An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers.

HUNTER, John.

Published by John Stockdale, Piccadilly., LONDON, 1793

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Including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the first Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792. Quarto.[31cm. x 25cm.] Portrait [Captain John Hunter] Engraved Vignette Title, 5p List of Subsribers, [1] [10] 583pp, [1] Complete Copy with the Seventeen Plates, including Engraved Portrait, Vignette, Folding Engraved Map of New South Wales [small fold tear] Folding Chart of Botany Bay, Port Jackson, and Broken-Bay with the Coast and Soundings. View of the Settlement on Sydney Cove, Port Jackson. " A valuable work on the early history of the English settlement in Australia " (Hill). Plates include the "View of the Settlement at Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, 20th August 1788" (the first published engraving of Sydney) with William Blake's engraving of P.G. King's "A Family of New South Wales". Hill 857, Ferguson 152. CONTEMPORARY FULL TREE CALF BINDING, Original Black leather gilt title label gilt ruled gilt design spine, [small wear] gilt edge rule, pale blue speckled foredges. internally crisp copy with only occasional light spotting. RARE COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING, ORIGINAL STATE. Seller Inventory # 576

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Title: An Historical Journal of the Transactions at...

Publisher: John Stockdale, Piccadilly., LONDON

Publication Date: 1793

Edition: First Edition