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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Geoffrey Stillwell AM Collection
• Sale Date:
  22 Nov 2015 ~ 2.30pm
• Lot #:
  241
• Lot Description:
  STOKES, John Lort - 'Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and …
  surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43..... Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.' [T. and W. Boone, London, 1846]; 1st ed. Two volumes, octavo, with 26 engraved plates (including frontispieces) and 2 folding charts (6 loose charts are absent, as usual), some occasional light spotting in the margins of plates but generally a very good untrimmed set, all of the many advertising pages and slips noted by Wantrup present as per first issue; rebound in blue cloth retaining the gold lettered spines of the original bindings.
• Estimate:
  A$500 - 750
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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