A Vacation Tour at the Antipodes, through Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand, in 1861-162

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. Good with no dust jacket. 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the folding map from pocket at front. Otherwise good. Boards rubbed. 4mm missing to cloth at head of spine. Splits to gutters at endpapers and at title leaf. A 20mm tear and small 3mm chips to margins of the folding map of Terra Australia. Moderate dampstains and tidemarks to plates. ; This copy inscribed by the author's brother, James Heyward F.R.S. (1810-1897) to J. Cosmo Newbery. The inscription reads "Presented to J Cosmo Newbery on his departure for Melbourne by James Heyward Esq. F.R.S. Palace Gardens London 24/3/65". James Cosmo Newbury (1843-1895) was born in Italy. After living in Boston, USA and education at the Royal School of Mines, London, he emigrated to Melbourne in 1865 as an analyst for the Geological Survey of Victoria [Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume V, 1974 (accessed online August 2021)]. viii, 251, [1] pages + frontispiece + 7 plates + 2 [of 3] folding maps. Contemporary blind-stamped red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 121mm. The plates include "New Zealand Gold Fields - Gabriel's Gully, Tuapeka, Otago" and "Mr Landsborough (The Australian Explorer) and two Aborigines". Large cloth-backed folding map at rear showing Australia, New Zealand, Auckland, and the Otago Gold Fields. "As I was recommended to take a Long Vacation, and to have a thorough change of air, for the benefit of my health, I determined to make a voyage to the Antipodes, with the intention of returning home through the Pacific and via Panama." - from the Preface. 7 plates facing pages 39, 93, 161, 164, 191, 217, 234. The map facing page iii is "North Western Australia". The map facing page viii is "Terra Australis," "Reduced from the original in Harris's Voyages, for Heywood's Vacation Tour in the Antipodes." [References: Bagnall 2589 - "Despite the number of places visited on two or more occasions, Hocken's stricutres 'A scamper through the islands; of little interest' are not unjust."; Hocken p. 223; Ferguson 10401]. .