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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. subscriber's list. Engraved title with integral medallion vignette, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Governor Phillip by W.Sherwin after F.Wheatly, 53 plates, plans and maps (5 folding, 2 double-page). (Lacking final publisher's advertisement leaf, many plates browned and spotted, title and leaves before 'advertisement' detached, H2 and g3 with horizontal tears, H4 holed without loss, two plates and three charts with tears.) Contemporary half calf (worn, covers detached).
Provenance: William Waterhouse (signature, pencil inscription); Susanna Maria Waterhouse (signature, second surviving daughter of William); Henry Pownall (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, AND AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. Issue with title in earlier state with Webber's name beneath the vignette, 'Wulpine' for 'Vulpine' on plate facing page 150, p.122 numbered 221 in error. 'As a detailed and officially sanctioned account of the new colony, [the present work] ... is a key work and essential to any serious collection of Australian books" (Wantrup. Australian Rare Books p,64). William Waterhouse was the father of Henry Waterhouse (1770-1812, midshipman aboard the first fleet vessel Sirius) and father-in-law and financial backer of George Bass, who married his eldest daughter Elizabeth. The pencilled inscription takes the form of ten lines of verse written in answer to Erasmus Darwin's 'Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove' : "Misjudging Poet to have left [out] The stately Mantion & Redoubt Whose Author pride of southern sto[ry] Struts like any Cockatoo or Lory With the pale purple at his heels His own reflected lustre feels Go on great pair nor cease your [ ] To sing the praises of the soul Hang up on high the golden flee[ce] To lure Britannias silly Geese". Ferguson 47; Wantrup p.345.
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. subscriber's list. Engraved title with integral medallion vignette, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Governor Phillip by W.Sherwin after F.Wheatly, 53 plates, plans and maps (5 folding, 2 double-page). (Lacking final publisher's advertisement leaf, many plates browned and spotted, title and leaves before 'advertisement' detached, H2 and g3 with horizontal tears, H4 holed without loss, two plates and three charts with tears.) Contemporary half calf (worn, covers detached).
Provenance: William Waterhouse (signature, pencil inscription); Susanna Maria Waterhouse (signature, second surviving daughter of William); Henry Pownall (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, AND AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. Issue with title in earlier state with Webber's name beneath the vignette, 'Wulpine' for 'Vulpine' on plate facing page 150, p.122 numbered 221 in error. 'As a detailed and officially sanctioned account of the new colony, [the present work] ... is a key work and essential to any serious collection of Australian books" (Wantrup. Australian Rare Books p,64). William Waterhouse was the father of Henry Waterhouse (1770-1812, midshipman aboard the first fleet vessel Sirius) and father-in-law and financial backer of George Bass, who married his eldest daughter Elizabeth. The pencilled inscription takes the form of ten lines of verse written in answer to Erasmus Darwin's 'Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove' : "Misjudging Poet to have left [out] The stately Mantion & Redoubt Whose Author pride of southern sto[ry] Struts like any Cockatoo or Lory With the pale purple at his heels His own reflected lustre feels Go on great pair nor cease your [ ] To sing the praises of the soul Hang up on high the golden flee[ce] To lure Britannias silly Geese". Ferguson 47; Wantrup p.345.