The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Printed for John Stockdale 1789. 4to. Half calf over red cloth. Spine with raised bands and gilt. Top edge gilt. (298 lxxiv 2pp). With marbled endpapers frontispiece portrait title-page with engraved vignette 6 folding charts 1 of which sympathetically repaired 47 plates and terminal advertisement leaf. Fresh endpapers. Some foxing and offsetting throughout otherwise a near fine early copy. NOTE: Governor Arthur Phillip was the first governor of New South Wales from 1786 to 1793 and was responsible for the first comprehensive description of the life and challenges facing the young colony. This is a foundation book of any serious collectors library.