Author: GRANT, JAMES.
Title: The Narrative Of A Voyage Of Discovery, Performed In His Majesty's Vessel the Lady Nelson, Of Sixty Tons Burthen, With Sliding Keels, In The Years 1800, 1801, And 1802, To New South Wales. Including Remarks on the Cape De Verd Islands, Cape Of Good Hope, the hitherto Unknown Parts of New Holland, discovered by him in his Passage (the first ever attempted from Europe) through the Streight separating that Island from the Land discovered by Van Dieman: Together With Various Details of his Interviews with the Natives of New South Wales; Obfervations on the Soil, Natural Productions, &c. not known or very slightly treated of by former Navigators; with his Voyage home in the Brig Anna Josepha round Cape Horn; and a Account of the Present State of Falkland Islands.
Description: Facsimile edition; 4to; pp. (ii), (xii), v-xxvi, 195; large folding frontispiece (A Sketch of the Noats & a Cutter with Sliding Keels,.), 1 full-page colour illustrations, 4 b/w. full-page illustrations, 1 folding colour map, ( The Southern Part of New Holland), appendix; original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, bookplate on front endpaper, small tear to margin of folding sketch, otherwise a very good copy. (Melbourne, Heritage Publications, n.d). Includes remarks

Keywords: die Australian discovery & exploration maritime new south wales history local