AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY: Volume I, BY SEA and Volume II, BY LAND ( Two Vol. Set Complete )

Scott, Ernest (editor)

Verlag: J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1929

Beschreibung

2 volumes, red cloth, 1st ed.(1929), 412 + 422 pages With contemporary Portraits & Maps, in Near Good (soiled with chips & tears, Vol. I has 2" piece missing bottom of spine) Dust Jackets. Lightly soiled exteriors with very minor silverfish damage, some foxing scattered throughout text, otherwise text clean / unmarked. Scarce with dust jackets. Dust jackets now protected in mylar sleeve. An excellent description of the voyages of discovery of the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French and English. Read of the wrecks and disasters on the West coast hundreds of years before Cook reached the East Coast. Also has extensive coverage of discovery on land from Blaxland to Stuart. Engaging extracts from explorer's journals never better presented than in this collection by the eminent Australian historian Ernest Scott. Illustrations and maps included. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers CE223688

Bibliografische Details

Titel: AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY: Volume I, BY SEA and ...

Verlag: J. M. Dent & Sons, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1929

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair

Auflage: First edition.