Item #17581 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. Donald FRIEND, Henry ENNIS.
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 ...
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 ...

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, 1983.

Quarto, [vi], 34 pages with a decorated title page and frontispiece (both are linocuts by Donald Friend).

Quarter leather and cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.

'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', including the formal annexation. Number 63 of only 160 copies. McLaren 8002.

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