The Voyage of Governor Philip to Botany Bay (First Trade Edition)

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PHILLIP, Arthur. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson Norfolk Island... London: John Stockdale, 1789 (MDCCLXXXIX). 4to. Full later tan calf. Gilt margins to covers. Spine with gilt and blind tooling, lettered in gilt on red morocco panel. Dentelles tooled in blind. [iv], 6, [i], viii, [xii], x, 298, lxxiv pp. 55 plates (33 with colouring — see note below); 7 folding maps. First edition. Ferguson 59. Full title: The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; 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 Lieutenants Shortland, Watts, Ball, Captain Marshall; with an Account of their New Discoveries. On 26 January 1788, Arthur Phillip sailed the First Fleet into Port Jackson, planted a flag on the shore of what would become Sydney Cove, and took formal possession of the territory in the name of the Crown. Eight months later, a ship carrying despatches and journals left the Colony for England. From that material, together with accounts drawn from other officers and compiled under Phillip's authority, John Stockdale produced this volume in 1789, within a year of the landing. It is the first of five accounts collectively known as the First Fleet Journals, the foundational documentary record of Australian colonial settlement. The work is of extraordi

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