DAVID COLLINS,An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, From Its First Settlement in January 1788 to August 1801: with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners &c. of the Native Inhabitants of That Country. With "An Account of a Voyage Performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass". Second Edition, London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. 4to, full tan calf, the spine with raised bands and gilt stamping. With 34 illustrations including three hand-colored natural history illustrations, two maps (one fold-out), and 9 engraved plates from drawings by the convict artist Thomas Watling Estimate $700-900
front board off, some foxing, some shadowing and discoloration on text pages facing illustrations, generally very good