Item #116690 RECENT JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION ACROSS THE CONTINENT OF AUSTRALIA; its deserts, native races, and natural history. Jess Young.

RECENT JOURNEY OF EXPLORATION ACROSS THE CONTINENT OF AUSTRALIA; its deserts, native races, and natural history.

With an Introduction by Annette Potts. Pp. 54(last advertisement), frontispiece portrait plus 2 full page and 1 double page illustration, double page map, corrigenda slip tipped-in at contents page, bibliography, index; narrow med. 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers, a trifle foxed, edges and backstrip slightly faded; text block browned, a little light foxing; Gaston Renard Publisher, Melbourne, 1978. Edition limited to 230 copies (200 for sale); this being No. xix of the 30 copies not for sale. *Originally published in the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society in 1878. Jess Young was a member of the fourth expedition led by Ernest Giles, in 1875. During the expedition, Young collected specimens of several new plant species. Item #116690

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