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COLLINS, David.
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners etc., of the Native Inhabitants of that Country.
Reed (in ass. with RAHS) Sydney 1975 Edited by Brian H. Fletcher. 2 volumes. lii, 649pp, 24 illus& xxi, 312pp, 10 illus. Original cloth, spine of Vol One rubbed with some few vertical creases, light general wear, otherwise a good clean set. With the pictorial papered slip-case (the corners rubbed and one corner in the early stages of splitting). ISBN ***Reprint, with commentary of the most important of the books published by the officers who came with the First Fleet. Collins was the Judge-Advocate of the infant colony, and was later the first Lt-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. The second volume includes George Bass's account of his voyage with Matthew Flinders through the strait which now bears his name, and which established that Van Diemen's Land was an island (chapters XIV--XVI).
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