An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,

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with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip s Voyage, compiled from the official papers; including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of that ship s company to England in 1792. Illustrated with seventeen maps, charts, views other embellishments, drawn on the spot by Captains Hunter, Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, Governor King . London : John Stockdale, 1793. Quarto, contemporary diced russia, rebacked with new spine, spine in compartments with gilt ornament bling tooling, new endpapers, armorial bookplate to front pastedown of Elizabeth Pitcairn; engraved frontispiece, pp (ii) (engraved title page and blank verso), [vi] (list of subscribers); [ii] (list of plates and blank verso), [viii] contents; 583, with 5 maps and charts (2 large folding) and 10 engraved plates (including the Blake plate at p. 414, A Family of New South Wales ); occasional light scattered foxing, a fine copy with wide margins. Captain John Hunter (1737-1821) arrived in Port Jackson in 1788 as second-in-command of the First Fleet flagship HMS Sirius , and was later to serve as Governor of New South Wales from 1795 to 1800. Hunter was responsible for carrying out the first surveys of the Sydney region, and he visually documented the landscape and natural history of the new colony in numerous sketches, several of which are reproduce

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