Tuckey, James Kingston

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait, on the south coast of New South Wales. London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1805
paper

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (208 x 126mm.), xvi, 239pp., [i p. adverts], half-title, contemporary speckled calf, flat gilt spine, black label

Provenance

George Grote, historian and politician, bookplate

Literature

Ferguson 418; Hill (2004) 1723; Wantrup 22

Catalogue Note

Tuckey was commander of the Calcutta transporting David Collins's expedition to found a new settlement in southern Australia. He surveyed the Port Phillip bay area and as a result was instrumental in the establishment of Hobart.