Mirror of the Australian Navigation
Sydney: Hordern House, 1999. Fine. Quarto, 32pp, (16), 1-64, (4) map, 65-72, (4) map, (2), 64pp, (2); hand bound in quarter alum tawed goatskin with marbled paper sides designed by Margo Snape. Fine. Item #450
Published by Hordern House for the Austraian Maritime Museum. Australian Maritime Series Number Five. A facsimile of the 'Spieghel der Australische Navigatie...' Being an account of the voyage of Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten 1615-1616 published in Amsterdam in 1622. With an introductory essay by by Edward Duyker New South Wales Histroy Fellow and English text by Alexander Dalrymple. Limited to 950 copies, with 900 in the quater goatskin and a deluxe edition of 50 copies hand bound in quarter natural vellum and signed by Edward Duyker.
Price: $250.00