ACROSS PAPUA. Being an account of a voyage round, and a march across the Territory of Papua, with the Royal Commission. With forty plates from photographs and a folding map.
by MACKAY, ColonelKenneth
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McMahons Point, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Lond. Witherby & Co., 1909.. Or.cl. xvi,192pp. uncut. b/w plates & a folding map at the rear of the volume. Sl. foxing & the front hinge sl.worn at the head and tail of spine, else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Mackay was Chairman of the 1906 Royal Commission on British New Guinea, and travelled in that capacity.
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- Bookseller
- Antique Bookshop (AU)
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- 201398
- Title
- ACROSS PAPUA. Being an account of a voyage round, and a march across the Territory of Papua, with the Royal Commission. With forty plates from photographs and a folding map.
- Author
- MACKAY, ColonelKenneth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Lond. Witherby & Co.
- Date Published
- 1909.
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Our store is situated at Crows Nest on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, about a 10 minute drive north from the Sydney CBD, and also convenient to trains and buses. The route 320 bus from Sydney CBD will drop you off outside our door.
We have been members of ANZAAB for many years.
Peter is a Past-President of ANZAAB and has organised many of the ANZAAB Book Fairs held in the last two decades.
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