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STOKES, John Lort: 'Discoveries in Australia, with an account…
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Hobart
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22-Nov-2015
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STOKES, John Lort: 'Discoveries in Australia, with an account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. . . Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.' [T. and W. Boone, London, 1846], 1st ed. Two volumes, octavo, with 26 engraved plates (including frontispieces) and 2 folding charts (6 loose charts are absent, as usual), some occasional light spotting in the margins of plates but generally a very good untrimmed set, all of the many advertising pages and slips noted by Wantrup present as per first issue, rebound in blue cloth retaining the gold lettered spines of the original bindings.
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