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Published by Souvenir Press (Australia) Pty. Ltd., South Australia, 1978., 1978
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Folio (31x23.5cm), hardback, 192pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (bumped, several small closed tears, chipped at spine extremities, a bit grubby, lighjt creasing). Some shelf wear, bumped, upper edges spotted and stained. Owner's name penned at free front endpaper (Kenneth Woolfe's copy). Pictures available on request. Full of colour comic strips.
Published by Souvenir Press (Australia) Pty. Ltd., South Australia, 1977
ISBN 10: 0285623036ISBN 13: 9780285623033
Seller: D. A. Horn Books, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "By studying ancient maps - particularly those known as the Dauphin and 'Dieppe' maps - and researching the history of Portuguese navigation from the time of Henry the Navigator.shows that not only was Captain James Cook not the first European to visit AUstralia, he was preceded by more than 200 years. For is it not reasonably that the Portuguese who discovered Timor in the mid-16th century should have found the vast continent a mere 250 miles away, as well? How else to explain the mysterious records of the finding of a wrecked 'Mahogany Ship' on the Western AUstralian coast?" --- Original brown papered boards, lettered silver on spine (22.2 cm height). Two corners slightly tender. Endpapers: Map of Australia. Illustrated dustwrapper, tender joints, marginal tears - now closed. Now protected. Jacket reproduction of the Descelier Map, The John Rylands Collection, Manchester University, designed by Brian Paine. Pp. xxi (i blank verso), 427 including List of Illustrations (8 Plates, 26.1 Line Drawings), Acknowledgements, The Question, Appendix, Chapter Notes, Bibliography, Index of Places and Subjects, Index of Persons.