Author: PHILLIP, ARTHUR.
Title: 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 Lieut. Shortland, Witts, Ball, & Capt. 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, Lieut's Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall.
Description: Facsimile Edition; 4to; pp. (vi), xxii, 298, lxxiv; portrait frontispiece, 54 b/w plates, errata, appendix; quarter leather bound with patterned boards, title lettered in gilt on spine; fine copy. Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1968. A facsimile of the 1789 edition, from the Australiana Facsimile Editions, No. 185. Appendix tables list the routes of vessels in fleet with weather remarks. Folding charts include Norfolk Island, Port Jackson, discoveries of Mr. Shortland, a chart of the track of the Zscarborough and her voyage home towards China, Appendix Passengers list includes John Bingham and Elizabeth Bingham.

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