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Macgillivray John - Narrative Of The Voyage of H M S Rattlesnake (Vol II)
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Realised: $210 plus premium
Lot Details
Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, During The Years 1846 to 1850, Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade Archipelago, etc. To Which Is Added The Account Of Mr E. B. Kennedy's Expedition For The Exploration Of The Cape York Peninsula, T. & W Boone, London, Vol II, 1852, illus including frontis of Natives of Redscar Bay, New Guinea, coloured litho of a Funeral Screen, Mount Ernest, Torres Strait, woodcut in the text at page 47 of Interior of Darnley Island Hut, 4 further plates of shells, insects and crab (lacking chart), iv, (2), 395pp, later green cloth, ex library.
