First views of Australia 1788-1825 : an early history of Sydney

Sydney : Longueville Publications, 1987. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Large quarto, publisher’s navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, in illustrated dust jacket, light handling marks, light foxing to preliminaries, 340 pp, illustrated throughout (mostly colour plates), introduction by Robert Irving, with biographical notes on the artists, index; a very good copy of this important reference work, housed in the original mailing carton.