The Red Centre : Man And Beast In The Heart Of Australia Finlayson, H. H. Australia

Lacking one plate leaf, with loss of the 2 illustrations facing pages 70 and 71 "The Method of carrying Heavy Game in to Camp" and "Foliage and Ripe Fruit of the Native Fig". Otherwise good. Previous owner's name. Some foxing. Folding map small 25mm tear along one fold. Chips and tears to dust-jacket. 30mm missing at tail of dust-jacket. Rear flap of dust-jacket detached, and reattached with adhesive tape. Piece of adhesive tape at head of dust-jacket spine on reverse side. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1952 "New Edition" of a title first published in 1935. xiv, 125, [3 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 49 of 51 illustrations on 25 of 26 plate leaves. "This is a new editon of 'The Red Centre' which, at its first publication, proved to be one of the most interesting and informative book ever written about Australia, and which takes its place as an authoritative work on the geographical features, native inhabitants, and animals of the particular region with which it is concerned - south-western Central Australia. [. . .] The chapters dealing with the animal life of the region provide some of the most interesting reading in the book. As Honorary Curator of Mammals in the South Australian Museum Mr Finlayson is an authority on the fauna of the Centre." - from dust-jacket blurb. Folding map is titled "Map of the South Western portion of Central Australia : Compiled from existing maps of the early Explorers, of Official Surveys, and of Chewings, Madigan, Terry and Mackay, by H. H. Finlayson with additional data along the Author's Travelling Routes. 1931-1935." With a 2 page Foreword by Frederick Wood Jones.