Description

• First Edition [T&W Boone, London, 1846]; [2 blank, 2 adverts, 2 blank], [ii, inc title page], x, 361, [3 blank], 8 Publisher’s ads pages, fold-out map pasted to rear endpaper; full Moroccan leather, gold titling on spine, 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers, a near-fine copy
• Scarce early piece of South Australiana beautifully rebound by Bayntun-Riviere & with significant provenance
• With five full-page landscape plates & map of Rivoli Bay
• With signature of newspaper proprietor John Fairfax [link to entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography] atop page advertisement for J. Lort Stokes’ Discoveries In Australia as leading preliminary leaf – not mentioned in Ferguson’s entry [4267]
• Also tipped in slip between pages x and 1 for Eyre’s Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia
• Large fold-out map [South Australia Shewing The Division Into Counties… – Arrowsmith, 1844] rebacked in heavy cloth and pasted onto rear free endpaper [Ferguson notes SLSA copy with map in pocket insert], often missing, some stains and nibbling but very good condition on the whole and very sturdy due to rebacking
• PROVENANCE: From Fairfax, then through the Goyder family by descent