THREE EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA (Presentation copy)

Mitchell (Major T.L.)

Description:

WITH DESCRIPTONS OF THE RECENTLY EXPLORED REGION OF AUSTRALIA FELIX, AND OF THE PRESENT COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

2 volumes, I. xxi, 351. II. 405, 16 pages of publisher's catalogue, lithographic frontispieces in each volume (hand coloured in volume I ('Cambo'), lithographic title pages with vignettes (with the imprint of the lithographer Day & Haghe), 49 lithographic plates and maps - some coloured and some folding), many wood-engraved sketches in the text, large folding map of the South East Portion of Australia - the coastline hand coloured in blue and the routes indicated in red - at the end of volume I, half-title page in volume I, original blind-stamped straight-grained cloth, spines gilt titled and decorated, neatly recased - new front free endpaper in volume II, title page in volume I foxed, a number of the other plates are foxed - the coloured plates seem less affected, the text is bright, edges uncut.

Inscription on the front free endpaper of volume I reads, 'To Sir Charles Brooke Vere Bart. M.P. from the Author.'

The frontispiece and plate 40, The Yarrayne River in volume II have been supplied from the second edition of 1839.

Details:

  • Publisher: T. & W. Boone
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1838
  • Edition: First edition
  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (230 x 150 mm)
  • Lot No: 378
  • Hammer Price: $500
  • Bids: 1
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  • Estimate: $750/1000
  • Reserve: $500

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