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PHILLIP, ARTHUR. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk
PHILLIP, ARTHUR. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island. 55 engraved plates and maps, including frontispiece portrait and pictorial title. [6], 6, [2], viii, [8], x, 298, lxxiv, [2] pages, including final ad leaf. 4to, contemporary tree calf gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip; varying offsetting from plates, light soiling on frontispiece and title, small piece off bottom edge of plate facing page 62. London: 1789
- Notes: first edition of the first and official account of the expedition. "Phillip was given the task of founding a convict settlement in Australia, and became the first governor of New South Wales. Reaching Botany Bay in 1788, via Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, and the Cape of Good Hope, Phillip decided that the site was unsatisfactory and sailed to Port Jackson, where he founded the city named Sydney, after Thomas Townsend, Viscount Sydney, secretary of state"--Hill, page 233. Ferguson 47.
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