Matthew Flinders' Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis : 1798 Preceded and Followed by Notes on Flinders, Bass, the Wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c

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The DeLuxe issue, number 8 of 100 specially-bound copies, from an edition of 750, in the original green pictorial morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt schooner illustrations to boards, gilt spine titles & raised bands, faintest of browning to spine. Internally, [6], 7-100 pp, [1] map, [1] limitation, 7 wood-engraved illustrations by John Buckland Wright ( 1 full page & 6 paragraph headers 1 illustration within title & the cockerel to the limitation leaf, full page map, printed in green & black on pale grey paper, t.e.g., others uncut. Housed in the publishers yellow loth slip case, some light foxing, gilt tooling & binders stamp to turn ins, (with the resulting light offsetting. (312*186 mm). (Cockalorum 170. Davidson, p124. Hill 2, 615). Provides a first-hand account of early Australian maritime exploration & documents a formative period in British colonial expansion in Australia , enhancing our understanding of how early explorers navigated and interpreted new territories.