BLACKBURN'S ISLE

by Derek Neville

A$60 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

First edition

Pp. 176, 24 plates, several tailpiece illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index; spine slightly canted; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly worn, small puncture to back panel near head of backstrip; top edges of leaves a trifle soiled; Terence Dalton Limited, Lavenham, Suffolk, 1975. First edition. *David Blackburn, of Norfolk Island descent, was Master of H.M.S. Armed Tender Supplywhen it joined the fleet to sail from Portsmouth to Botany Bay in 1787. A small isle off

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