Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott & Co. and Bell and Daldy, 1867.
Price: $3,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with woodcuts from Harden S. Melville's own drawings. Publisher's blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt. Coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Contemporary gift inscription, slight chipping at the crown, hinges cracked in a couple of places but holding, a good or better copy of an uncommon third person travel narrative. Melville's adventures as draughtsman on the HMS *Fly* as it conducted the first official hydrographic survey of the northeast coast of Australia in 1842-1846, with extensive illustrations of Australia. A modestly flawed but handsome copy of an uncommon title.
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