Lot 699
  • 699

Jukes, J. Beete

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly, commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood, R.N., in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago… together with an excursion into the eastern part of Java. London: T. & W. Boone, 1847
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (222 x 135mm.), (vol.1) xii, [2], 424pp.; (vol.2) [2pp. adverts], vi, [2], 362pp., 2 folding maps, 19 plates, illustrations in the text, original deep cobalt blue blindstamped cloth, partly unopened, blue morocco-backed cloth boxes

Jukes was zoologist on this expedition which made a detailed scientific survey of the northeast coast of Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, the subject of one of the folding maps.

Provenance

Sir Thomas Phillipps, press-mark

Literature

Ferguson 4549; Hill (2004) 901; Wantrup 92a (but with different advertisements)

Condition

A fine copy
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