Author: DAVIS, JOHN; [ WESTGARTH, WILLIAN; Edited by].
Title: Tracks Of McKinlay And Party Across Australia. Edited from Mr Davis's Manuscript Journal; with an introductory view of the recent Australian explorations of McDouall Stuart, Burke and Wills, Landsborough, etc., by William Westgarth.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xvi, 408, 16 (book advertisements); colour frontispiece and 13 other coloured tinted lithograph full page plates, 1 text wood engraving, index, lacks the folding map, bound in half brown leather with brown cloth boards, raised bands, title labels, title lettered in gilt on label, nice provenance being the Dr. George Mackaness copy being item 392 in his number one catalogue of 1967 with his bookplate on the front endpaper, some foxing to first and last few pages, occasional foxing throughout, good copy (lacking the folding map). London; Sampson Low, Son, & Co.; 1863.

Keywords: Australian local history South Australia exploration discovery travel Northern Territory Queensland