New Guinea & Polynesia. Discoveries & Surveys in New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands. A cruise in Polynesia and visits to the pearl-shelling stations in Torres Straits of H.M.S. Basilisk.

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London: John Murray 1876. Royal 8vo. Orig. blue cloth with gilt vignette to front cover (lightly flecked and marked). Spine gilt (slightly rubbed). (xx 328 32pp.). With frontispiece 3 full-page plates and 3 maps one of which is col. and fold. ADDED: One additional map not mentioned in table of contents opp. pp.1. Uncut. Ex-lib. copy with discreet stamps on plates. Endpapers lightly toned otherwise a fine and complete copy of the 1st edition. NOTE: An important work. Moresby accurately charted the unknown coast of N.E. New Guinea and it was his reports which led to the annexation of British New Guinea whose seat of government is named after him.