BLAXLAND, GREGORY.

A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the Year 1813. FIRST ENGLISH plus FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION. 2 vols.

(Vol.1: Being the Edinburgh, Angus & Robertson reprint of the London, B.J. Holdsworth 1823 edition,faithfully reproduced in a limited edition of only 50 numbered copies; Vol. 2: Being the Sydney, Gibbs Shallard & Co. 1870 edition in the orig. printed wrappers sewn as issued). Sm.8vo. Uniformly offered in contemp. hf. dark blue oasis with marbled boards. Spines gilt as issued. (The Sydney edition being loosely inserted within the matching volume). Both volumes preserved in specially made slip case with bevelled edges in matching oasis. A most attractively presented offering of the First Interior Exploration of the Australian Continent. "... the Blaxland expedition is of such fundamental importance in the history of inland exploration that the text in some form must be in every collection" - Wantrup.

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