Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria
by [Exploration]. MITCHELL, T.L
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1848. Octavo, [xvi], xvi (last blank), 438 pages with 11 illustrations (including the title-page vignette) plus 12 plates and 7 maps (4 folding). Gilt-decorated red cloth very slightly marked; commercial bookplate to the front pastedown; an excellent copy. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 220; one of only 501 copies thus. The 14-page introduction by Valmai Hankel and Valerie Sitters is new to this edition; publisher's brochure is loosely inserted.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 137734
- Title
- Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Author
- [Exploration]. MITCHELL, T.L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Friends of the State Library of South Australia
- Place of Publication
- Adelaide
- Date Published
- 1999
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