75208 Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Blubber Head Press, 1989. Quarto, xx, 334 pages with 41 illustrations and 8 maps plus 32 plates and endpaper and dustwrapper illustrations. Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. One of 600 copies numbered and signed by the author. An important account of Leichhardt's second expedition, aborted at Peak Range in central Queensland; it presents for the first time Leichhardt's journal, as well as that of expedition member Hovenden Hely, and provides an extensive commentary. These are supplemented by '42 contemporary drawings by John Mann (an expeditioner), Conrad Martens and George Fairholme; 33 other illustrations including 27 modern photographs taken along the expedition route (and) 8 maps'. $75.00AUD
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