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PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814). The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; to which are added, the Journals of Lieut. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall . London: John Stockdale, 1790. 4° (294 x 234mm). Engraved title-page and portrait, 8 folding maps, one hand-coloured, and 46 engraved plates, list of plates bound at end (preliminaries stained or browned, without list of subscribers). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with gilt morocco lettering-piece in one (rubbed, corners bumped, rebacked retaining original lettering-piece). Provenance : George Martyr (engraved calling card pasted onto upper pastedown). SECOND AND BEST EDITION, MUCH EXPANDED with 'The History of New Holland, from its first discovery in MDCXVI, to the present time. And A Discourse on Banishment, by the Right Honourable Lord Auckland. Illustrated with a Chart of New Holland, and a Plan of Botany Bay. MDCCXC'. The foundation work on Australia as a British colony, being the first account of the first official expedition to New South Wales by the eventual first governor of the colony founded as a convict settlement. Reaching Botany Bay in 1788, Phillip declared it unsuitable and went on to Port Jackson, there founding the city named for Thomas Townsend, Viscount Sydney. Phillip embarked on a long voyage of coastal discovery culminating in a full survey of Sydney Harbour, 'one of the finest in the world, in which a thousand sail of the line might ride in perfect security'. It was at Botany Bay that Phillip met with La Perouse who had called there in order to send his latest journal entries to France. This was the last anyone saw of him. Although not actually written by Phillip, the text of this account is taken from his despatches. As well as the long additional appendix added to this second edition, the first appendix contains a 20-page list of convicts carried on the first voyage of 1787. Ferguson 90.