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Soft Cover. Condizione: Fine. First Thus. 11pp, related books list, glossary, bw ills. Blue stapled card. As new. The story of the 1791 escape from Botany Bay by eleven people, nine convicts, including Mary Bryant, her husband and 2 children, who made the epic voyage from Sydney to Timor. This is the only account written by one of the escapees. Size: 4to.…

Paperback large octavo, very good condition, stapled pamphlet (staples little rusted), card covers, few small black & white drawings (vignettes), minimal edgewear. 26 pp. This letter was first published in July 1789 in the 'Edinburgh Magazine' and was written by Edward Home, a carpenter on the First Fleet ship the 'Charlotte'. After the ship discharged its convicts and stores in Sydney, it and the 'Scarborough' departed for Canton in China to collect a cargo of tea and then return to England. Edward Home records the journey first to New South Wales and then in more detail to Canton. (No. 5 in the 'First Fleet Books' series from Mulini Press. 1 of 2 available copies.).…