Spencer's Last Journey: Being the journal of an expedition to Tierra del Fuego by the Last Sir Baldwin Spencer with a Memoir

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

Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press) 1931. 8vo. Blue cloth boards. Gilt ship on front board and gilt title to spine. Dustjacket. (Light toning and rubbing). Two fold-out maps of Tierra del Fuego and Navarin Island including 13 b/w plates and figures throughout. Previous owner's hand-written inscription on front end-paper with light toning also at rear. Light foxing on page edges. Good condition. NOTE: Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929) was the second director of the National Museum of Victoria a noted biologist photographer anthropologist and helped transform university standards of Australian science.