View of Botany Bay, in New South Wales. [With explanatory text. Copied from an engraving for Portlock's New Collection of Voyages & Travels.]
[Engraved from a Drawing on the Spot.] [n.d., c.1800.] Scarce engraving. Sheet 125 x 210mm (5 x 8¼''). A view of Botany Bay which is full of European ships and a small rowing boat with two aborigines. With explanatory text entitled 'A Concise and Faithful Account of the Rise, Progress, and present State of the English Colony of Botany Bay, or Port Jackson, in New South Wales; and the other Settlements of the Great Southern Pacific Ocean. 8 pages 569-576
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Views in Australia; or New South Wales and Van Diemens Land Delineated by J: Lycett. Scilitoe's Escape, near the North Rooks.
London Publish'd June 1st 1824 by J. Souter 73 St Paul's Church Yard. Entered at Stationer's Hall. Scarce lithographic titlepage. Sheet 225 x 320mm (9 x 12½"). Trimmed into image. The pictorial title page of the incredibly rare book of Australian views painted by a transported forger, Joseph Lycett (c.1774 - c.1825). The title of the book is on a rockface. Abbey 570.
[Ref: 69474] £380.00