Full title: An account of the English colony in New South Wales : with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand / compiled, by permission, from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King by David Collins ... ...

Author/creator: Collins, David, 1756-1810.

Date: 1798-1802..

Call Numbers: M.LIBN/Z/Q991/C, Z/ Q991/ C, Q79/60, Z/ *Q991/ C, MAV/FM4/10597, Q79/61, Z/ C 926/ C, M.Libn/Z/Q991/C, DSM/Q991/C, RB/DQ991/2, RB/DQ991/4, RB/DQ991/3

Record Identifier: 74VKJjPQVb5A

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: 2 v., leaves of plates : ill., maps (1 folded) ; 27 cm.

Publishers: London : Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798-1802.

Access: Copyright status: Out of copyright. Mitchell Library copies To preserve the originals, the facsimile at REF 1/991/89-90 or the microfilm at MAV/FM4/10597 will be issued. Please acknowledge: State Library of New South Wales.

Notes: Vol. 1 has 23 leaves of plates. Vol. 2 includes: "An account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass; by which the existence of a strait separating Van Diemen's Land from the continent of New Holland was ascertained. Abstracted from the journal of Mr. Bass." Digitised Mitchell Library copy at DSM/ Q991/ C (copy 2): has Alfred Lee bookplate; lacks vol. 2. Mitchell Library copy at DSM/ Q991/ C: signed, 'D.S. Mitchell'; also has signature, 'Archd. Liversidge' above title; copy lacks front cover. Mitchell Library copy at Z/ *Q991/ C (Copy *1) Vol. 2 only held. Has grey board binding. Inscribed on t.p. 'J. Grote'. Mitchell Library copy at Z/ C926 has author's inscription on half t.p. Copy of Capt. John Hunter with his autographed signature and date, 1802, on inside of cover. Other ownership mark, armorial bookplate of Gerald C. S. Handcock. Imperfect, lacks frontisp. port of author, map and illus. after p. xvi. Inscription inside cover states that this book was wrecked in the Venerable, with Capt. Hunter, in 1803. Mitchell Library copy at Z/ Q991/ C (Copy 1) Vol. 2 only held. Grey board binding. Has stamp of 'Linnean Society of N.S.W.' Mitchell Library set at DSM/ Z/ Q991/ C (Set 2) has Alfred Lee bookplate and t.p.'s signed by him. Mitchell Library set at DSM/ Z/ Q991/C (Set 1) bound in red leather. Has ms. note inserted about six of the engravings in vol. 1. ; Inscribed, 'D. S. Mitchell' on prelim. pages. Mitchell Library set at M.Libn./ Z/ Q991/ C (Set 3) has bookplates of 'Thomas Tyndall, Jun.' and 'A. A. Dangar'. Mitchell Library set at Z/ *Q991/ C (Set *1) From the Knox Collection. Has bookplate of 'Adrian Knox'. Rare Books copy at: RB/ DQ991/ 4 has stamp: 'The Free Library, Sydney. Bequeathed by Mr Justice Wise, 1865'. In 1865 Mr. Justice Wise presented the N.S.W. Government with his library of Australian books, pamphlets and manuscripts, in trust, to be placed in a Free Public Library. These volumes were held by the Australian Museum until the Free Public Library of New South Wales opened in 1869. Rare Books set at: RB/DQ991/2-3 has signature on flyleaf of J.T. Campbell. Rare Books set at: RB/DQ991/2-3 Has stamp of the "Free Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney". Rare Books sets: Vol. 2 has natural history illustrations hand-coloured.

Citation / references note: Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 263 (vol. 1) Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 350 (vol. 2)

Additional physical form availability note: Online at the State Library of NSW.

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DDC: 994.02 919.3041

MMS ID: 991022292949702626