John Arrowsmith Map and John Walker Map (1 results)
More imagesJournal of the Royal Geographical Society , Volume II, 1832. [with maps 'South East portion of Australia during the progress of discovery in the interior of New South Wales to 1832' and 'Western Australia from the latest documents received 1832']
Stirling, James ; Allan Cunningham ; Robert FitRoy ; Capt John Ross ; John Arrowsmith (map) and John Walker (map)
Published by John Murray for Royal Geographical Society, London 1832
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Leather. 1st Edition. 1st ed., Volume 2, octavo, full leather binding, gilt decoration to spine, gilt titled red leather spine label, maps, pp (viii), 334. Complete with all 11 maps. Some rubs and scrapes boards, trace of water damage corners of endpapers, foxing to first page of Nile report, also to maps of Africa and Egypt, li…ght staining to margins (only) of New South Wales map. The map of Western Australia in near fine conditon. Amorial bookplate of J.T. Williamson. Very good condition. Maps include John Walker's large folding map of Western Australia whic accompanies Recent Information from Australia with a despatch from Lieut-Governor James Stirling describing the Swan River district, 2 April 1832, and Arrowsmith's large folding map of New South Wales to accompany Allan Cunningham's report of exploration of the interior. Also included: a letter from Captain FitzRoy regarding the Abrolhos Islands, and maps of North Africa, the Egyptian desert, British Guiana, the Maldives, the mouth of the Ganges river, New Zealand, the Virgin Islands, the Upper Nile, west Africa.
