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Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1993 [facsimile edition]/ 1902. Quarto, 62 pages with 4 illustrations plus a very large folding map tipped-in to the inside rear cover. Saddle-stapled pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed; endpapers browned; an excellent copy.

Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Carlisle, Hesperian Press, 1993 [facsimile edition]/ 1902. Quarto, 62 pages with 4 illustrations plus a very large folding map tipped-in to the inside rear cover. Saddle-stapled pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed; endpapers browned; an excellent copy.

Perth: Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Perth, Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902. Foolscap folio, 62 pages with 4 illustrations plus a very large folding map (625 × 865 mm). Stapled as issued (without wrappers); minimal reinforcement to the map near the (rusty) staples; trifling signs of handling; an excellent copy. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells, third in command on the ill-fated Elder expedition of 1891-92, was leader. The party set out from Mullewa, east of Geraldton, on 13 June 1896; lack of water and the gruelling conditions brought the official expedition to an end on 6 November at Noonkanbah Station on the Fitzroy River, with two men unaccounted for. It was not until late May of the following year that Wells located the bodies of… Read More

Perth: Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Perth, Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902. Foolscap folio, 62 pages with 4 illustrations plus a very large folding map (625 × 865 mm). Title-wrappers, relatively recently bound in half calf and cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine; title leaf slightly marked, with trifling loss to the bottom corner-tip; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells, third in command on the ill-fated Elder expedition of 1891-92, was leader. The party set out from Mullewa, east of Geraldton, on 13 June 1896; lack of water and the gruelling conditions brought the official expedition to an end on 6 November at Noonkanbah Station on the Fitzroy River, with two men unaccounted for. It was… Read More