Hordern, Marsden

Mariners Are Warned, John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1989. Limited Edition one of 1250 copies, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 360, b/w plates, maps, 7 folded b/w maps rear pocket, prev. owner's inscr recto half-title, original cloth boards cocked, creasing and edge wear to d.j., good condn.

The surveying voyages of Stokes in the mid-1800s in which Australia was circumnavigated twice. Stokes was the first naval surveyor to undertake significant inland voyages. Item #95695

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