A LETTER FROM THE SOUTH SEAS:
by a voyage on the 'Daedalus,' 1792. Introduced and annotated by John Earnshaw. Pp. [44](last colophon, blank), title page vignette and text decorations printed in blue; light blue cloth, edges lightly faded, top fore-corners slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip faintly faded; endpapers slightly offset, top edges of leaves a trifle foxed, a few corners faintly creased; Talkarra Press, Sydney, 1957. First edition, limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed by the publisher, Walter Stone, and with his extra inscription to bookseller Harry Hodges. Farmer p. 64. *The fourth book from Walter Stone's Talkarra Press. The text is an unsigned and incomplete letter, half in verse and half in prose, written on board the Daedalus, the store-ship for the Vancouver expedition, during a voyage from California, to New South Wales in 1792-3. The manuscript is in the Mitchell Library. In the introduction, John Earnshaw suggests that the letter writer was William House, former boatswain of H.M.S. Discovery. Item #122339
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