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Remarks on board His Majesty's Ship Tamar : in a voyage from England to Port Praia, Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales, and from thence along the coast of Australia, to Port Essington in the Cobourg Peninsula, and thence to Bathurst and Melville Islands, Apsley's Straits, between 27th February & the 13th of November 1824; and continued in the ship Countess of Harcourt, to the Isle of France, to 7th February 1825 / Henry Ennis.

Record no.:

6335

Author:

Ennis, Henry.;
Friend, Donald, 1915-1989, illustrator.;
Griffin, Richard, 1934-1991, editor, book designer.;
Hince, Kenneth, writer of foreword.;
Marsh, Peter, binder.;

Edition:

Limited ed.

Publisher:

Mitcham, Victoria :: Gardner Printing Co. (Vic.) Proprietary Limited.

Year:

1983.

Description:

34 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Ennis, Henry.;
Tamar (Ship);
Voyages and travels.;
Northern Territory.;
Northern Territory - Description and travel - To 1850.;
Northern Territory - Description and travel.;
Port Essington (N.T.) - History.;

Notes:

Cover title: The voyage of the Tamar, 1824. Title on spine: A voyage to New South Wales. Limited edition of 160 copies. Numbers 1-10 are bound in full leather and signed by Donald Friend. Nagle Library copy is number 67. "The text printed here, for the first time in book form, pretty much as it appeared in issues 413 to 417 of 'The Monthly Magazine', published in London from August, 1825." Kenneth Hince (from the Foreword). "Decorations [frontispiece and title page] by Donald Friend. Designed and edited by Richard Griffin." "Typeset and printed in Australia on handmade Australian paper by Gardner Printing Co. (Vic.) Proprietary Limited, 36 Thornton Crescent, Mitcham, Victoria, 3132, and handbound by Peter Marsh at The Dove Bindery."

Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.

Type:

Monograph

ISBN:

0959303014;

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