Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales. First Published in 1790 ...

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Melbourne: Edition Renard 2002. Folio. Orig. full dark green morocco with bevelled boards. Gilt title on front cover. Spine gilt and with raised bands. Edges gilt. (226pp.). Edition limited to 150 numbered copies only with the 65 plates in colour. Fine and an ideal gift. NOTE: White was Surgeon-General to the new settlement at Port Jackson and went out to Australia in 1787 with the convict Transports in charge of H.M.S. Sirius. He gives an extremely interesting account of the voyage and of early life in New South Wales. The work is of extreme importance as it is the first natural history book on Australia to be published after the arrival of the First Fleet.