South Australia No. 19.
First edition. Very large map, 3 folding charts & diagrams, & 24 photographic illustrations. Folio. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, extremities worn, some chips to edges, paper label with ms. title to upper board. 32pp. Adelaide, Bristow, Govt. Printer, 1896.
This blue book edition of Winnecke was published the year before the publicly offered version. A note on the verso of the title explains that 650 copies were printed at a total cost of over £170. The objectives of the expedition, unlike those that preceeded it, were purely geological and ethnographical, rather than exploratory. In that respect, as noted by Wantrup, it was the precursor of a new era of exploration. The party was entirely financed by a wealthy philanthopist W.A. Horn and its declared aims were the “examination of the country from Oodnadatta to the Macdonnell Ranges… [and] the securing of photographs of the aborigines in their primitive state…”
