LEICHHARDT. MANN, John Frederick. EIGHT MONTHS WITH DR. LEICHHARDT, IN THE YEARS 1846 – 47.

LEICHHARDT. MANN, John Frederick. EIGHT MONTHS WITH DR. LEICHHARDT, IN THE YEARS 1846 – 47. Octavo, with frontispiece, fine in original wrappers, loosely inserted in morocco bookform box, Geoffrey Farmer’s copy with his bookplate. Sydney, Turner and Henderson, 1888. First edition and extremely scarce: a critical account of Leichhardt’s failed second expedition. This copy is the first issue, without the subsequent four-page appendix. Signed by the pastoralist J. Bagot: Sir John Forrest often related how Mr. John Bagot was the first white man he met after leaving Western Australia on his travels in 1874 to the Overland Telegraph line. “Mr. Bagot gave me what I consider still to have been the finest dinner I ever had in