Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales

Melbourne: Edition Renard, 2002.
Facsimile Edition.

46cm x 31.5cm. 226 pages, frontispiece, 65 coloured plates from the hand coloured originals. Full dark green goatskin leather, gilt lettering, all edges gilt.

One of 150 numbered copies of the standard edition (from a total edition of 212). A new edition of the first significant natural history book on Australia published after the First Fleet, with the text reset in Garamond, attractively printed in black, red, and green, and the plates enlarged by 50%. The 65 plates, by Sarah Stone, F. P. Nodder, and others, comprise 29 of birds (including splendid parrots), 10 of reptiles and amphibians, 7 mammals (marsupials and the Dingo), 6 of fishes, 9 of plants (including magnificent Banksias), 2 of invertebrates, and 2 of Aboriginal weapons and artefacts. In the original, the cancelled leaf Hh4 carries variant text for the Wattled Bee-Eater (the female in the cancelled state, the male in the uncancelled), both reproduced here, with bibliographical and publishing notes appended.

Very minor shelf and handling wear. Near Fine Condition.

AU$1,000