Northmost Australia. Three Centuries of Exploration Discovery and Adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula Queensland ... 2 vols.

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Melbourne: George Robertson & Co. 1922. Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly rubbed). Spines gilt. With frontispiece 38 full-page b/w plates and all 17 folding maps in endpockets incl. the 'Øndex Map'. Missing front fly-leaf on Vol. 2 otherwise complete with all maps present. Endpapers and edges foxed and tape marks on endpapers. Inscription on fly-leaf of Vol. 1. NOTE: An exhaustive account of explorers' narratives including hitherto unpublished documents. An important and definitive study.