John Whites resa till Nya Holland, åren 1787 och 1788.

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I sammandrag af Samuel Ödmann . Upsala [i.e. Uppsala] : J. Edmans Enka, 1793. Octavo, contemporary half-calf over papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and contrasting title-piece lettered in gilt (the leather a little dry and worn); pp. XII, 147, [1], illustrated with 4 engraved plates; front pastedown with early ownership inscription in pencil, front free-endpaper with later name in pen; title-page with pale water stain, scattered light foxing and occasional underlining in pencil; [BOUND WITH] [HYNES, John]. Berättelse om ängelska skeppets Grosvenors strandning på Africas östra kust, samt besättningens vandring genom landets inre öknar till Capska nybygget, år 1782. Från tyskan, förkortad. Upsala : J. F. Edman, 1794. pp. [8], 86, [1]; some light foxing, last few leaves with pale water stain. First Swedish translations albeit abridged of both works. The translator was Samuel Ödmann (1750-1829). The more significant of the two is of course the First Fleet account of John White, the newly appointed first Surgeon-General of New South Wales, which also includes a summary of Cook, Extracts from Captain James Cook s Journal, kept during his Voyage on the Coast of New Holland, in the year 1770 (pp. 115-147). The second is the narrative of John Hynes describing the miserable fate of the passengers and crew of the East Indiaman Grosvenor , shipwrecked off the Pondoland coast of southern Africa in 1782 en route to England from Trincomalee in Ceylon.

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