FIRST EDITION, 4 volumes, 4to (257 x 190mm.), half-titles, (vol.1, Narrative) large folding map, 17 photographic illustrations on 11 plates; (vol.2, Zoology) errata slip, 29 lithographed plates, 11 coloured; (vol.3, Geology and Botany) 9 plates; (vol.4, Anthropology) 20 plates, 4 coloured, 11 photographic, (total: folding map, 69 plates), original dark blue cloth, bindings lightly rubbed at extremities, tape residue to spines

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The most comprehensive scientific record of the natural history and geology of Australia published in the nineteenth century. Its sponsor, William Austin Horn, was a mining tycoon who accompanied the early part of the expedition.