The Letters of F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt (3 Volumes)
Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1967-1968. Collected and newly translated by M. Aurousseau. 3 volumes 8vo, blue cloth boards with gilt decoration, pp xvi, 423; vi, 425-819; vi, 821-1175. Maps plus a folding map to volume II. Vol I published 1967, vols II and III 1968. Vol III lacks dustwrapper. Dustwrappers slightly chipped, two closed tears have been repaired internally. Very good in good dustjackets.
Ludwig Leichhardt is chiefly known as the most important of the scientific explorers of Australia. His lively but detailed letters provide a narrative of his life from student days in the mid-1830s until 1848 when he disappeared in the Australian interior. Item #87878
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