Sales catalogue 562: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/107
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 562: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AUSTRALIA. 149 COLLINS (David). An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. To which are added some particulars of New Zealand. With 24 engraved plates and maps. Together with Continuation Volume containing’ the history to 1801. With map and 5 plates. First Epirions. 2 vols., 4to, contemporary polished tree calf, gilt, Uniform. London, 1798 and 1802. £9 9s. 150 COLLINS (David). The Original Work by itself, in the original calf. £5. 5S: 151 COLLINS (David). The Supplementary Volume by itself, in original calf. £4 4s. 152. COLLINS (David). The Second Edition, which combines the original work and the supplement in one volume. 4to, original calf. London, 1804. £5 5S. 153 CUNNINGHAM (P.). Two Years in New South Wales. First Epirion, 2 vols., 8vo, half calf. London, 1827. £1 Is. 154 DOBIE (W. W.). Recollections of a Visit to Port-Phillip, Australia, in 1852-55. Svo, boards. Glasgow, 1856. ets: 155 EDEN (Rt. Hon. Wm.). The History of New Holland, from its first Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time. Folding map of Australia with insert of Botany Bay, and a general chart. First Eprrion. 8vo, calf. London, 1787. £2 1s. Wm. Eden, the author of this curious and interesting book, was afterwards lst Lord Auckland. THe confines himself to authentic accounts, and gives relations of the wreck of Pelsart off the West Coast of Australia; the two visits of Dampier to Australia, in 1688, ‘when he spent two months on the West Coast, and in 1699, when he spent a week on the coast of N.W. Australia, and penetrated a short distance inland; Capt. Furneaux’ account; and a long account of Capt. Cook’s Austrahan explorations and discoveries. 8vo, original cloth. Melbourne, 1859. tos. 6d. 157 FORSTER (J. R.). Die Neuesten Reisen nach der Botany-Bay und Port- Jackson . . . aus dem Englischen von J. Reinhold Forster. With 5 maps and 11 plates. 2 vols., 8vo, original wrappers, uncut. Berlin, 1794. £I 5s. Forster’s German translations of the Accounts of New South Wales by Phillips, White and Hunter, Capt. Bligh’s Voyage, King’s account of Norfolk Island, ete.
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