Australia rare books

7 volumes bound in 6, 4to, additional engraved pictorial title, 40 Tallis maps, 7 portrait frontispieces, 24 engraved portraits, 7 engraved views, contemporary polished calf gilt extra, a choice set, clean and fresh.

First edition, number 9 of 100 specially bound copies, from an overall limitation of 750; folio (310 x 190 mm.); printed in dark green throughout, wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette, 6 chapter headings and device, all by John Buckland-Wright, one full-page map of the east coast of Australia; full green morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edge gilt, others uncut, spine very slightly lightened, but otherwise an excellent copy; housed in original cloth slip-case, lightly marked.