Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939, The Library of Franklin Brooke- Hitching, Part 3, K-P

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拍品 918
  • 918

Napier, Francis

估價
600 - 900 GBP
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描述

  • Notes of a Voyage from New South Wales to the North Coast of Australia. [Glasgow: Privately Printed, 1876]
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (185 x 121mm.), 96pp., 5 maps (one full-page and 4 folding), photographic portrait, 8 plates, original green cloth, gilt, red endpapers, slipcase

來源

Isabella Rigby, presentation inscription from James Napier, her uncle

出版

Ferguson 13058; Wantrup 102

拍品資料及來源

PRESENTATION COPY, from James Napier, brother of the author, and publisher of the book, inscribed "To Isabella Rigby with her Uncle Jas R. Napiers love".

Privately printed account of the expedition under Captain Cadell in 1867 which crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria from Cape York and explored the Liverpool River. After a failed first attempt to find the mouth of the Roper River the party returned to Burketown; going back to Maria Island the Roper was found.