JOURNAL OF LANDSBOROUGH'S EXPEDITION FROM CARPENTARIA, IN SEARCH OF BURKE AND WILLS - with a map showing his route - - - DELUXE NUMBERED EDITION - - - Tapa dura - 2000

Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2000. Deluxe, facsimile ed.. Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, quarter bound black leather & blue cloth (gilt spine lettering), gilt string bookmark, frontispiece portrait, map in rear pocket, minor edgewear. 128 pp. William Landsborough is noted for his explorations of Queensland, and for his two expeditions (1861-2) in search of the missing Burke & Wills, the second of which resulted in the first north-to-south crossing of Australia. Facsimile edition of a book first published in Melbourne, 1862. An edition limited to 500 copies, of which 99 deluxe numbered copies are bound in quarter leather (of which this one is No. 75). Introduction by Valmai Hanke, rare books librarian, State Library of South Australia. (No 221 in the 'Australiana Facsimile Editions' series.).

Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia Deluxe facsimile edition - hard cover 225 x 147mm., pp. 10, frontis, 4, 128, fold-out map in rear pocket. Original blue cloth covered boards, quarter bound in black leather, gold blocked spine. This edition was limited to 500 copies of which 99 were NUMBERED AND BOUND IN QUARTER LEATHER. THIS IS COPY No. 42 of the DELUXE NUMBERED EDITION. As NEW. ISBN: 1876154322

Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2000. 128pp, large folding map in rear pocket. Or blue cloth, black leather spine (quarter leather). Edition limited to 500 copies of which 99 were numbered and bound in quarter leather- this copy #41 of the deluxe edition of 99 copies. Facsimile of 1862 original edition. An account of Landsborough's search for the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition.. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo.