Davis, John. TRACKS OF McKINLAY AND PARTY ACROSS AUSTRALIA. By John Davis, one of the Expedition. Edited from Mr. Davis's Manuscript Journal; with an Introductory View of the Recent Australian Explorations of McDouall Stuart, Burke and Wills, Landsborough, Etc., by William Westgarth. First Edition; pp. xvi, 408, 16(adv., dated June, 1863); large folding map (in pocket), 14 tinted litho. plates, 1 text illust.; (tears in 4 leaves of text and margins of a few plates neatly repaired without loss; map strengthened at folds); a very good, complete copy in the original cloth (rubbed, but quite sound); a very good copy; scarce. London; Sampson Low, Son, & Co.; 1863.
***Ferguson 9005; Wantrup 180. John Davis was a member of McKinlay's South Australian Relief Expedition which journeyed almost to the Gulf of Carpentaria in search of Burke and Wills. The expedition then made for Port Denison on the Queensland coast. The journey is vividly described in Davis's journal and is preceded by a summary of inland exploration, 1858-62, by William Westgarth. #16298
