- Bib ID:
- 3409531
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Officer
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. RBRS N 919.44042 032 copy
- Description:
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- London : Printed by W. Bailey, 50 Bishopsgate-Street within, H. Lemoine, Bishopsgate Church Yard and J. Parsons, 21 Paternoster- Row, 1789
- 43 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
- Summary:
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A chapbook and unrecorded variant regarded as the first and earliest issue of the first work to record the foundation of Australia.
- Notes:
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- Related to Ferguson 42 but distinct with six differences. The title contains three; the imprint has a different address for Bailey; the frontispiece is a handbill with two etchings of a press-gang and a hanging scene; pp. 6-17 printed on blue paper.
- Related to Ferguson 43-44.
- Signatures: A4-E4, F3.
- National Library of Australia's RBRS N 919.44042 032 copy bound in leather and boxed in red leather with spine label: Phillip's expedition to Botany Bay 1789; bears the Ex libris M & R Disney Davidson bookplate; ink-inscribed with mathematical calculations and a liquor list inside the front cover.
- RBRS N 919.44042 032 copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-125817405
- Source of Acquisition:
- National Library of Australia's RBRS N 919.44042 032 copy acquired at the Davidson Collection auction, 7 March 2005.
- Cited In:
- Australian Book Auctions. The Davidson Collection ... first sale, lot 129.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Davidson, Rodney Disney, 1933-, former owner
- Also Titled:
- Authentic and interesting narrative of the late expedition to Botany Bay
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1789
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