Remarks on Board His Majesty's Ship 'Tamar', in a Voyage from England to Port Praia, Cape of Good Hope - New South Wales, and from thence, along the Coast of Australia, to Port Essington in the Cobourg Peninsula, and thence to Bathurst and Melville Islands, Aspley's Straits, between 27th February & the 13th of November 1824 ...
South Melbourne, Richard Griffin Publisher Pty Ltd, 1983 (first thus).
Small folio, [vi], 34 pages with a decorated title page and frontispiece by Donald Friend; printed on hand-made paper.
Quarter leather and cloth; edges uncut; two tiny spots of wear on the rear cover; essentially a fine copy with the very good dustwrapper (unevenly sunned, very slightly worn at the top edge, and with two short closed tears repaired on the verso).
Number 99 of only 160 copies. 'The text is printed here, for the first time in book form, pretty much as it appeared in issues 413 to 417 of "The Monthly Magazine", published in London from August 1825 ... an account of the opening chapter in the history of British settlement in northern Australia' (from the introduction by Kenneth Hince). McLaren 8002.
Item #145796
Price (AUD):
$200.00