COLLINS, David (1756-1810). An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, with remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand. - [Vol. II. An account of a Voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass, by which the Existence of a Strait separating van Dieman's Land from the Continent of New Holland was Ascertained. ] London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802.
COLLINS, David (1756-1810). An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, with remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand. - [Vol. II. An account of a Voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass, by which the Existence of a Strait separating van Dieman's Land from the Continent of New Holland was Ascertained. ] London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802. 2 volumes, 4 o (269 x 209 mm). 3 engraved maps (one folding), 23 engraved plates (3 hand-colored), and 8 engraved illustrations in text (one colored). (Some occasional pale staining.) Contemporary tree calf, early sympathetic rebacking, spines gilt, with red and green morocco labels (light wear to joints and edges). Provenance : James Frampton (bookplate). THE FIRST HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES FIRST EDITION, with hand-colored plates, of the last of the First Fleet journals, prepared and published after Collins' return to England in 1796, up-dated with the latest news of Bass and Flinders's circumnavigation of the continent, preceding the official publication of that voyage by more than ten years. It was printed from Bass's own journal, which was then lost and never again found. Collins' appended "Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Natives of New South Wales" is accompanied by 9 extraordinary plates from drawings by the convict artist Thomas Watling who worked for Collins and John White In his realistic portrayal of the various stages of an initiation ceremony and a burial he "no longer uses the enobling poses of antique sculpture" (Smith, European Vision and the South Pacific ). Collins sailed with the First Fleet to Australia and was the longest serving of any fleet officer, returning from England to found Hobart as a penal outpost in 1804. "His Account has been aptly described as the first history of New South Wales, not just because it strives for meticulous completeness but because Collins was careful to ensure his journal was as impersonal as it could be. He writes not as an individual sharing in a new adventure, as Tench, White and Hunter had, but as a chronicler who tries not to intrude his personality and private interests between his reader and the events he records" (Wantrup). The plates include early views of Sydney and Parramatta, portraits and customs of the aborigines, a Maori chart of New Zealand and others. Ferguson 390; Hill 335; Wantrup 19 and 20. (2)
COLLINS, David (1756-1810). An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, with remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand. - [Vol. II. An account of a Voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass, by which the Existence of a Strait separating van Dieman's Land from the Continent of New Holland was Ascertained. ] London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802.
COLLINS, David (1756-1810). An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, with remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand. - [Vol. II. An account of a Voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass, by which the Existence of a Strait separating van Dieman's Land from the Continent of New Holland was Ascertained. ] London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802. 2 volumes, 4 o (269 x 209 mm). 3 engraved maps (one folding), 23 engraved plates (3 hand-colored), and 8 engraved illustrations in text (one colored). (Some occasional pale staining.) Contemporary tree calf, early sympathetic rebacking, spines gilt, with red and green morocco labels (light wear to joints and edges). Provenance : James Frampton (bookplate). THE FIRST HISTORY OF NEW SOUTH WALES FIRST EDITION, with hand-colored plates, of the last of the First Fleet journals, prepared and published after Collins' return to England in 1796, up-dated with the latest news of Bass and Flinders's circumnavigation of the continent, preceding the official publication of that voyage by more than ten years. It was printed from Bass's own journal, which was then lost and never again found. Collins' appended "Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Natives of New South Wales" is accompanied by 9 extraordinary plates from drawings by the convict artist Thomas Watling who worked for Collins and John White In his realistic portrayal of the various stages of an initiation ceremony and a burial he "no longer uses the enobling poses of antique sculpture" (Smith, European Vision and the South Pacific ). Collins sailed with the First Fleet to Australia and was the longest serving of any fleet officer, returning from England to found Hobart as a penal outpost in 1804. "His Account has been aptly described as the first history of New South Wales, not just because it strives for meticulous completeness but because Collins was careful to ensure his journal was as impersonal as it could be. He writes not as an individual sharing in a new adventure, as Tench, White and Hunter had, but as a chronicler who tries not to intrude his personality and private interests between his reader and the events he records" (Wantrup). The plates include early views of Sydney and Parramatta, portraits and customs of the aborigines, a Maori chart of New Zealand and others. Ferguson 390; Hill 335; Wantrup 19 and 20. (2)
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