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• Auction House:
  Leski Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Colonial
• Sale Date:
  15 Jul 2018 ~ 12noon (AEST)
• Lot #:
  265
• Lot Description:
  STOKES, J. 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. [T & W Boone, London, 1846] Hardcover. First Edition. In two volumes. xii, 521pp; viii, 543pp. Ex Library set with most maps non-original, one plate non-original, foxing an other faults. A good "user" copy.
• Notes:
  The third surveying voyage of the BEAGLE, during which the North-West and Western Coasts of Australia, also Bass Strait, Port Essington, the Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait, etc., were surveyed. Stokes was Lieutenant under Commander Wickham, but succeeded to the command when Wickham was invalided home. Sir George (then Lieutenant) Grey came out from Plymouth with the expedition, and he and his party were landed at Hanover Bay, W.A., to commence his first Western Australian expedition.
• Estimate:
  A$500 - 750
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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