with an Historical Sketch of the Colony, under its several Administrations, to the Period of Captain Grey’s Departure.
First edition. Large folding map (hand-coloured in outline) in front pocket, another map & 5 etched plates, with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original blind stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt with kangaroos blocked in gilt in lower compartment. A little rubbed. Professionally rebacked, with original spine laid on. Fore-corners bruised. Very good otherwise. 2pp.ads. bound in between front endpapers. (Stokes’ Discoveries in Australia), x, 361pp. London, T. & W. Boone, 1846.
Inscribed on the front pastedown “For the Misses Rohe from the Author.”
With additional ads. slip for Eyre’s Journals … facing page one and the rare large folding map found in a front pocket, noted by Fergusson in the Public Library of South Australia. Fergusson, 4267; Abbey, 578.
