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An Authentic and Interesting Narrative of the late Expedition to Botany Bay, as performed by Commodore Phillips and the Fleet of Seven Transport Ships under his Command… by Officer, An - 1978

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An Authentic and Interesting Narrative of the late Expedition to Botany Bay, as performed by Commodore Phillips and the Fleet of Seven Transport Ships under his Command… by Officer, An - 1978

An Authentic and Interesting Narrative of the late Expedition to Botany Bay, as performed by Commodore Phillips and the Fleet of Seven Transport Ships under his Command…

by Officer, An

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North Sydney: Library of Australian History. 1978. (Facsimile Series Number 12.) Edition limited to 800 copies. Small 8vo. [viii], 43pp, plus 2pp index, 2 illus. Case-bound in blue cloth. A fine clean copy. ***Title continues: 'Containing a circumstantial Account of their perillous Voyage, Dissentions on Board and safe Arrival on the Coast of New Holland. With particular descriptions of Jackson's Bay & Lord Howe Island, the Reception they met with from the Natives, their Customs and Manners; Progress of the Settlement, and Laws and Government established for their further Improvement'. First published in London and Aberdeen, 1789. .
  • Bookseller Astrolabe Booksellers AU (AU)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Library of Australian History
  • Place of Publication North Sydney
  • Date Published 1978
  • Keywords aborigines, australia, colonial, early settlement, first fleet, Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, voyages

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An Authentic and Interesting Narrative of the Late Expedition to Botany Bay as Performed by Commodore Phillips and the Fleet of the Seven Transport Ships under His Command [etc] [Facsimile Series].

by Officer Just Returned, An

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Sydney: Library of Australian History (LAH), 1978. Facsimile ed.. Hardback small, no jacket as issued, very good plus condition, navy blue cloth cover (embossed edges, gilt spine lettering), black & white frontispiece, minor scuffing front endpapers. 48 pp. Title ends: "and Safe Arrival on the Coast of New Holland, with Particular Descriptions of Jackson's Bay & Lord Howe Island". An anonymous account, by an officer, of the First Fleet's departure from Plymouth (April 1787) to his embarkation on The Prince of Wales for his return voyage to England (14 July 1788). The first available firsthand description of events at Botany Bay, Port Jackson and Norfolk Island. Originally published in two versions, Aberdeen & London, 1789. Both title pages and one preface are reproduced here in facsimile, but the text of the London edition has been re-set (retaining original spelling, etc.) because it was too poor to reproduce in facsimile. (No 12 in the Library of Australian History… Read More
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