Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

during the years 1837 38 and 39 under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered important and fertile districts with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants &c. &c. London: T. and W. Boone 1841. Two octavo volumes bound in (later?) half calf over marbled boards with contrasting morocco titling labels and gilt lettering to spine. The edges are marbled. (The endpapers have been renewed?) Volume one comprises a frontispiece plus an additional ten full-page plates (five of which are coloured) a number of in-text illustrations and two maps preserved in a cloth pocket affixed to the inside of the rear board. Volume two boasts a coloured frontispiece ten full-page black and white plates plus in-text illustrations. There are natural history appendices at the end of volume two by John Gould (on birds) John Edward Gray (on mammals reptiles and amphibians) and Adam White (on insects). The plates in both volumes are a little foxed; this is nonetheless a fine set of the first edition.