BEAUVOIR, Ludovic, Marquis de Australie. Voyage autour du monde... Deuxième édition... Paris, Henri Plon, 1869
Octavo, with two original photographs and two large folding maps; a good copy in contemporary quarter morocco.
Second edition and scarce, illustrated with original photographs of Aborigines.
The Marquis de Beauvoir arrived in Melbourne in 1866, and toured in Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales, before heading for Malaya by way of the Barrier Reef and Torres Strait. He includes particularly good material on the Victorian goldfields, especially around Ballarat and Bendigo.
Ferguson, 6839.
$A950
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