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Adelaide, Public Library of South Australia, 1963.. 2vols. lxxx+220+v+272pp. 8vo. Original leatherette. Colour and b&w plates. Black and white folding map. Booksellers sticker to front pastedown. A very good copy.. Xenographic facsimile

North Adelaide, Corkwood Press reprint edition - hard cover in dust jacket Charles Sturt has long been acclaimed as the father of Australian exploration. Until he blazed the trail with these two expeditions, the centre of New South Wales was a major mystery. Originally published in 1833, this book is one in a series titled ""The Les Hiddins Series of Explorers Journals"". 243 x 157mm., pp. xiv, 298, b/w & colour plates. Original red cloth covered boards, gold blocked spine (title, author). Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, no tears or chips. FINE/FINE ISBN: 1876247096

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1833. First edition. Hardcover. (A)n important book recounting discoveries of the highest consequence & being the 1st publication by one of Australia's most heroic explorers... is scarce & sought after." (Wantrup 118a). LACKS last page of prelims in both volumes & View of the Morumbidgee River & Palaeornis Melanura, or Black-Tailed Paroquet. Written in England while Sturt was undergoing treatment for blindness. It describes his expedition tracing the course of the Macquarie River & the expedition to explore the Lachlan-Murrumbidgee River system, including the Murray River. A total of 4,000 miles were explored. The folding Arrowsmith map is "Map of the Discoveries in Australia, Copied from the latest M.S. Surveys in the Colonial Office. By Permission Dedicated to the Right Honble Viscount Goderich..." dated 15 Feby 1832. With an insert of Western Australia in the top left corner. The map is very slt. foxed, with two early pencilled notations identifying "South… Read More