A Description of Botany Bay on the East Side of New Holland in the Indian Seas where Government mean to form a Settlement for the Reception of Male and Female Convicts sentenced by the Laws of this Country to Transportation ...

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Lancaster: Printed by H. Walmsley (1787). Facsimile limited edition Sydney: Edwards & Shaw 1983. 12mo. Orig. printed wrapper. (8pp.). Edition limited to 300 numbered copies only. Fine. NOTE: The original of this pamphlet is listed as item 21 in Ferguson's 'Bibliography of Australia' and was the earliest separate description of Botany Bay. Only two copies are known to survive.