A Voyage To Terra Australis Undertaken For The Purpose Of Completing The Discovery Of That Vast
$7,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
First edition
Contemporary half russia over marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spines divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, lettered in the second compartment, numbered in the fourth A fine set of the first edition text of the first circumnavigation of Australia an enlightening and fascinating story of brilliant navigation and discovery. Wantrup rightly calls this work the most outstanding book on the coastal navigation of Australia, and the centrepiece of any collection
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