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Author: FLINDERS, MATTHEW. (Edited and with an introduction
by Anthony J. Brown and Gillian Dooley).
Title:
Matthew Flinders Private Journal. From 17 December 1803 at
Isle of France to 10 July 1814 at London.
Subtitle:
Foreword by Witgar Hitchcock, Preface by Paul Brunton.
Description:
First Deluxe Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. xxxiv, 566; decorated
endpapers, coloured frontispiece portrait of Flinders, 12 full
page coloured plates, 26 b/w. text illustrations including folding
plan of London, chart in pocket at rear of book, glossary, notes,
index, original quarter leather binding, raised bands, title lettered
in gilt on spine, gilt decoration on spine and boards, blind stamped
decoration of sextant on front board, silk page marker, fine copy.
Comment:
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies bound in quarter leather.
This Deluxe edition was sold out long before publication and has
become a scarce collectors item. Publisher: Adelaide; The Friends
of the State Library of South Australia; 2005.
Publisher:
Adelaide; The Friends of the State Library of South Australia;
2005.
Price:
AUD$750
Book
ID:105713
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