Item #166802 THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island;. Arthur Phillip.
THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island;
THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island;
THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island;
THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island;
THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island;
THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island;
THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island;

THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island;

compiled from Authentic Papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments, to which are added, the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Captain Marshall; with an Account of their New Discoveries. Embellished with fifty-five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from Actual Surveys, & the plans & views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. Pp. [ii](title page, verso blank)+xxiv(last blank)+258+clxxvi(appendix, last blank)+4(list of subscribers)+[4](list of plates, last blank), engraved frontispiece portrait, title page vignette, and 55 plates or charts (8 folding, including the hand coloured Chart of New Holland in the appendix); demy 4to; rebound in modern (not recent) half tan calf, the spine with gilt lettered red leather title label and 5 small gilt ship motifs between raised bands, brown cloth boards, the spine slightly faded and a trifle rubbed, with a few tiny marks in the lowest compartment; t.e.g.; later marbled endpapers, tiny split at foot of title page, short closed tear to fore-edge margin of Kangooroo plate, neat early repair to longer closed tear from bottom edge into Female Superb Warbler plate, and two early paper reinforcements on reverse of the View of Macaulay's Island, the plates offset (as often), a few leaves faintly creased, some light foxing and occasional slight soiling; printed for John Stockland, Piccadilly, 1790. Second edition. F.90; Wantrup, page 62. *Tipped-in at the end after the list of plates is some related ephemera: an excerpt from The Hour Glass Volume I, No. 7, July 1887, comprising the title page (which features a vignette portrait of Phillip) and an article by G. Byng Gattie entitled The Founder of Sydney, plus a newscutting dated by hand 1888. 'Many commentators consider the second quarto edition superior to the first, not only because it includes as an appendix a reprinting of Stockdale's earlier, pre-settlement History of New Holland with a Discourse on Banishment with a separate title-page and with a folding, hand-coloured 'Chart of New Holland', but also because the text has been rearranged more logically and improved in parts' [Wantrup]. Item #166802

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