The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay


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Excerpt from The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay: With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers to Wth are added the Journals of Lieuts. Short land, Watts, Ball, and Capt. Marshall, With an account of their new discoveries. London, printed for John Stockdale, 1789. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay


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The remaindered issue of the 1st. ed. of 1789, self-described 'third' edition in its deluxe form with hand coloured plates. The rarest form of Stockdale's edition of the official account of the first settlement of Australia. Excludes preliminary pages and some plates. Stockdale includes handcoloured plates on laid paper from his remaining first edition stock, but where a handcoloured plate was no longer available he included an uncoloured impression on wove paper in its place or left it out.




The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay


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This 1789 work describes the voyage of the First Fleet, and the birth of one of the world's great cities.




The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay


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