| Description |
100 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 32 cm |
| Series |
Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK4340 ANL
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| Contents |
The introduction. -- The early life of Matthew Flinders. -- Naval influence on the early history of Australia. -- George Bass. -- Bass and Franklin. -- Consideration of Bass's boat voyage. -- Bass's journal of the whaleboat voyage. -- The voyage of the Sydney Cove. -- The shipwreck of the Sydney Cove. -- The adventures of the Sydney Cove's longboat party. -- Coal and trade. -- Foreword to Flinders' narrative. -- Flinders' narrative. -- Circumnavigation of Australia in the Investigator. -- Flinders' account of the wreck of the Porpoise and the Cato. -- Flinders' voyage in the Cumberland. -- Flinders' captivity, release, publications, and death |
| Notes |
"Matthew Flinders' Narrative has been designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, on Arnold's mould-made paper in 16 pt. Aldine 'Bembo" type, with 'Centaur' initials, designed by Bruce Rogers, and 'Lyons' capitals, designed by Louis Perrin, upon the model of Latin inscriptions, in 1846. Composition and presswork ... at the Chiswick Press, has been finished on the 30th day of October, 1946 ... The Edition is limited to 750 copies. Nos: 1-100 are bound in full green morocco" -- Colophon |
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Copied from the original manuscript in the Public Library of Victoria which is entitled : Narrative of an expedition to Furneaux Islands on the coast of New South Wales, in the Port Jackson colonial schooner Francis / by Mattw. Flinders |
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Library's NK4340 copy is no. 171/750 of the limited edition. ANL |
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Library's RB copy is no. 575/750 of the limited edition; from the collection of Sir Brian Hone. ANL |
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Library's SR copy is no. 190/750 of the limited edition. ANL |
| Subject |
Bass, George, -1812?
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Bass, George, 1771-1803.
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Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814.
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Francis (Ship)
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Sydney Cove (Ship)
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Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
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| Author |
Buckland Wright, John, 1897-1954.
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Hone, B. W. (Brian William), 1907- former owner
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Rawson, Geoffrey. d. 1969
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Sandford, Christopher.
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Chiswick Press.
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Golden Cockerel Press.
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| LC no. |
47029436 |
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