THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO BOTANY BAY, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island;

London: John Stockdale, 1789. compiled from Authentic Papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments, to which are added, the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Captain Marshall; with an Account of their New Discoveries. Embellished with fifty-five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from Actual Surveys, & the plans & views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. Pp. [iv]+6+[ii](errata)+[xii]+ [viii](list of subscribers)+x+298+lxxiv+[2](advertisements), engraved frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, plus 53 engraved plates or charts (7 folding or double page, several with the original tissue guards), appendices; demy 4to; contemporary half calf, the spine with gilt lettered black leather title label and gilt decorated compartments, marbled papered boards, edges slightly rubbed; some light offsetting of plates, a few leaves slightly creased, a couple of small edge splits, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; John Stockdale, London, 1789. First edition. F.47; Wantrup 5. *The first official account of the First Fleet, compiled by the publisher, from Phillip's journal and reports. The title page is in the first state, with Henry Webber's name to the Wedgwood medallion, and the caption to the plate facing page 150 is wulpine opossum (later corrected to vulpine). The plate facing page 106 is captioned Kangooroo), and page 122 has the uncorrected mis-numbering 221. The plates include birds, animals, fish, portraits, maps and charts of Port Jackson, Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands, and the first plan of the Sydney Cove settlement (drawn in July 1788 by Lieutenant William Dawes and Captain John Hunter). The List of Convicts at the end gives names, place and date of convictions, and length of sentences. 'The importance of Stockdale's Phillip must not be underestimated. It offers a full record of events both on land and on sea in the first months of the settlement, detailing the early expeditions of Phillip and the other officers into the interior around Botany Bay and Port Jackson, the earliest coastal voyages of discovery and important discoveries in the surrounding seas' [Wantrup, pages 63-4].