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AUSTRALIA
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, John Stockdale, 1789

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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AUSTRALIA

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, some with tissue guards), with errata, subscribers' list and advertisement leaf, spotting to title, some offsetting from plate to text but generally clean, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked preserving the original elaborately gilt-tooled spine [Ferguson 47; Hill 1346; Nissen ZBI 3518], 4to, John Stockdale, 1789

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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE TO BOTANY BAY, and a classic work on Australia as a British colony. At Port Jackson, Phillip founded Sydney. Includes fine plates of zoological subjects, and an appendix listing approximately 800 convicts brought to Australia in 1787.

Provenance: Adrian Bullock, Norfolk, bookplate. See illustration overleaf.

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