The Journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth: Surgeon 'Lady Penrhyn' 1787-1789.

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Sydney (1979). Small 4to. Orig. cloth binding. In soiled dustjacket. (xx 196pp.). With numerous illusts. most full-page. 1st ed. Annots on front fly-leaf otherwise fine. NOTE: Arthur Bowes Smyth (1750-1790) sailed with the First Fleet from Portsmouth to Sydney in 1787-1788 as a surgeon on a ship carrying 109 women convicts. Includes list of the female convicts on the Lady Penrhyn.