An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
Subtitle: including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, since the publication of Phillip's voyage : with an abridged account of the new discoveries in the South Seas
By: by Iohn Hunter, Esqr. Post Captain in His Majesty's Navy ; to which is prefixed a life of the author ; and illustrated with a map of the country by Lieut. Dawes and other embellishments.
Contributors: Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814.; King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808.; Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Series: Blake -- no. 740
Publisher: Printed for John Stockdale ...
Published: 1793
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
Subjects: Hunter, John, -- 1738-1821.; Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Early works to 1800.; New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: "The following sheets contain but a small portion of the larger work of Captain Hunter, from which they are abridged ... " -- Advertisement.

"Advertisement" dated July 5, 1793.

This octavo condensation issued some time after the quarto edition published in Jan. 1793.  It has only 4 engravings as opposed to 17, including a newly engraved title-page and William Blake's plate at p. 372, which is unchanged, though now folded to fit new format. Cf. Bentley.

Includes [3] p., at back, of advertisements for Stockdale publications.

Bound in drab paste-boards with paper spine, as issued.

Ferguson no. 153.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 476B

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy has spine lettered in manuscript.