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Arthur Phillip (1738-1814)
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 ... to which are added, The Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall, London: for John Stockdale, 1789. 4° (28.6 x 22cm.), errata leaf, 8pp. list of subscribers, engraved portrait frontispiece of Governor Phillip by W. Sherwin after F. Wheatley, 53 plates, plans and maps, 5 folding and 2 double-page (frontispiece and title lightly spotted, marginal browning and occasional spots to folding plates, some offsetting onto text leaves, 2 leaves with marginal repairs), contemporary half calf, red morocco lettering piece (extremities rubbed, covers scuffed, rebacked). FIRST EDITION. Provenance: armorial bookplate of William Philip, Earl of Felton. Wantrup Australian Rare Books p. 64.
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 ... to which are added, The Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall, London: for John Stockdale, 1789. 4° (28.6 x 22cm.), errata leaf, 8pp. list of subscribers, engraved portrait frontispiece of Governor Phillip by W. Sherwin after F. Wheatley, 53 plates, plans and maps, 5 folding and 2 double-page (frontispiece and title lightly spotted, marginal browning and occasional spots to folding plates, some offsetting onto text leaves, 2 leaves with marginal repairs), contemporary half calf, red morocco lettering piece (extremities rubbed, covers scuffed, rebacked). FIRST EDITION. Provenance: armorial bookplate of William Philip, Earl of Felton. Wantrup Australian Rare Books p. 64.
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