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First edition of John White’s account of the natural history of the new colony at Sydney Cove, printed for J. Debrett Piccadilly, London.
White was chief surgeon of the colony and a keen naturalist who accompanied Governor Arthur Phillip on two expeditions of exploration. White’s account is one of three c.18th First Fleet Journals and a corner stone of any Australian collection of colonial Australia.
Quarto, with engraved title page dated in Roman numerals MDCCXC (1790)and 65 engraved natural history plates. [18], 299, [36]. The second appendix bound after the title, first issue, with leaves Kk4 and Hh4 uncancelled. Bound in half dark brown Morocco, with raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, Complete with the List of Subscribers and the 4pp. of advertisements for Debrett’s New Publications at the end.
