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41958 JACK, ROBERT LOGAN.
- Northmost Australia. Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure
in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. With a Study of the Narratives
of all Explorers by Sea and Land in the Light of Modern Charting, many Original
or Hitherto Unpublished Documents, Thirty-Nine Illustrations, and Sixteen [actually
17 including Index map] Specially Prepared maps.
First Edition; thick roy.
8vo; Volume I. pp. xvi, 366. portrait frontispiece, 20 portriats of explorers,
9 folding maps in pocket (including Index map); Volume II. pp. xiv, 367-768. 18
portraits of explorers, 8 folding maps in pocket , 3 indices; both volumes in
original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spines, original dustjackets,
some foxing on edges and endpapers but otherwise a very good set, scarce to find
set with dustjackets intact. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd.,
4 Stationers' Hall Court . 1921. An important work which contains, among
numerous other narratives, rare accounts of explorations which are virtually unprocurable
in original form, e.g., those by William Carron, William Hann, James Mulligan,
George Dalrymple, Donald Laing, J.T. Embley, Tasman, James Cook, Philip Parker
King, J. Beete Jukes, Torres, Quiros, Ludwig Leichhardt, Edmund Kennedy, Landsborough,
John McKinlay, Frank Jardine, and others. Including also the not unimportant explorations
of the Author. Also voyages of the Peras, Arnhem, Aernem, Buijs, Rijder, Pandora,
Hormuzer, Chesterfield, Investigator, Mermaid, Charles Eaton, L"Astrolabe, La
Zelee, Fly, Bramble, Prince George, Midge, Rattlesnake, Basilisk and more.
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