The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R. N.

Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt cover vignette and spine lettering gilt. xviii + 492 pp. Illustrated with portraits, views, facsimile documents and 8 maps & charts. Book plate on front pastedown; hinges started, but firm; extremities rubbed, and crease in rear board cloth; but otherwise a nice, tight bright interior with occasional pencil scoring and annotation, and addition, by previous owner, of small portrait of Sir Flinders Petrie, grandson of the famous explorer, on p.401.