Lot 6027: HUNTER, JOHN. 1738-1821. An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean. London: John Stockdale, [1793].

An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean. London: John Stockdale, [1793]. [xvi], 583 pp. Stipple-engraved frontispiece, engraved title, 15 plates and folding maps. 4to (280 x 215 mm). Later half sheep, spine gilt. Foxing and light offsetting around plates, title and one plate with imprint cropped, one map with neatline shaved, binding rubbed with chip at spine edge.

First edition. Includes one of the earliest views of Sydney, after a sketch by Hunter dated 1788, and a plate of a New South Wales family engraved by William Blake. Ferguson 152; Hill 857.
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