COLLINS, David (1756-1810). An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788, to August 1801: with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that country. To which are added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; and an account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass; by which the existence of a strait separating Van Diemen's Land from the continent of New Holland was ascertained. Abstracted from the journal of Mr. Bass . London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. 4° (267 x 215mm). 34 engraved plates, comprising: frontispiece portrait, 20 engraved views, 3 hand-coloured natural history plates, 8 engraved vignettes, one hand-coloured, and 2 maps, one folding, vocabularies of New South Wales and of New Zealand, with the map of the North Island (without half title, faint institutional blind-stamp at some lower margins, ink-stamped number on title verso). 20th-century crimson half crushed morocco by Brian Frost and Company, Bath, top edges gilt. Second edition, with hand-coloured plates, of the last of the First Fleet journals, prepared and published after Collins' return to England in 1796, up-dated for this second edition and with the latest news of Bass and Flinders's circumnavigation of the continent, preceding the official publication of that voyage by 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. Ferguson 390; cf. Hill 335 (first edition).
COLLINS, David (1756-1810). An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788, to August 1801: with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that country. To which are added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; and an account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass; by which the existence of a strait separating Van Diemen's Land from the continent of New Holland was ascertained. Abstracted from the journal of Mr. Bass . London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. 4° (267 x 215mm). 34 engraved plates, comprising: frontispiece portrait, 20 engraved views, 3 hand-coloured natural history plates, 8 engraved vignettes, one hand-coloured, and 2 maps, one folding, vocabularies of New South Wales and of New Zealand, with the map of the North Island (without half title, faint institutional blind-stamp at some lower margins, ink-stamped number on title verso). 20th-century crimson half crushed morocco by Brian Frost and Company, Bath, top edges gilt. Second edition, with hand-coloured plates, of the last of the First Fleet journals, prepared and published after Collins' return to England in 1796, up-dated for this second edition and with the latest news of Bass and Flinders's circumnavigation of the continent, preceding the official publication of that voyage by 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. Ferguson 390; cf. Hill 335 (first edition).
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