Books, Plates, 
Documents & Ephemera
861
PHILLIP, Governor Arthur.
The VOYAGE of GOVERNOR PHILLIP to BOTANY BAY; 
with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of 
PORT JACKSON & NORFOLK ISLAND.
[London, John Stockdale, 1789]. Quarto, with frontispiece 
portrait, engraved title with vignette, 7 folding charts and 46 
engraved plates; terminal advertisement leaf; second state of 
the title-page, with a single name on the medallion; page 122 
with uncorrected number “221”, “Wulpine” Opossum to Plate 
at p.150; early state of the “Kangooroo” plate at p.106. A very 
good copy in contemporary leather, rebacked preserving the 
original spine. With the bookplates of William Lacon Childe of 
Kinlet, and G.N. Ingleton to the inside front cover.
The officially sanctioned account of the new Colony, this is 
a full record of events in the first months of the settlement 
from March 1787, just before the First Fleet sailed, up to 
September 1788. The text records the early expeditions into 
the interior around Botany Bay and Port Jackson, and the 
earliest coastal voyages of discovery. Text and plates illustrate 
newly discovered animal life, and among the charts and plans 
is the earliest plan of the settlement at Sydney Cove, showing 
what buildings and other progress had been made there by 
July 1788.
Ferguson 47; Wantrup 5a.
$4,000–5,000
862
John WHITE (1756 - 1832, Surgeon-General to the First Fleet 
and Settlement),
JOURNAL of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five 
Plates of Non Descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, 
curious Cones of Trees and other NATURAL PRODUCTIONS.
[London : J. Debrett, 1790], quarto, engraved title vignette, 
65 engraved plates with fine contemporary hand colouring, 
contemporary diced leather, spine neatly repaired. The List of 
Subscribers is present.
Ferguson 97; Wantrup 17.
The natural history content makes White’s particularly 
noteworthy amongst the First Fleet journals. Many of the 
plates were drawn in England by leading natural history artists 
of the day, such as Sarah Stone and Frederick Nodder, based 
on original sketches done in the Colony. White’s journal also 
contains a good description of the voyage from London, 
with long, detailed accounts of the stops at Rio de Janeiro, 
Capetown and of the voyages to Norfolk Island.
$5,000–7,500
863
SIR JOSEPH BANKS: A large and impressive 1791 indenture on 
vellum pertaining to a purchase of land in Kingsley, Staffordshire 
by the famous HMS Endeavour botanist, 63 x 78cm, together 
with 1718 18-page abstract of title related to Banks’ family land 
holdings. Banks’ two signatures on the indenture are clear and 
legible, and are accompanied by his wax seal.
$1,000–2,000
864
Two antique engravings titled:
I.)	
Man Of New Zealand,
II.)	 Woman Of New Zealand,
published in London,
29 x 22cm each, 43 x 34cm each overall. (2)
$200–300 ❖
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