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Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales.. by FIELD, Barron - 1825

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Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales..

by FIELD, Barron

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London: John Murray, 1825. Some offsetting.. Octavo, with a frontispiece, four folding maps and two botanical plates at rear; an attractive copy in later full tan calf gilt, red spine label, Bonython bookplate.

First edition: one of the more important and interesting works relating to the Macquarie era. This work includes any number of essays on Australia collected during Field's residence in New South Wales from 1817 to 1824, notably the only published account of Oxley's 1823 expedition to survey the Queensland coast, along with a second narrative of the expedition by one of the participants, John Uniacke.

Apart from Oxley's account of Moreton Bay, the work has several early expedition journals, including the only published account of Allan Cunningham's exploration to the Liverpool Plains, Currie's expedition to the southward of Lake George and Field's own journal of his trip across the Blue Mountains.

The work is very interesting in terms of Aboriginal history for the inclusion of Oxley's report of the expedition to Moreton Bay which has important notes on the local tribes (including two chapters recounting fights Oxley had witnessed). There is also Barron Field's own meandering essay 'On the Aborigines of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land'.

There are also several significant essays on natural history, the best being Cunningham's 'On the Botany of the Blue Mountains', while the botanical plates at the end illustrate four plants including Fieldia Australis (named for Barron Field).

The fine frontispiece image is after a drawing by John Lewin, Australia's first professional artist. Interestingly, this work makes a perhaps surprising appearance in Abbey's Travel in Aquatint and Lithography, which is testament to the quality of Lewin's view.

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  • Bookseller Hordern House Rare Books AU (AU)
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  • Publisher John Murray
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1825

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Geographical Memoirs On New South Wales: By Various Hands...Together With Other Papers On the Aborigines, the Geology, the Botany, the Timber, the Astronomy, and the Meteorology of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

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Geographical Memoirs On New South Wales: By Various Hands...Together With Other Papers On the Aborigines, the Geology, the Botany, the Timber, the Astronomy, and the Meteorology of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

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Geographical Memoirs On New South Wales; By Various Hands: Containing An Account Of The Surveyor General's Late Expedition To Two New Ports; The Discovery of Moreton Bay River, With The Adventures For Seven Months There Of Two Shipwrecked Men; A Route

by FIELD, Barron [1786-1846] (Editor)

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London: John Murray, 1825., 1825. 8vo. pp. ownership entry of Thomas B.Hassall, 1825. 8vo. pp. xvi, 504. aquatint frontis. & 2 engraved botanical plates. 4 folding engraved maps. original cloth-backed bds. (some foxing, paper flaw in frontis., joints, spine ends & label frayed & chipped). few old ms. notes. First Edition of this collection of material relating to major expeditions and discoveries in New South Wales and eastern Australia. Included here are two reports relating to Surveyor-General John Oxley's expedition to survey Port Curtis and Moreton Bay, with a view to forming convict establishments there, and on which he discovered the Brisbane River and chose the site of the future city of Brisbane, written by Oxley himself and by John Uniacke, the only published account of Allan Cunningham's exploration from Bathurst to the Liverpool Plains, Field's essay on the aborigines of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land, Captain Mark John Currie's journal of an excursion to… Read More
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