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JOURNAL OF AN EXPERIMENTAL TRIP BY THE 'LADY AUGUSTA,' ON THE RIVER MURRAY.
by ALLEN, James:
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia., 1976. Facsimile edition. Octavo. Publisher's original green rexine with titles in gilt to the spine. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a touch of bumping to the corners. The contents with a previous owner's inscription to the half title page and some light scattered foxing to the edges of the textblock are otherwise in very good order. A facsimile of the 1853 first edition of this account of the first steam navigation of the River Murray.
'Australiana Facsimiles Editions No. 202'.
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- Bookseller
- Sky Duthie Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1108
- Title
- JOURNAL OF AN EXPERIMENTAL TRIP BY THE 'LADY AUGUSTA,' ON THE RIVER MURRAY.
- Author
- ALLEN, James:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia.
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Travel & Exploration
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About Sky Duthie Rare Books
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Following a period in academia focusing on the history of ideas and after several years working for a prominent rare bookseller, the business was established in 2022 by Dr Sky Duthie.
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- Facsimile
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