ÖDMANN (Samuel), ed.

John Whites Resa till Nya Holland, åren 1787 och 1788.

THE FIRST PICTURES OF AUSTRALIA PUBLISHED IN SWEDEN(?)

4 engraved plates. 12mo. Twentieth-century half calf, marbled boards. xii, 148pp. Upsala, 1793.

£225.00

“This Swedish compilation on the beginnings of the British penal settlement in New South Wales was based upon J.R. Forster’s German versions of the published English accounts by Phillip and White..” (du Rietz). In addition to the First Fleet account, the final thirty-three pages cover Capt. Cook’s First Voyage. Ferguson, 172; Kroepelien, 915

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197770