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PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814). The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay. London: for John Stockdale, 1789.
4° (279 x 223mm). Engraved title, portrait frontispiece and 53 plates, maps and charts, 6 folding, 1 double-page. (Some offsetting of plates onto text, some plates somewhat browned and spotted.) Contemporary half calf (spine and extremities worn). Provenance: Viscount Strathallan (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, with "Vulpine" reading of title to plate at page 150, and the second state of the title. A "key work and essential to any serious collection of Australian books" (Wantrup p.64)."The first authentic and official account of the expedition to New South Wales and of the foundation of the settlement." Ferguson 47; Wantrup p.345.
4° (279 x 223mm). Engraved title, portrait frontispiece and 53 plates, maps and charts, 6 folding, 1 double-page. (Some offsetting of plates onto text, some plates somewhat browned and spotted.) Contemporary half calf (spine and extremities worn). Provenance: Viscount Strathallan (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, with "Vulpine" reading of title to plate at page 150, and the second state of the title. A "key work and essential to any serious collection of Australian books" (Wantrup p.64)."The first authentic and official account of the expedition to New South Wales and of the foundation of the settlement." Ferguson 47; Wantrup p.345.