STRZELECKI (SIR PAUL EDMUND, COUNT DE): Physical description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, hand-coloured folding engraved map, sepia lithographed frontispiece portrait of 'Jenny, native of Port Sorell', 19 lithographed plates, one folding, (a few numerals shaved or cropped), 32 page catalogue at the end dated October 1847 (some plates and leaves waterstained mainly in margin), modern cloth [Ferguson 4168], 8vo, London 1845

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STRZELECKI (SIR PAUL EDMUND, COUNT DE): Physical description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, hand-coloured folding engraved map, sepia lithographed frontispiece portrait of 'Jenny, native of Port Sorell', 19 lithographed plates, one folding, (a few numerals shaved or cropped), 32 page catalogue at the end dated October 1847 (some plates and leaves waterstained mainly in margin), modern cloth [Ferguson 4168], 8vo, London 1845

來源

LADY JANE FRANKLIN'S COPY, with signature dated December 1848; ownership inscription of The Right Honourable Sir Henry Elliott, G.C.B., 7th May 1886. The dedication to Capt. Sir John Franklin, acknowledges the assistance 'both of Lady Franklin and yourself'.

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拍品專文

This is the first of Strzelecki's two books relating to his Australian travels, see Wantrup p. 223. This copy contains two additional sepia lithographed plates 'Jenny, native of the Hampshire Hills' after T. Bock, and 'View of Ben Nevis and Ben Lomond, Van Diemen's Land, after James McArthur (both waterstained)