The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

A$6,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries . London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, full tree calf, rebacked preserving the original spine, head and tail caps renewed), joints cracked, armorial bookplate of the Earl of Annesley to front pastedown, frontispiece portrait; engraved title (in the second state, with the name of the artist Henry Webber removed, at the request of Josiah Wedgwood); pp. 6, [errata]; [blank], viii, [8 list of subscribers, a couple of tears with paper repairs], [3 list of plates; blank], x, 298, lxxiv, 54 engraved plates charts, bound with the advertisements (often lacking); page 122 mis-numbered 221 (before correction), early state of the Kangooroo plate at p. 106 (before the change in spelling to Kanguroo ) occasional offsetting as usual but largely clean internally, a very good copy. Published in London the year following the successful arrival of the First Fleet in New Holland, Stockdale s work is the most detailed early account of the arduous voyage and is considered the foundation book of Australian settlement. Compiled, with an editor s literary flourish, from Phillip s official reports, as well as the journals of other officers in the First Fleet, this account describes the voyage from England an

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