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 (In a Special Deluxe Binding); Lge. 4to; pp. [ii], [iv], 6, [iv] list of plates, viii (advertisements), [viii] list of subscribers, x, 298, lxxiv (appendix), [ii] advertisement; portrait frontispiece, 55 plates including a number of fold out charts, bound in half leather with cream cloth boards, raised bands title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt decoration to spine and boards, top edge gilt, very good copy. Melbourne; Georgian House; 1950. Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies, this being number 890. One of the cornerstones of any collection of Australiana.

Keywords: Australian history New South Wales Australia discovery exploration Arthur Phillip