73819 Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2005. Quarto, 574 pages with 26 illustrations and a map plus a frontispiece portrait, 12 colour plates and a large folding map (Flinders' 1804 map of Australia) in an endpocket. Gilt-decorated cloth; mint. The first published transcription of the private journal kept by Flinders 'from the first day of his detention at Isle of France (Mauritius) in December 1803 and continues after his return to England in 1810. The final entry is dated 10 July 1814, nine days before his death. It has previously appeared as a facsimile of the handwritten original held by the Mitchell Library ... The present volume is edited by Anthony J. Brown and Gillian Dooley [both published Flinders scholars] ... It also contains eight appendices, an introduction and notes by the editors and an index'. This trade edition is limited to 700 copies; 150 numbered copies of the quarter leather deluxe edition sold out on publication. The facsimile edition of the manuscript published in 1986 was limited to 550 copies and was made available only in conjunction with the deluxe edition of Ingleton's biography at a then whopping $890. $130.00AUD
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