An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales,

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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. By Lieutenant-Colonel Collins, of the Royal Marines; several years Judge Advocate and Secretary of the Colony, and now Lieutenant-Governor of Port Phillip. Illustrated by numerous engravings. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. Second edition. Quarto (270 x 215 mm), contemporary calf, rebacked; front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Ord; pp. xvii, [3], 562, [2 publisher s advertisements]; frontispiece portrait, 23 engraved plates (including 3 natural history plates with hand colouring), map, folding chart, and 8 text illustrations; frontispiece foxed, title with off-setting; occasional spotting, the non-coloured plates generally very good (a few with light foxing); of the coloured plates, the Lyrebird has some minor foxing, the Wombat has a small surface mark, and the Mountain Eagle some light off-setting; loosely enclosed are an early nineteenth-century owner s notes in manuscript (ink and pencil) pertaining to this volume, filling four sides of an octavo bifolium,

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