GAP0021 Schwetschke Halle 1861 21.5 cm. Frontispiece, illustrated title, viii, 394 pp with some steel engravigs in the text, 3 (of 4) folding maps at the end. Contemporary half cloth with gilt spine title and marbled boards. Spine sunned, frontispiece and title with erased stamp, a nice clean and crisp copy. With a long 67-page chapter on the discovery and exploration of Australia with illustrations of parrots, a casuarina, Leichhardt's and Stuart's portraits, a kangaroo, lyrebird and South Australian Aborigines (according to the caption based on original photographs!). Bibliography: Ferguson 17469. $550.00AUD
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