Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1259
  • 1259

Tench, Watkin

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales. London: G. Nicol, 1793
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (270 x 207mm.), [xvi], 212pp., folding engraved map, contemporary tree calf, full gilt spine, red morocco label 

Provenance

Charles R.J. Glover, bookplate; Wantrup, book label

Literature

Ferguson 171; Wantrup 16

Catalogue Note

A FINE COPY of "an accurate, well-written and acutely observed account of the earliest years of Australia's colonization" (Wantrup).