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COLLINS, DAVID - An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales
Starting Bid: $750
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$1,000 - $1,500
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COLLINS, DAVID
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.... London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printers Street, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand. 1804, second edition. [xx]p, 562p, adverts. Frontis portrait, 23 full-page plates including 3 hand-coloured, 2 maps one fldg, and 8 fine illusts depicting a corroboree, 8 text engravings (2 hand-coloured); 7-page N.S.W. vocabulary & 5-page Maori vocabulary.
Plates mostly cropped as usual, but with no loss of the image area; 268mm, rebound in modern half leather with marbled boards, a very nice, clean and crisp copy; scarce.