journal of a voyage to new south wales, john white, john white, 1800 max

Descrizione libro: pub.J. Debrett, 1790. First edition. Engraved title-page, (i-ii) Dedication, (iii) Advertisement, (v-xi) List of Subscribers, (xiii-xv) List of Plates, (1)-299 Text, 35-page unpaginated Diary of the Winds, Weather, Temperature of the Air, &c. With 65 full-page copper engravings of Animals, Birds, Insects, Plants etc. Large format: [ 29 cm x 23 cm. ]Contemporary full calf gilt, marbled end-papers: the front board, along with the front free end-paper & 1 blank leaf are detached from the main body of the volume; the spine is cracked & very worn, the edges of the boards also very worn. Apart from light sporadic foxing, the contents are in sound condition, with wide margins and all the 65 plates [although some are not bound-in at the points indicated in the List of Plates). With the engraved bookplate of John TetlowNB. This is a heavy item, and will cost more to post than ABE estimates. Codice libro della libreria S151

Descrizione libro: London: J. Debrett 1790., 1790. Codice libro della libreria 19223

Descrizione libro: London. ., 1790. [18],299,[35]pp. plus sixty-five engraved plates. Engraved title. Quarto. Antique calf, decorative blindstamped borders on covers, leather labels. Except for an occasional fox mark, internally clean. Overall a very good copy. White, chief surgeon to the settlement at New South Wales, was also an accomplished naturalist and herein describes the animals he discovered during his exploratory journeys in the new colony. The ornithological and other natural history plates are most attractive. The journal includes an important account of a voyage from London to Rio de Janeiro, to Cape Town, and of other colonial voyages to Norfolk Island. With a subscribers list containing some seven hundred names, speaking for the contemporary interest in the South Pacific in the wake of Cook's voyages. "White's account contains many circumstances omitted by Governor Arthur Phillip and others. The long appendix is very important as it describes the natural history of the new colony; the first major work of this sort" - Hill. Some copies, unlike this example, were issued with the plates colored. FERGUSON 97. WANTRUP 17. HILL 1858. Codice libro della libreria WRCAM 19674

Descrizione libro: London, for J. Debrett, 1790, 1790. Quarto (295 × 235 mm). Recently bound in period-style full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with old black morocco title label, boards with double gilt rules, board edges gilt with a metope and pentaglyph roll. Very occasional light foxing as usual, else clean; a very good copy. Engraved title-page, 65 engraved plates. First edition. White, chief surgeon to the settlement at New South Wales, was also an accomplished naturalist. The ornithological and other natural history plates are most attractive ("non descript" indicates that the flora and fauna were as yet undescribed, rather than bland). The journal includes an important account of a voyage from London to Rio de Janeiro, to Cape Town, and of other colonial voyages to Norfolk Island. With a subscribers list containing some seven hundred names, evidence of the contemporary interest in the South Pacific in the wake of Cook's voyages. "White's account contains many circumstances omitted by Governor Arthur Phillip and others. The long appendix is very important as it describes the natural history of the new colony; the first major work of this sort" (Hill). The work was also issued with the plates coloured. Ferguson 97; Hill, p. 324; Wantrup 17. Codice libro della libreria 29857

Descrizione libro: J. Debrett, London, 1790. hardcover. Condizione libro: very good(-). First. Ferguson 97. Engraved title and 65 hand-colored engraved plates. (18), 299, (35)pp. Thick 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf (quite worn and both hinges broken; title detached and chipped at edges; light foxing to plates, mostly to the margins, and with about 1/3 totally clean). London: J. Debrett, 1790. First edition. Codice libro della libreria 78965

Descrizione libro: J. Debrett, London, 1790. 4to. [ii] (engraved title), [xvi], 300, [36]pp. The superior issue, with the 65 plates hand-coloured; the leaves Hh4 and Kk4 in their cancelled state. Modern full tan morocco. The title-page is quite spotted and with some damp marks around its edges, a little light foxing on a few text pages only, otherwise clean. A few of the plates have some light, mostly marginal spotting, and a few have the titles repeated by hand in pale purple pencil (a young person practising copperplate?) - this person has also made a few annotations on pages 129 & 137; tear across inner top corner of pp255/6. ISBN Ferguson 97, Wantrup 17. *** Please use [Ask Bookseller a Question] option below to confirm availability and get accurate postage quote for this item (the amount quoted is for an 'average' hard-cover book of up to 1kg in weight). Codice libro della libreria 29586

Descrizione libro: Printed for J. Debrett, London, 1790. First edition, special issue with hand coloured plates, quarto, original full calf, rebacked with the original backstrip laid down, pp. [ii], [xvi], 300, [36], with 65 engraved natural history plates with original hand colouring, bound without the two leaves of advertisements found in some copies, the list of plates leaf in the third state (Wantrup p. 75), and the leaves Hh4 and Kk4 are in their cancelled state (Wantrup, 'The Davidson Collection' item 202), [For a comprehensive bibliographic account of White's Journal see E. Charles Nelson's "John White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales (London 1790): bibliographic notes" in "Archives of Natural History" 1998, 25 (1) pp. 109-130], a very good copy with a few leaves slightly damp affected. Provenance: bookplates of Matthew White and Peter Dangar. [Ferguson 97; Wantup 17]. John White (1756?-1832), naval surgeon, entered the navy on 26 June 1778 as third surgeon's mate in H.M.S. Wasp. He received his diploma of the Company of Surgeons on 2 August 1781, and in the next five years his naval service took him as far as the West Indies and India. On 26 June 1786 he became surgeon of the Irresistible, and four months later, on the recommendation of Captain Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, he was appointed chief surgeon of the expedition to establish a convict settlement at Botany Bay. White arrived in Australia in 1788 as Surgeon-General of New South Wales and organised a hospital, but was hampered by the lack of medical supplies. He became interested in the native flora and fauna of the new land and investigated the potential of Australian plants for use as medicine. He observed the olifactory qualities of eucalyptus and distilled eucalyptus oil in 1788. In November 1788 he sent his journal to a London friend, Thomas Wilson; edited probably by Wilson it was published in 1790 as Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales. Accompanying the text were sixty-five engravings illustrating the natural history and products of the colony, drawn in England from specimens sent by White, with descriptions by English specialists. He also sent drawings and possibly specimens for The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (London, 1789). His own book was a big success. A German edition followed, and later there were translations into Swedish and French. His journal describes many Australian species for the first time. Whites account contains many circumstances omitted by Governor Arthur Phillip and others. The long appendix is very important as it describes the natural history of the new colony; the first major work of this sort. White severely disliked Australia, describing it as: "a country and place so forbidding and so hateful as only to merit execration and curses." He applied for leave of absence in 1792, and received it in 1794 and sailed for England in the Daedalus. White reached London in July 1795. He was reluctant to return to New South Wales and in August 1796, faced with the alternative of doing so immediately or of resigning his appointment, he chose to resign. He contemplated publishing a second book and sent a rough manuscript and many drawings to A. B. Lambert, a noted botanist, but the project came to nothing. The manuscript appears to have been lost and the drawings are possibly those which form the so-called Watling Collection now preserved in the British Museum (Natural History). For three years (1796-99) White served in various ships. He was surgeon at Sheerness Navy Yard from December 1799 to September 1803 and at Chatham Yard from September 1803 until he was superannuated in January 1820 at the age of 63. He spent his last years at Brighton and died at Worthing in 1832 aged 75. Codice libro della libreria 13538