Early Australia

BARRINGTON, George.
A New Edition. Memoirs of George Barrington...
London, M. Smith, 1790.

Octavo, with engraved frontispiece (Barrington picking Prince Orlow's pocket at the Opera); a fine copy, uncut in...

Scarce: one of a number of chapbook-type publications of the early 1790s, all of which are rare, on the "Prince of...

Ferguson, 67a.

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BARRINGTON, George.
A Voyage to Botany Bay...
London, C. Lowndes and... H.D. Symonds, n.d. [circa 1795] &, 1801.

Octavo, engraved frontispiece and title vignette to the first work; a fine copy, completely uncut in original papered...

A desirable copy of an early pairing of the first two Barrington Botany Bay works; entirely as issued, uncut in...

Ferguson, 206 & 328; Wantrup, 26 (second work).

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BARRINGTON, George.
A Voyage to New South Wales...
London, Printed for the Proprietor; Sold by H.D. Symonds, 1795.

Octavo; coloured endpapers soiled and a couple of spots, but a superb copy in contemporary speckled calf.

Very scarce and almost certainly the original source of the numerous later editions and pamphlet...

Ferguson, 205; Wantrup, 25.

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BARRINGTON, George.
A Voyage to New South Wales...
Philadelphia, Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1796.

Duodecimo, with 2-pp. publisher's advertisements; the text embrowned and some scattered staining but a very good...

Only the second work on Australia to be published in America. This first American edition of Barrington's...

Ferguson, 235; not in Sabin.

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BARRINGTON, George.
An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales... [and] The History of New South Wales...
London, Jones, 1810.

Two volumes, octavo; a fine pair with both works completely uncut in original boards, later paper title-labels;...

A beautiful uncut set of Barrington's famous pair of works, rare in this condition. The History, with its...

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BARRINGTON, George.
The Genuine Life and Trial of George Barrington...
London, W. Clements & J. Sadler, 1791.

Octavo in fours, with wood-engraved frontispiece; frontispiece cropped by an early binder, title repaired, contemporary...

Very rare: the second issue of this scarce pamphlet celebrating the misdeeds and famous speeches from the dock of...

Ferguson, 98a.

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[CANADIAN EXILES] MILLER, Linus Wilson.
Notes of an Exile to Van Dieman's Land...
Fredonia, New York, Printed by W. McKinstry & Co, 1846.

Octavo, original cloth, some occasional spotting; in the original blind embossed dark cloth, neatly rebacked, original...

Only edition and scarce: 'A most vivid and interesting account of the convict system in Tasmania from within by a...

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COLLINS, David.
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales...
London, Cadell and Davies, 1798- 1802.

Two volumes, quarto, with three maps, 23 engraved plates (three handcoloured), and eight half-page engravings (two...

The complete first edition of David Collins's Account, the earliest history of Australia as a British colony and...

Ferguson, 263 & 350; Wantrup, 19-20.

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COLLINS, David.
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales...
London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804.

Quarto, with a portrait frontispiece, two maps (one folding), 23 engraved plates and eight half-page engravings; a few...

The second edition of Collins' famous First Fleet account, a 'detailed and informed record of all important...

Ferguson, 390; Wantrup, 21.

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COLLINS, David.
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales...
London, 1804.

Quarto, with a portrait, two maps, 23 engraved plates and eight half-page engravings; a few very light marginal stains,...

The second edition of Collins's famous First Fleet account, considerably changed from the original two-volume edition....

Ferguson, 390; Wantrup, 21.

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