The narrative of a voyage of discovery performed in His Majesty’s vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales.

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Including Remarks on the Cape de Verd Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the hitherto Unknown Parts of New Holland, discovered by him in his Passage (the first ever attempted from Europe) through the Streight separating that Island from the Land discovered by Van Dieman: Together with Various Details of his Interviews with the Natives of New South Wales; Observations on the Soil, Natural Productions, c. not known or very slightly treated of by former Navigators; with his Voyage home in the Brig Anna Josepha round Cape Horn; and an Account of the Present State of Falkland Islands… The whole illustrated with elegant engravings. London : Printed by C. Roworth, Bell Yard, Fleet Street, for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1803. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), contemporary speckled calf (boards a little scuffed), spine in compartments with gilt decoration and with a contrasting leather title label lettered in gilt (expertly rebacked); front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Vice-Admiral Lord Gardner (Alan Hyde Gardner, 2nd Baron Gardner, 1770-1815), and the title with his ownership inscription Lord Gardner, Sept. 9th 1811 ; pp. [4], [2 List of the encouragers of this work ], [8], [v]-xxvi, [2 blank], [1]-195, [1 blank]; with the large folding frontispiece plate A Sketch of Two Boats a Cutter with Sliding Keels (some offsetting, short closed tear to verso at edge of one of the folds), folding chart coloured in outline Chart of the N. W. Parts of Bass s Straits , coloured plate of the Fr

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