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WHITE, John (ca 1756-1832). Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales. London: J. Debrett, 1790.
4o (294 x 235 mm). List of Subscribers. Engraved title with vignette and 65 plates. (Some light foxing at beginning, mostly to verso of plates.) Contemporary calf (lower joint repaired, upper joint starting).
FIRST EDITION, with the "List of Plates" is in the third state, and Hh4 is a cancel. Wantrup describes White's Journal as "of key importance to any collection of Australiana and... a popular book at the time" appealing "particularly to the gentry for whom natural history was the taste of the age." It commences with the sailing of the First Fleet, to which White was chief surgeon, and describes the first ten months of settlement. Some of the engravings, which drew particular attention to bird life, were after drawings sent out from New South Wales but most were based on specimens sent to England. "The long appendix is very important as it describes the natural history of the new colony; the first major work of this sort" (Hill). While holding the post of surgeon general to the colony until his departure in December 1794, his journal itself was sent back to his friend, John Wilson, for publication in 1788. Gilbert's Voyage from New South Wales to Canton was published in 1789 as a companion volume (see lot 227). Ferguson 97; Hill 1858; Nissen ZBI 4390; Wantrup p.17. See Abbey Travel 605.
4o (294 x 235 mm). List of Subscribers. Engraved title with vignette and 65 plates. (Some light foxing at beginning, mostly to verso of plates.) Contemporary calf (lower joint repaired, upper joint starting).
FIRST EDITION, with the "List of Plates" is in the third state, and Hh4 is a cancel. Wantrup describes White's Journal as "of key importance to any collection of Australiana and... a popular book at the time" appealing "particularly to the gentry for whom natural history was the taste of the age." It commences with the sailing of the First Fleet, to which White was chief surgeon, and describes the first ten months of settlement. Some of the engravings, which drew particular attention to bird life, were after drawings sent out from New South Wales but most were based on specimens sent to England. "The long appendix is very important as it describes the natural history of the new colony; the first major work of this sort" (Hill). While holding the post of surgeon general to the colony until his departure in December 1794, his journal itself was sent back to his friend, John Wilson, for publication in 1788. Gilbert's Voyage from New South Wales to Canton was published in 1789 as a companion volume (see lot 227). Ferguson 97; Hill 1858; Nissen ZBI 4390; Wantrup p.17. See Abbey Travel 605.