Wanderings in the interior of New Guinea
London: Chapman & Hall, 1875. Octavo, original decorated cloth boards, coloured frontis., folding map, pp viii, 283. Clear adhesive tape to spine, corners bumped and rubbed, previous owner's bookplate, occasional marginal pencil note, fair copy of uncommon work.
Captain John Lawson explored New Guinea in the 1870s. (The colour frontispiece shows "Mount Hercules": the author claimed that this peak is 32,783 feet and that he climbed it in a single day.) Ferguson 11492. Item #93152
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