Description
First edition of the important c.18th account of Sydney Cove from the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieutenant 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, portrait of Captain John Hunter and engraved vignette on title page, 5 pp. list of subscribers, 583pp, 17 pl. and maps. Bound in quarter calf, with gilt bands and corners with gilt tooling. Minor spotting to a few pages and plates and maps as usual. The seventeen engraved plates and maps, include, portraits, large folding maps; 1. Territory of New South Wales showing the extent of settlement, 2. Chart of the coast between Botany Bay, Port Jackson, and Broken-Bay, 3. Australia (upside down), View of the Settlement in 1788 is the first engraving of Sydney. Without the usual cropping of the first line of title the title and removal of the date on the title page.
” A valuable work on the early history of the English settlement in Australia ” (Hill). (the first published engraving of Sydney) with William Blake’s engraving of P.G. King’s “A Family of New South Wales”.
References:
Crittenden, V. A Bibliography Of The First Fleet. ACT 1982 : 110.
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 152.
Hill, J. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego 1974 : 857.
Wantrup, J. Australian Rare Books. Sydney, 1987 : 13.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 2280153
National Maritime Museum Greenwich: Object IDPAD4659
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1142189
State Library New South Wales: DSM/Q991/H
State Library Victoria: RARELTF 994.02 H91H
