A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales : including an accurate description of the situation of the colony; of the natives; and of its natural productions / taken on the spot, by Captain Watkin Tench
- Bib ID:
- 2324077
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833
- Description:
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- London : Sold by G. Nicol ... and J. Sewell ... , 1793
- xvi, 212 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : map ; 28 cm. (4to)
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK2389
- Notes:
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- Signatures: [a]-bp4s B-2Dp4s 2Ep2s.
- With a list of subscribers (p. [ix]-xvi)
- Accompanied by a fragment of an unidentified pamphlet containing reports of various deaths and court proceedings.
- National Library of Australia's Robinson 372 copy quarter bound in paper boards with paper spine lable; untrimmed; inscribed on t.p., "Hugh Fraser 1799"; also bears the W.S. Robinson bookplate.
- One of Library's copies lacks pp.ix-xvi.
- National Library of Australia's NK2389 copy in brown slipcase; untrimmed; bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1793/4).
- National Library of Australia's FRM F171 (Petherick) copy half bound with marbled boards and edges.
- National Library of Australia's FRM F171 copy quarter bound with blue ribbon; stamped Commonwealth of Australia, Library of the Parliament, 19 Jun. 1903, 1141; Angus & Robertson (Melbourne) bookseller's label pasted inside front cover.
- Cited In:
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- C & C 7515
- ESTC t136607
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 171
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Settlement at Port Jackson - Tench.
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1833
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1793
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