TENCH, Watkin (1759-1833). A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay; with an Account of New South Wales, its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. To Which is Subjoined, a List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson . London: J. Debrett, 1789.
TENCH, Watkin (1759-1833). A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay; with an Account of New South Wales, its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. To Which is Subjoined, a List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson . London: J. Debrett, 1789. 8 o (210 x 121 mm). (Lacking advertisement leaves at end, repaired marginal tear crossing text on I4.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rebacked). Provenance : Claud Rufsell (bookplate). THE EARLIEST AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE SETTLEMENT AT PORT JACKSON FIRST EDITION. Tench was a captain of the British marines and sailed with the first convict fleet to Australia where he stayed four years. Under Governor Arthur Phillip, this voyage visited the Canary Islands, Rio de Janiero, the Cape of Good Hope and founded Sydney in New South Wales. "TENCH WAS THE FIRST TO MOULD AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE INTO A WORK OF CONSCIOUS ART. To a sound eighteenth-century style--he had read Voltaire and Gibbon--he added an interest in the novel, the picturesque and the primitive which foreshadows romanticism. His eye ranged over the convicts and the Aboriginals with a mixture of shrewd common-sense and sympathetic tolerance, and his reaction to the country itself shows the same quality... his writing combines the freshness of immediately recorded experience with elaborate set pieces and reflections." ( DAB ). Ferguson 48; Hill 1685 ("regarded by the best authorities as the most accurate, orderly, vivacious and valuable description of life in the colony in its first years"); Hogwego T22; Wantrup 2 ("It is a rare book in first edition and much sought after, even more so as collectors gradually realize its significance as the earliest printed record of the first settlement").
TENCH, Watkin (1759-1833). A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay; with an Account of New South Wales, its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. To Which is Subjoined, a List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson . London: J. Debrett, 1789.
TENCH, Watkin (1759-1833). A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay; with an Account of New South Wales, its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. To Which is Subjoined, a List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson . London: J. Debrett, 1789. 8 o (210 x 121 mm). (Lacking advertisement leaves at end, repaired marginal tear crossing text on I4.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rebacked). Provenance : Claud Rufsell (bookplate). THE EARLIEST AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE SETTLEMENT AT PORT JACKSON FIRST EDITION. Tench was a captain of the British marines and sailed with the first convict fleet to Australia where he stayed four years. Under Governor Arthur Phillip, this voyage visited the Canary Islands, Rio de Janiero, the Cape of Good Hope and founded Sydney in New South Wales. "TENCH WAS THE FIRST TO MOULD AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE INTO A WORK OF CONSCIOUS ART. To a sound eighteenth-century style--he had read Voltaire and Gibbon--he added an interest in the novel, the picturesque and the primitive which foreshadows romanticism. His eye ranged over the convicts and the Aboriginals with a mixture of shrewd common-sense and sympathetic tolerance, and his reaction to the country itself shows the same quality... his writing combines the freshness of immediately recorded experience with elaborate set pieces and reflections." ( DAB ). Ferguson 48; Hill 1685 ("regarded by the best authorities as the most accurate, orderly, vivacious and valuable description of life in the colony in its first years"); Hogwego T22; Wantrup 2 ("It is a rare book in first edition and much sought after, even more so as collectors gradually realize its significance as the earliest printed record of the first settlement").
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