Item #166308 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, John Hunter.
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,
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,
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,
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,

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; 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. Illustrated with seventeen maps, charts, views, & other embellishments, drawn on the spot by Captains Hunter, & Bradley, Lieutenant Davies, & Governor King. Pp. [xviii]+584(last blank), engraved frontispiece portrait and 15 plates (including maps and charts, 2 folding), some with tissue guards, title page vignette, list of subscribers; roy. 4to; early calf boards, slightly marked, with a few small surface grazes, corners reinforced, neatly rebacked, the later calf spine decorated in gilt between raised bands, with gilt lettered maroon leather title label; later (not recent) endpapers, with the armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip Robinson on the upper pastedown, hinges strengthened, two short splits to folds of the first map, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; John Stockdale, London, 1793. First edition. F.152; Wantrup 13. *Contains the earliest pictorial representation of the town of Sydney: the View of the Settlement on Sydney Cove, Port Jackson 20th August, 1788 opposite page 77. Hunter's journal was published shortly before he was commissioned as Governor of New South Wales, and he returned to the colony to assume office in September 1795. The plate of an aboriginal family opposite page 414 was engraved by William Blake, after a sketch by Philip Gidley King. The title page in this copy is well proportioned, with title and date complete (in many copies, the title page is shaved, affecting either the first word of the title or (more often), the date at the foot of the page). Thomas Philip Robinson, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859), was first Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (1818 to 1859) and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1841 to 1844). The list of subscribers to this volume includes another Thomas Robinson, presumably Thomas Philip Robinson's father. That Thomas Robinson, the second Baron Grantham (1738-1786), served as Foreign Secretary between 1782 and 1783. Item #166308

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