JOURNALS OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATIONS
by GREGORY, Augustus Charles; GREGORY, Francis Thomas:
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia., 1969. Facsimile edition. Octavo. Publisher's original brown rexine with titles in gilt to the spine. Illustrated with five half-tone plates. A very good copy, the binding square and firm. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, ink inscription to the front free endpaper, and faint foxing to the edges of the textblock are otherwise in very good order. The journals of eight expeditions undertaken by the Gregory brothers in Western Australia and Central Australia between 1846 and 1861. A facsimile edition reproducing the original 1884 edition.
'Australiana Facsimiles Editions No. 14'.
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- Bookseller
- Sky Duthie Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1109
- Title
- JOURNALS OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATIONS
- Author
- GREGORY, Augustus Charles; GREGORY, Francis Thomas:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia.
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Travel & Exploration
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Following a period in academia focusing on the history of ideas and after several years working for a prominent rare bookseller, the business was established in 2022 by Dr Sky Duthie.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...