PHILLIP (ARTHUR)


The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece portrait, title with engraved vignette, 53 plates and maps (5 folding, one double-page, one plate cut to size and laid down, short tear closed to 2 plates, stain to one map), with errata, subscribers' list and advertisement leaf, some off-setting from plates to text, contemporary maroon morocco gilt, gilt-tooled dentelles, g.e., extremities of spine rubbed [Ferguson 47; Hill 1346; Nissen ZBI 3518; Wantrup pp.59-64], 4to (288 x 215mm.), John Stockdale, 1789
|FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE TO BOTANY BAY, compiled from the official reports of Governor Phillip. It provided a full account the expedition to New South Wales and of the foundation of the colony, and the plates include many zoological subjects. An appendix lists approximately 800 convicts brought to Australia in 1787.Provenance: Louisa ?Herring, June 1814, inscription on blank verso of portrait.