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 spotted), 32 pages catalogue at the end dated 31 March 1851, original embossed cloth (spine frayed at head), [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 spotted), 32 pages catalogue at the end dated 31 March 1851, original embossed cloth (spine frayed at head), [Ferguson 4168] 8vo, London 1845

Provenance

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to Walter Stevenson Davidson

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Lot Essay

Wantrup p. 223, this is the first of Strzelecki's two books relating to his Australian travels. 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

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