Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of nondescript animals, birds, lizards, serpents…

by John White

A$8,750 · Offered by Hordern House

London: J. Debrett, 1790. Quarto, engraved title page with vignette and 65 plates; in a very good period-style quarter calf binding by Aquarius, flat spine gilt in compartments. The third major First Fleet book, and the most important on early natural history

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