The Art Of The First Fleet & Other Early Australian Drawings. by SMITH, BERNARD; WHEELER, ALWYNE; Editors

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. illustrations (many colored), index, 256p. Original grey cloth. dj. 34cm.

Yale University Press, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. hardback, quarto, 13 3/4" x 10", mild age-toning else a very good tightly bound copy in a part faded pictorial dust jacket, the text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout, 256pp. A heavy volume which may, if ordered from locations outside the United Kingdom, attract a request for additional postage..

Melbourne: Oxford University Perss, 1988. Hardcover; folio; 256 pages. Beige cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering on spine. Bright and clean pages, many reproductions, some colour, some b+w. In a light blue jacket with art on front. Sunned spine. Moderate shelfwear. In a mylar wrap. NF/VG-. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-.

Yale Univ. Press, 1988.. 256pp. Folio. Original cloth in dustwrapper, b&w and colour illustrations, a fine copy.. First edition.

Oxford University Press Melbourne 1988 . 35.0 x 25.0cms, 254pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good hardcover & dustwrapper (sunned spine) This lavish bicentennial celebration profiles Aboriginal life around Port Jackson, the topographical charts & views; the growth of settlement, the natural history drawings and Smith's essay on 'the artwork'. George Raper, Thomas Watling and the unknown 'Port Jackson Painter' produced most of these drawings

Oxford University Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Spine and part of front jacket sun faded. Covered in mylar since new. Internally Fine

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 256 pages. Clean, bright copy with similar dust jacket. 243 plates, mainly in color, charts. Contains many little-known works of art from the First Fleet landing in New South Wales in 1788, and from the early years of settlement. Chronology, Bibliography. Size: 13 3/4" x 10". Record # 610049

Oxford: Oxford U. P., 1988. 1st edition. Nice copy. folio. hardback with dust jacket 256pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Contains many little-known works of art from the voyage of the first fleet and from the early years of settlement, selected from more than 600 drawings and paintings of Australian subjects held in the British Museum (Natural History)

Oxford University Press Australia, Melbourne, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 256 pp., list of plates, acknowledgements, 4 appendices, notes, bibliography and index. Dark blue coloured endpapers. Illustrated title page, showing an early parrot illustration. The text is illustrated with over 240 illustrations -- some full-page & many coloured. Bone/ecru coloured cloth binding with gilt line down spine gutter edge and gilt writing on the spine. Illustrated dust wrapper, showing a Port Jackson Aborigine, with pale blue background with white and black writing on the front panel and on the spine. Within the book there are many illustrations which are published for the first time. The book provides for the first time a comprehensive visual supplement to the First Fleet journals of Governor Phillip, Surgeon John White, Captain Watkin Tench, Captain John Hunter and Judge-Advocate David Collins. The illustrations include over 70 of the… Read More

Oxford: Oxford U. P., 1988. 1st edition. Nice copy. folio. hardback with dust jacket 256pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Contains many little-known works of art from the voyage of the first fleet and from the early years of settlement, selected from more than 600 drawings and paintings of Australian subjects held in the British Museum (Natural History). Small closed tear to dust jacket o/w nice copy