Spencer, Sir Walter Baldwin, editor.

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. London: Dulau and Co., and Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896
paper

First edition, 4 volumes bound in 3, 8vo (242 x 180mm.), 69 plates, comprising 22 photographic and 47 lithographed, large folding lithographed map at the end of part 1 showing the route of the expedition, contemporary brown half pigskin over marbled boards, bookplate of James Edge Partington, [Ferguson 16071], vol.1 expertly rebacked retaining original spine

Catalogue Note

Reports from the first scientific expedition to study the natural history of Central Australia. The expedition was sponsored by the mining magnate William Austin Horn. The owner of this copy, James Edge Partington (1854-1930), was a noted anthropologist and authority on Pacific ethnology.