Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non-Descript Animals Birds Lizards Serpents curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions.

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London: Printed for J. Debrett 1790. 4to. Contemporary calf with gilt spine and morocco label (rebacked). (xviii 300 36 ivpp.). With title-page vignette and 65 hand-coloured plates. Original marbled end-papers bound in. Foxing on title-page dedication front advertisement and back end-papers. Some off-setting present and archival tape repair on pp. 1 of the dedication otherwise a fine copy of the first edition. NOTE: White was Surgeon-General to the Settlement and went out to Australia in 1787 with the convict Transports in charge of H.M.S. Sirius. He gives an extremely interesting account of the voyage and of early life in New South Wales. The work is of extreme importance as it is the first natural history book on Australia to be published after the arrival of the First Fleet.