Collins, David, 1756-1810.
An account of the English colony in New South Wales from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801 : 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 ... from the Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King, and an account of a voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass ... abstracted from the journal of Mr. Bass / by Lieutenant-Colonel Collins. 2nd ed. (London : Printed by A. Strahan ... for T. Cadell and W. Davies ..., 1804)
This is one of the “First Fleet Journals”. The first edition published in two volumes (1798-1802) was displayed in our “Early Australian History Exhibition” in 2000. The second edition takes the account up to 1803 and includes a frontispiece portrait of Governor Collins. It is open at a hand-coloured print of the lyre bird.
