The Discovery of Australia: A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans Before the Arrival of Lieut. James Cook in the Endeavour in the Year 1770
Author:
COLLINGRIDGE, GEORGE
Title:
The Discovery of Australia: A Critical, Documentary and Historic Investigation Concerning the Priority of Discovery in Australasia by Europeans Before the Arrival of Lieut. James Cook in the Endeavour in the Year 1770
Publisher:
Hayes Brothers 1895
Description:
FIRST EDITION, quarto, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt illus to front board, deckled page edges, xv + 376pp, illus/maps, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edgeslight cracking to front & rear gutter, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occaisonal light foxing throughout)
Keywords:
first editions history exploration maritime voyages Australasia Europeans
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