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The Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition (Australia, 1896).

Name: The Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition (Australia, 1896).
Author: Hill, J. G. (compiler).

Book Description

First edition. Small 4to. pp. viii, 44; map frontis., one large folding map; heavy browning to endpapers, else very good in the original red cloth, gilt, corners bumped.

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This record of the Australian expedition was compiled by Hill from telegraphic and newspaper reports. Lawrence Wells led the 7-man expedition, which was financed by the London mining engineer Albert Calvert. The expedition planned to continue the work of the Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition of 1891-2, in which Wells had also participated, by exploring the unmapped desert regions of Australia. The expedition suffered due to the hostile conditions, losing two men who had undertaken a subsidiary reconnaissance.

Author Hill, J. G. (compiler).

Date 1905

Binding Original cloth

Publisher London: George Philip; Liverpool: Philip, Son & Nephew

Condition See description

Pages pp. viii, 44

Price: £275.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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