GILBERT, Thomas. Voyage from New South Wales to Canton in the Year 1788, with Views of the Islands discovered. London: printed by George Stafford for J. Debrett, 1789.
GILBERT, Thomas. Voyage from New South Wales to Canton in the Year 1788, with Views of the Islands discovered. London: printed by George Stafford for J. Debrett, 1789. 4 o (264 x 218 mm). Engraved title vignette, 4 engraved folding plates. (Lacking the half-title and advertisments, some light staining to plates.) Modern half calf antique preserving contemporary boards. FIRST EDITION. "The Charlotte and the Scarborough (Captain Marshall) had, before they left England, been chartered by the Honourable the East India Company, to proceed from New South Wales (after having landed convicts and marines) to Canton, in order to bring home a cargo of tea on their account. The author records his opinion that, though the country about Botany Bay did not by any means answer the sanguine expectations, which had been formed of it, from the better soil at Port Jackson and that still farther nothward and nearer the line, every convenience necessary for the colony may, with due cultivation, be, in time, procured. On this voyage the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, as well as others, were discovered and named" (Ferguson). Gilbert indicates in his introduction that his book is intended as a companion to the journal of John White (see lot 527) as White deals with the outward journey and Gilbert with the the voyage from Australia to Canton. Ferguson 38; Hill 702; Wantrup 18.
GILBERT, Thomas. Voyage from New South Wales to Canton in the Year 1788, with Views of the Islands discovered. London: printed by George Stafford for J. Debrett, 1789.
GILBERT, Thomas. Voyage from New South Wales to Canton in the Year 1788, with Views of the Islands discovered. London: printed by George Stafford for J. Debrett, 1789. 4 o (264 x 218 mm). Engraved title vignette, 4 engraved folding plates. (Lacking the half-title and advertisments, some light staining to plates.) Modern half calf antique preserving contemporary boards. FIRST EDITION. "The Charlotte and the Scarborough (Captain Marshall) had, before they left England, been chartered by the Honourable the East India Company, to proceed from New South Wales (after having landed convicts and marines) to Canton, in order to bring home a cargo of tea on their account. The author records his opinion that, though the country about Botany Bay did not by any means answer the sanguine expectations, which had been formed of it, from the better soil at Port Jackson and that still farther nothward and nearer the line, every convenience necessary for the colony may, with due cultivation, be, in time, procured. On this voyage the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, as well as others, were discovered and named" (Ferguson). Gilbert indicates in his introduction that his book is intended as a companion to the journal of John White (see lot 527) as White deals with the outward journey and Gilbert with the the voyage from Australia to Canton. Ferguson 38; Hill 702; Wantrup 18.
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