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TENCH, Watkin. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay; with an Account of New South Wales, its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined, a List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port-Jackson. New York: Re-printed by T. & J. Swords, 1789.
12o (162 x 102 mm). Publisher's advertisement leaf at front. (Some occasional pale spotting.) Later floral wrappers.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, published the same year as the London first edition. Tench's is one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the first permanent British colony established in Australia (1787). See previous lot. The first American edition is VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, no copies have sold in at least 30 years. Evans 22176.
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, published the same year as the London first edition. Tench's is one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the first permanent British colony established in Australia (1787). See previous lot. The first American edition is VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, no copies have sold in at least 30 years. Evans 22176.