Stuart by Stuart John Mcdouall: First Edition (3 results)

Condition: New. An 1864 account of six expeditions into the Australian outback by one of the leading explorers of the time. Editor(s): Hardman, William. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania. Num Pages: 568 pages, 13 b/w illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 710. . 2011. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . …

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. First Edition Thus. Edited by Valmai Hankel & Mark Gilbert, Introduction by Valmai Hankel, The text has been edited from versions published in the "Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol 31, 1861" and in "Explorations in Australia. The journals of John McDouall Stuart during the years 1858.1862" edited by William Hardman (London 1864).xxviii, 64pages, [last blank], fold out map, frontispiece. Olive green buckram boards with blind embossing on front & rear boards, title in gilt on spine. A New Copy.; 225 x 150mm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Melbourne, Government Printer, 1858. Foolscap folio, [ii] (title page, verso blank), 9 pages plus a large folding map ('Country in South Australia explored by John McDouall Stuart. June to September, 1858', 600 × 510 mm, 'Lithographed by W. Knight at the Crown Lands Office, Melbourne'). A fine copy in recent blind-decorated quarter calf and cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number A3 of 1858 (a reprint of South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858). This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the Northern Flinders Ranges in mid-May. They skirted the south end of Lake Torrens and then turned north and north-west until they reached the present site of Coober Pedy. They then followed a southerly course to Lake Gairdner, passing it on the west side. After a strenuous march, they arrived at Ceduna . By now the men had run out of provisions. They travelled along the coast to Streaky Bay and from there to the settled districts at Mount Arden in a state of semi-starvation' (Feeken, Feeken and Spate, 1970). McLaren 15457 (noting the map, but as ever, recording the size of the sheet of paper, not the printed surface).…