Narrative of the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to the south-east coast of New Guinea, October to December, 1884. With illustrations

by New Guinea, Commodore James E. Erskine

$55,000 · Offered by Hordern House

Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885. Large square folio, with a folding map, three coloured lithograph plates, 33 original silver albumen photographs 283 x 212 mm mounted on card with printed captions and borders, and two superb panoramas, one of them double-page 240 x 553 mm and the other on four sheets 242 x 1053 mm ; original dark blue grained morocco binding, bevelled edges, spine banded and sides with multiple borders in

• Binding: Leather

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