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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xvi,300+32 page publisher catalogue. Frontis of author, nine illustrations. Three color foldout maps at rear. Decorated green cloth with titles in gilt. Corners bumped, light edgewear. Spine sunned and with a slight lean. Bookplate of William Shankland Andrews [1858-1936] who was a Justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1900-1921. Text clean and bright with mild toning to margins. Binding tight. John Strachan (1846-1922) was a Scottish-born Australian shipmaster and explorer. As a reporter for "Age" newspaper in Sydney, he explored the Mai Kassa River in 1885 and continued further to the Gulf of Papua in 1886, where he claimed 500,000 acres of area he explored. His claim and later appeal to the courts was dismissed as "excitable and rather ignorant". After exploring McClure's Gulf in 1887 from a base in Cape York he published Explorations and Adventures in New Guinea in 1888, which was poorly received by geographers.