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Australia.- Callendar (John) A Collection of Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere, 2 vol., vol.1 title facsimile, some foxing and staining, contemporary tree calf, vol.1 rebacked, preserving majority of original gilt backstrip, vol.2 upper cover nearly detached, lower joint splitting, but holding, both vol. corners worn, rubbed, [Renard 271; Sabin 10053; Not in Ferguson, Hill, Spence, Pethterick or Kroepelien], 8vo, Printed for the editor, and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1788. ⁂ A rare edition (not in BL) of Callendar's Terra Australis Cognita, originally issued as three volumes. 'The number of copies of this issue must have been small and it is rarely encountered' (Renard). The final section includes Callendar's essay 'Advantages from the forming of Colonies in the Terra Australis', which has been described as 'the fundamental proposal for the first European settlement of the Southern Continent'.