Author: COOPER, H. M.
Title: The Unknown Coast. Being the explorations of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. along the shores of South Australia 1802. [Together with ] The Unknown Coast (a Supplement).
Description: Limited First Editions; 4to; pp. (xiv), 174; 50 illustrations (7 charts, 3 f/p. illus.). and xii, 94 (last blank ) iv (47 plates including a number of charts)., indexes; original blue cloth with titles on front boards, very good copies. Adelaide, The Author, 1953 and 1955. Limited editions of 500 copies, of which this is No. 322. and Limited Edition of 200 copies this being No. 39 An important work containing details of Flinders early life, sailing with Bligh, Bass, Tom Thumb to the Investigator and details its explorations includes aborigines, antiscorbutics, Baudin, extract from map by Dutch Zeepaerdt in 1627, fish wears [weirs/traps], aboriginal companion Bongaree, dedication to men lost at Cape Catastrophe and more.

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