Authors: DUTTON, HENRY HAMPDEN.

Title: Across Australia By Motor.

Description: First Edition; Oblong Demy 12mo; pp. (52) unpaginated printed on rectos only; title page and 51 pages of b/w. captioned photographs, 1 folding map at the front showing the route taken from Adelaide to Port Darwin, bound in stiff illustrated overlapping green wrappers, title lettered in red on upper wrapper, edges of the wrappers chipped, internally fine.

Comment: Dutton privately produced the book to record his successful 1908 trip with Murray Aunger from Adelaide to Port Darwin, along with some photographs from his first unsuccessful trip a year earlier, reputed to be the earliest book on a motor car expedition published in Australia. The booklet of 51 photographs record the trips, places of interest, river crossings, sandhill crossings, and 5 photographs of Central Australian Aborigines.

Publisher: (Adelaide; J. L. Bonython & Co., Printers; (c-1909) ).

Price: AUD$1850.00

Book ID: 126745

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