Mitchell margaret

1848 · PTCurMIT75 — <p>London: Longman Brown Green And Longmans 1848. 1848. 8vo. pp. xiv 1 leaf 437 1 2ads 32p. publisher's catalogue. 7 maps 4 folding lithographed frontis. & 11 other plates incl. 10 tinted lithographs all after sketches by the author. several wood engravings in the text incl. title vignette. untrimmed in original blind-stamped cloth rebacked with original gilt spine mounted & endpapers preserved spine discoloured some generally light foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves. ownership entry of 'George H.Strutt 1849'. First Edition First Issue with 32-page publisher's catalogue dated October 1847 inserted at end. Mitchell set out on his fourth and last expedition undertaken in search of an overland route to Port Essington on the north-west coast in December 1845. Nine months later short of supplies and threatened by aborigines he was forced to turn back near Isisford on the Barcoo River incorrectly referred to as the 'Victoria' mistakenly believing that he had found his long-sought for north-west flowing river. Although the expedition failed in its primary objectives it did accomplish the exploration of vast tracts of previously unknown territory in tropical Queensland. Ferguson 4829. Wantrup 129 & p. 203. F. Hardcover.</p> London: Longman, Brown, Green, And Longmans, 1848. hardcover