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British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-03-25. Paperback. Good.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Geographical memoirs on New South Wales. By various hands ... Edited by B. F. [With an appendix.].

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

British Library, Historical Print Editions. paperback. New. 7x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: John Murray, 1825., 1825. 8vo. pp. ownership entry of Thomas B.Hassall, 1825. 8vo. pp. xvi, 504. aquatint frontis. & 2 engraved botanical plates. 4 folding engraved maps. original cloth-backed bds. (some foxing, paper flaw in frontis., joints, spine ends & label frayed & chipped). few old ms. notes. First Edition of this collection of material relating to major expeditions and discoveries in New South Wales and eastern Australia. Included here are two reports relating to Surveyor-General John Oxley's expedition to survey Port Curtis and Moreton Bay, with a view to forming convict establishments there, and on which he discovered the Brisbane River and chose the site of the future city of Brisbane, written by Oxley himself and by John Uniacke, the only published account of Allan Cunningham's exploration from Bathurst to the Liverpool Plains, Field's essay on the aborigines of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land, Captain Mark John Currie's journal of an excursion to… Read More