Geographic travels in central Australia from 1872 to 1874.

£1,250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Published with assistance from Ferdinand von Mueller who contributes an introduction, and a list of the plants collected at the end. French was a life long friend and protege of Mueller, which explains why he was presenting the book. Wallace certainly read it since there is a pencil note in his hand on the flyleaf p. 204 Delicious horse dampers! where we read “The most favourite method of cooking the horse-flesh was by first boiling, then pounding with a shoeing hammer, then cutting it up into small pieces, wetting the whole mass and making it into the form of a damper…”. Ferguson 9912.

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