Two years at Sea: being the narrative of a voyage to the Swan River and Van Dieman's land, during the years 1829, 30, 31.
ROBERTS (Jane).

Two years at Sea: being the narrative of a voyage to the Swan River and Van Dieman's land, during the years 1829, 30, 31.

First edition. 2 aquatints plates. 8vo. Untrimmed in contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards, red morocco label to spine, extremities rubbed, a little spotted throughout, presentation inscription to front free endpaper. xvii, [i], 396pp. London, R. Bentley, 1834.

£850.00

An uncommon work documenting the first days of the Swan River colony.

The voyage of the Wanstead wasn’t not only documented by Roberts, both Mary Ann Friend (wife of the captain) and William Taylor Jay’s journals survive, but this is the only published account.

Ferguson, 1838.

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Two years at Sea: being the narrative of a voyage to the Swan River and Van Dieman's land, during the years 1829, 30, 31.
Two years at Sea: being the narrative of a voyage to the Swan River and Van Dieman's land, during the years 1829, 30, 31.
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