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PHILLIP (ARTHUR): Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island, FIRST ISSUE title vignette and 'Wulpine' plate, engraved frontispiece portrait (small stain in blank margin), engraved title, errata leaf, advert leaf at the end, list of subscribers, 54 engraved plates and charts, some plates offset onto facing text, 2 charts with corner tears), contemporary tree calf, covers with gilt rope-twist border, spine gilt (rubbed; corners, head and foot spine worn), [Ferguson 47; Wantrup 5], 4to, John Stockdale, London 1789
SUBSCRIBER'S COPY. Bookplate of the Right Hon.John Smyth of Heath Hall, Co. York. Descended from Richard Smyth (born 1594) of Myreshaw, in the Parish of Bradford, John Smyth was a Privy Councillor, a Lord of the Admiralty and of the Treasury and Master of the Mint. Born in 1748 he married Lady Georgina Fitzroy, elder daughter of the third Duke of Grafton. He was M.P. for Pontefract for 25 years and died in 1811
Wantrup pages 63-64 'It offers a full record of events both on land and on sea in the first months of the settlement, detailing the early expeditions of Phillip and the other officers into the interior around Botany Bay and Port Jackson, the earliest costal voyages of discovery...most interesting and famous of the charts is the earliest plan of the settlement at Sydney Cove...A detailed and officially sanctioned account of the new colony, the first edition of Stockdale's Phillip is a key work and essential to any serious collection of Australian books'.
SUBSCRIBER'S COPY. Bookplate of the Right Hon.John Smyth of Heath Hall, Co. York. Descended from Richard Smyth (born 1594) of Myreshaw, in the Parish of Bradford, John Smyth was a Privy Councillor, a Lord of the Admiralty and of the Treasury and Master of the Mint. Born in 1748 he married Lady Georgina Fitzroy, elder daughter of the third Duke of Grafton. He was M.P. for Pontefract for 25 years and died in 1811
Wantrup pages 63-64 'It offers a full record of events both on land and on sea in the first months of the settlement, detailing the early expeditions of Phillip and the other officers into the interior around Botany Bay and Port Jackson, the earliest costal voyages of discovery...most interesting and famous of the charts is the earliest plan of the settlement at Sydney Cove...A detailed and officially sanctioned account of the new colony, the first edition of Stockdale's Phillip is a key work and essential to any serious collection of Australian books'.
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