bumped at the extremities; an excellent set.

'Stokes was several times entrusted with the closer examination of what is now the Northern Territory coast. He was the first to discover and name the Victoria River and Port Darwin' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 33. Peade: one of 797 sets.