The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island;

Compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments. To which are added, the Journals of Lieutenants Shortland, Watts, Ball and Captain Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. The views &c. &c. drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. Dublin : Printed for P. Byrne, J. Moore, Grueber and M’Allister, and W. Jones, 1790. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), contemporary tree calf, spine with gilt rule and contrasting title label lettered in gilt ‘Phillip’s Voyage’ (spine somewhat worn, and softened at ends); front pastedown with ex libris of Australian academic A. J. Marshall; engraved portrait frontispiece of Arthur Phillip, pp. xiv, viii, 352, lxxiv (Appendix, including a register of convicts listed by name and sentence); illustrated with a further 7 engraved plates: ‘View of Botany Bay, ‘View in Port Jackson’, ‘Natives of Botany Bay’, ‘View of a hut in New South Wales’, ‘A View in New South Wales’ (not in the List of the Plates), ‘A Stone Ax, A Basket of the Bark of a Tree, A Wooden Sword’, ‘A Canoe and Natives of Mulgraves Range’ (not in the List of the Plates); bound without ‘Plan of Port Jackson’; frontispiece with nick to fore-edge, a few leaves in the Appendix also with tiny loss at upper corners, otherwise a fine copy with generous margins, clean and fresh throughout.

Early pirated edition (and the first published in Dublin) of the official account of the First Fleet and the establishment of Port Jackson, first published in London in 1789.

Ferguson, 93 (calling for a total of seven plates including the frontispiece portrait)