Title: The Friend of Australia; Or, A Plan for Exploring the Interior and for Carrying On a Survey of the Whole Continent of Australia Author: [Maslen, T[homas] J.] "A Retired Officer" Place: London Publisher: Hurst, Chance, and Co. Date: 1830 Description: xxiv, 428 pp. 16 page publisher's catalogue, dated January, 1830, inserted at front. Large folding map; five hand-colored plates. (8vo) 22.5x14.2 cm. (8¾x5½") original green cloth, paper spine label. First Edition. First Edition of the most important of the proposals for the exploration of the still entirely unknown Australian interior, written by a retired Office of the Hon. East India Company's Service who never visited the continent. Printed in an edition of only 250 copies. 'The supreme monument to the speculative geography of the 1820s and 1830s is... [a] very scarce volume written in 1827 and published anonymously in London in 1830... Maslen's work is an extensive octavo volume of over 400 page, illustrated with five quaint hand-coloured aquatint plates [sic., actually lithographs] illustrating the conduct of his proposed exploring expedition, a plan for the design of proposed townships and a new flag for New South Wales. Perhaps the glory of the work is Maslen's large folding map of the Australian continent as he would have liked it to be, with a vast inland sea and a 'Great River' whose delta enters the sea on the north coast' (Wantrup pp.192-193). Abbey Travel II, 574; Ferguson I,1379; Wantrup 117a. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper (George Ellwanger?), wax seal with initial 'N' at head of page (1). Rare. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine head chipped, cloth splitting along joints, some spotting to cloth, hinges cracking, catalogue partially detached, lacking rear free endpaper; short stub tear (approx. ½") to map; erasure on title page; very good. Item number: 222364
Title: The Friend of Australia; Or, A Plan for Exploring the Interior and for Carrying On a Survey of the Whole Continent of Australia Author: [Maslen, T[homas] J.] "A Retired Officer" Place: London Publisher: Hurst, Chance, and Co. Date: 1830 Description: xxiv, 428 pp. 16 page publisher's catalogue, dated January, 1830, inserted at front. Large folding map; five hand-colored plates. (8vo) 22.5x14.2 cm. (8¾x5½") original green cloth, paper spine label. First Edition. First Edition of the most important of the proposals for the exploration of the still entirely unknown Australian interior, written by a retired Office of the Hon. East India Company's Service who never visited the continent. Printed in an edition of only 250 copies. 'The supreme monument to the speculative geography of the 1820s and 1830s is... [a] very scarce volume written in 1827 and published anonymously in London in 1830... Maslen's work is an extensive octavo volume of over 400 page, illustrated with five quaint hand-coloured aquatint plates [sic., actually lithographs] illustrating the conduct of his proposed exploring expedition, a plan for the design of proposed townships and a new flag for New South Wales. Perhaps the glory of the work is Maslen's large folding map of the Australian continent as he would have liked it to be, with a vast inland sea and a 'Great River' whose delta enters the sea on the north coast' (Wantrup pp.192-193). Abbey Travel II, 574; Ferguson I,1379; Wantrup 117a. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper (George Ellwanger?), wax seal with initial 'N' at head of page (1). Rare. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine head chipped, cloth splitting along joints, some spotting to cloth, hinges cracking, catalogue partially detached, lacking rear free endpaper; short stub tear (approx. ½") to map; erasure on title page; very good. Item number: 222364
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