Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia during the years 1837 38 and 39 under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government.

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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 original blind-stamped purple cloth with gilt lettering and vignettes to spines (rebacked preserving the orig. spine strips and endpapers renewed). Uncut. Volume I comprises a frontispiece plus an additional 10 full-page plates (5 of which are coloured) a number of in-text illustrations 2 folding maps preserved in a pocket behind the front pastedown of Volume I 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at the front and 16 pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Volume II boasts a coloured frontispiece 10 full-page black and white plates in-text illustrations and the 4-page Prospectus for John Gould's The Birds of Australia at the front. There are natural history appendices at the end of volume II by John Gould (on birds) John Edward Gray (on mammals reptiles and amphibians) and Adam White (on insects). The bookplate of Eric Glenie Bonython appears on the front pastedowns of both volumes. Despite some slight foxing this is a fine copy of the first edition (early issue) uncut and complete with all publisher's advertisements.