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

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Lot 1260
  • 1260

Tench, Watkin

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Description

  • A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay; with an Account of New South Wales. London: J. Debrett, 1789
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (210 x 120mm.), viii, [iv], 146pp., [ii pp. adverts], half-title, contemporary speckled calf, red morocco label

Literature

Ferguson 48; Hill (2004) 1685; Wantrup 2

Catalogue Note

AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY of "this eminently readable book [which] is regarded by many authorities as the most accurate, orderly, vivacious, and valuable description of life in the colony in its first years" (Hill).