THREE EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA (Presentation copy)

With descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix,

And of the present colony of new South Wales

First edition: 2 volumes, I. xxi, 351. II. 405, 16 pages of publisher's catalogue, lithographic frontispieces in each volume (hand coloured in volume I ('Cambo'), lithographic title pages with vignettes (with the imprint of the lithographer Day & Haghe), 49 lithographic plates and maps - some coloured and some folding), many wood-engraved sketches in the text, large folding map of the South East Portion of Australia - the coastline hand coloured in blue and the routes indicated in red - at the end of volume I, half-title page in volume I, book binders ticket on the front paste down end paper in volume 1, original blind-stamped straight-grained cloth, spines gilt titled and decorated, neatly recased - new front free endpaper in volume II, title page in volume I foxed, a number of the other plates are foxed - the coloured plates seem less affected, the text is bright, edges uncut, a good set.

Inscription on the front free endpaper of volume I reads, 'To Sir Charles Brooke Vere Bart. M.P. from the Author.'

The frontispiece and plate 40, The Yarrayne River in volume II have been supplied from the second edition of 1839.

Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, (born June 15, 1792, Craigend, Stirlingshire, Scot.—died Oct. 5, 1855, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia), surveyor general of New South Wales who explored and surveyed widely in Australia. I n 1836 his exploration of land around the Murray River led him to call the area Australia Felix (Happy Australia; later, Victoria state). The area was settled rapidly thereafter. In 1837 Mitchell went on leave to England and wrote Three Expeditions into Eastern Australia (1838) and began a campaign for knighthood (granted in 1839). He also published his Peninsular War battle plans in 1840.
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