Commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwell in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago during the Years 1842-1846: together with an Excursion into the interior...of Java, 2 vol., first edition, aquatint frontispieces and 17 plates, 2 folding engraved maps, wood-engraved illustrations, some spotting and offsetting, contemporary prize-binding of red calf, gilt, sympathetically rebacked in modern calf, [Ferguson 4549; Hill 901], 8vo, 1847. *** A good set of this 'very important voyage' (Hill). 'The Admiralty decided in 1841 to have the Great Barrier Reefs explored and to have the gaps surveyed...The expedition was noteworthy for being the first to be dispatched to Australia on a purely surveying mission' (Ingleton, Charting a Continent).
Commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwell in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago during the Years 1842-1846: together with an Excursion into the interior...of Java, 2 vol., first edition, aquatint frontispieces and 17 plates, 2 folding engraved maps, wood-engraved illustrations, some spotting and offsetting, contemporary prize-binding of red calf, gilt, sympathetically rebacked in modern calf, [Ferguson 4549; Hill 901], 8vo, 1847. *** A good set of this 'very important voyage' (Hill). 'The Admiralty decided in 1841 to have the Great Barrier Reefs explored and to have the gaps surveyed...The expedition was noteworthy for being the first to be dispatched to Australia on a purely surveying mission' (Ingleton, Charting a Continent).
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