A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO BOTANY BAY; with an Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c.
To which is subjoined, A List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson. Third Edition, to which is now first added, A Postscript, dated Sydney Cove, October 1, 1788. By Captain Watkin Tench of the Marines. Pp. viii+[iv](contents, blank)+148; post 8vo; bound in later half calf, lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, slightly bowed, edges and spine a trifle rubbed; later endpapers and binder's blanks, name and date (1806) in ink at head of title page, light water stains to top edge of a few leaves, stab holes sometimes visible, a little light soiling; printed for J. Debrett, London, 1789. Third edition. F.50. *'The earliest authentic account of the colony' [Wantrup, page 54]. Three editions were printed in 1789. The Postscript to the third edition gives a brief account of the early progress of the settlement: 'All descriptions of men enjoy the highest state of health; and the convicts continue to behave extremely well. A gang of one hundred of them, guarded by a captain, two subalterns, and 20 marines, is about to be sent up to the head of the harbour, at the distance of 3 leagues, in a westerly direction, from Sydney Cove, for the purpose of establishing a settlement there' [Wantrup, page 148]. Item #166861
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