Voyage from New South Wales to Canton, in the year 1788 : with views of the islands discovered / by Thomas Gilbert
- Bib ID:
- 969111
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gilbert, Thomas
- Description:
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- London : Printed by George Stafford for J. Debrett , 1789
- [2], x, 85, [3] pages, 4 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm. (4to)
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK587.
- Notes:
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- Advertisements on last leaf.
- Gilbert’s account provides some of the earliest information on the First Fleet and settlement at Botany Bay.
- National Library of Australia's FRM 1, N (Parliament) copy rebound in half blue leather with Parliament of the Commonwealth Library gilt supralibros on front cover; stamped 'Commonwealth of Australia, Library of the Parliament' 17 NOV 1904, 7374; pages 9-10, 15-16 of ? bound in at rear, before advertisement for new publications printed for J. Debrett - White's 'Journal of a voyage to Botany-Bay, in New South Wales; with manuscript calculations relating to latitude, longitude and parallactic angles.
- National Library of Australia's FRM 2, NL (Petherick) copy is best; rebound in half leather with marbled end papers and yellow dyed edges; marginal cross-references in pencil and ink annotations on introductory page [i], pp. 2-4, 14, 16, 38-9, 52, 57 and 68.
- National Library of Australia's NK587 copy half bound in marbled boards; bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1789/4).
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK587.
- Cited In:
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- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 38
- Hill, 702
- Wantrup, J. Australian rare books, 1788-1900, 18
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- 1789
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- Publication date:
- 1789
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