An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales :

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With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. [Together with] An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales from its first Settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand; compiled, by permission, from the Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King; and an account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr Bass; by which the existence of a Strait separating Van Diemen’s Land from the continent of New Holland was ascertained. Abstracted from the Journal of Mr Bass. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798 1802. First editions. Two volumes, quarto, finely bound in full polished calf with armorial crest of John Frederic Campbell, 1st Earl of Cawdor to upper and lower boards, ruled in gilt; spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting morocco title labels, ruled and lettered in gilt, dates of 1798 and 1802 in Roman numerals at foot of spines; expertly rebacked preserving original spines; first volume with cracked upper joint (the cords are sound), a few scuff marks; marbled endpapers, bound without the half-titles. Vol. I map frontispiece, pp. xx, xl, 617, [2 list of engravings]; 18 full-page engraved plates, large folding chart, four vignette engravings; Vol. II frontispiece engraving, pp. xvi, map, 336, 3 full-page engraved plates with hand colouring, one monochrome plate; f

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