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Sydney; Hordern House; 2001.. First English Edition; Thick Royal 4to; pp. xxii, 670; frontispiece portrait, twenty maps and eight coloured plates, appendix "Historical Notes on Messrs Henri and Louis de Freycinet", bound in original quarter vellum with olive green glazed boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, silk page marker, with its original plain dustjacket, a mint copy. The original publication was limited to 300 copies and was out of print shortly after publication. This copy is one of twenty-eight specially numbered deluxe issues ( within the limitation of 300) on large paper bound in quarter vellum with glazed cloth boards. This copy being Number 1 of 28.
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Reflections on New South Wales. Freycinet's examination of the history and progress of the colony of New South Wales during the first fifty-two years, based on his visit to Port Jackson as commander of the Uranie in 1819, his earlier visit with the Baudin voyage in 1802, his interviews and subsequent correspondence with the colonists themselves, and his close analysis of the published literature to 1839.: Now translated into English for the first time from the original publication of Freycinet's Voyage autour du monde (Paris, 1824-1844) by Thomas Cullity.
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Reflections on New South Wales. Translated by Thomas Cullity
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Sydney: Hordern House, 2001. Large quarto, 310 x 225 mm, xxxii + 670 pp., with a portrait, twenty maps and illustrations and eight colour plates; in mint condition in the original quarter vellum and glazed boards. One of just twenty-eight copies of the special issue on large paper. The original publication sold out in a few days; this de luxe version was prepared in a large quarto format, in a specially commissioned binding by Newbold and Collins. It too sold out rapidly. Publishers sometimes create special issues of their books re-imposed on especially large paper with wide margins. For this special issue using the large proof sheets prepared for the work the bindery retained the largest possible margins, making the page format 310 x 225 mm (as against the standard edition at 245 x 177 mm). The colour plates remain at their actual printed page size, as was usually the case with such issues of colour-plate books in the nineteenth century. The binding is a traditional quarter binding using English…
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