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Phillip, Arthur.
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description
- The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island... to which are added the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball and Capt. Marshall with an account of their new discoveries. London: for John Stockdale, 1789
first edition, first issue, 4to (280 x 215mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece, title and 53 plates and maps, some folding or double-page, most with tissue guards, 8pp. list of subscribers, plate list, errata leaf bound after 'Anecdotes', advertisement leaf at end, contemporary mottled calf, sides with gilt greek-key border, flat spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece, other compartments with ship tool, occasional light offsetting, corners, head of spine and joints rubbed
Literature
Ferguson 47; Hill p.233; Wantrup p.59
Catalogue Note
the first official account of the first settlement in australia. Compiled from the official reports of Governor Phillip this work was the first authentic and official account of the expedition to New South Wales and of the foundation of the colony. The work includes detailed descriptions of the birds and animals and of tentative explorations, as well as the earliest engraved view of the colony. The plate of the Vulpine Opossum is spelt 'Wulpine', indicating the first issue.